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School planning area

Cahir

11 primary schools and 1,479 pupils in 2025/26, in County Tipperary.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,479
−57 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+27.4%
1,161 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
11
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.75
Average school size: 134.5

Each year counts the schools in this planning area today, plus any that closed from 2023/24. Dotted lines bridge 1983/84 to 1992/93. 1974/75 is left out because that year's source file is missing five counties.

Earlier years are incomplete

The Department's files only record planning areas from 2023/24, so schools that closed or amalgamated before then aren't counted in any area. The further back you go, the more pupils are missing, and an amalgamation can look like a sudden rise. Across County Tipperary, schools with no planning area had 3.2% of pupils in 2015/16, 7.0% in 2005/06 and 21.8% in 1976/77. Known data issues

Pupils

1,479

−57 on 2024/25

1976/772025/26

Schools

11

9 in 1976/77

1976/772025/26

Average pupils per school

134.5

101.6 in 1976/77

1976/772025/26

Average class size

21.75

−0.93 on 2024/25

2006/072025/26

Pupils in these schools

Junior infants, girls and boys, and Irish-medium schools over time, for the same schools as the trends above.

Area figures by year (CSV) Each school by year (CSV)

Junior infants

Pupils starting school each year. Class-by-class figures start in 2020/21. 143 in 2025/26, −27 on 2024/25.

Girls and boys

Each school year.

Irish-medium schools

No school in this area teaches all subjects through Irish.

Growing and falling since 2015/16

Each school's change in pupils over 10 years, from 2015/16 to 2025/26. A change of 10% or more either way counts as growing or falling.

Every school's change

10 schools with figures for both years

Schools still filling their classes in 2015/16, and schools opened since, are listed separately.

5fell by 10% or more
2within 10%
3grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 3Within 10% · 2Up 10 to 25% · 2Up 25% or more · 1

Sort the table below by the change column to see which schools grew or fell most.

Newer schools

1 school still filling its classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 411 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.

Class sizes

Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.

Average class size
21.75
Mainstream classes
65
Classes of 30 or more
4
Schools with a class of 30+
2

Teachers

Teachers in the 11 mainstream primary schools here, 2006/07 to 2025/26. Class teachers are counted every year; all teaching posts where they're known.

How we count teachers
Class teachers in 2025/26
65
Up 25 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 53%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 107
Estimate: 65 class teachers, 5 principals and deputies, 26 special education and 11 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
62
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 0
0 schools gained a class teacher, 0 lost one

Class teachers since 2006/07

One for each mainstream class, every school year

Special schools and special classes

0 special schools in the Cahir planning area, and the special classes in the 11 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
0
No special school here
Special classes in 2025/26
11
In 6 of 11 schools. 5 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
11
In 6 schools
Autism classes
11
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Cahir planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2020/21 5
  • 2021/22 5
  • 2022/23 7
  • 2023/24 8
  • 2024/25 11
  • 2025/26 11
  • 2026/27 11

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Sources: Department of Education enrolment lists; NCSE special class lists and special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).

Schools

11 schools, largest first. A dash in the change column means the school had no pupils recorded in that year, usually because it opened later or took a new roll number after an amalgamation.

Change over

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Roll number
Bunscoil na CathrachCahir 20560D 411 – 16 24.94 32 3
Ardfinnan N SClonmel 16077B 244
+6.6%
10 23.20 30 1
Ballylooby N SCahir 18582B 148
−17.3%
6 23.83 29 0
S N an GrainseachClonmel 18062V 137
−30.8%
6 20.83 23 0
Scoil MhuireClonmel 18538V 111
−8.3%
5 19.80 28 0
Scoil Mhuire Gan SmálNew Inn 13404V 111
−11.2%
5 22.20 24 0
S N Chuirt DoighteCahir 17783G 92
+61.4%
4 20.00 25 0
Tankerstown N STipperary Town 19305D 83
−14.4%
4 20.75 26 0
Clogheen Central N SClogheen 19540N 81
+14.1%
4 20.25 26 0
New Inn B N SCashel 05144C 48
+11.6%
3 16.00 19 0
Ballydrehid N SCahir 10533R 13
−68.3%
2 6.50 8 0