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School planning area

Carndonagh

21 primary schools and 2,200 pupils in 2025/26, in County Donegal.

Pupils in 2025/26
2,200
+2 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−5.2%
2,320 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
21
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
22.19
Average school size: 104.8

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 Donegal, schools with no planning area had 0.3% of pupils in 2015/16, 2.1% in 2005/06 and 24.2% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

2,200

+2 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

21

17 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

104.8

91.8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

22.19

+0.61 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. 264 in 2025/26, +27 on 2024/25.

Girls and boys

From 1976/77: earlier files don't split every school's pupils into girls and boys.

Irish-medium schools

Pupils in schools that teach all subjects through Irish (1 school today). 75 pupils in 2025/26, 3.4% of the area's pupils, against 3.3% in 2015/16. Each school counts under its current classification for every year.

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

21 schools with figures for both years

10fell by 10% or more
5within 10%
6grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 8Within 10% · 5Up 10 to 25% · 4Up 25% or more · 2

Grown most

Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26

  1. 1 Scoil Treasa NaofaMalin, Co. Donegal 81 → 137 +69.1%
  2. 2 Naomh BodainCuldaff, Co. Donegal 77 → 108 +40.3%
  3. 3 Scoil Naomh ColmchilleCarndonagh, Co. Donegal 149 → 186 +24.8%
  4. 4 Scoil CholmcilleMoville, Co. Donegal 108 → 133 +23.1%
  5. 5 Scoil MhuireGleneely, Co. Donegal 107 → 118 +10.3%

Fallen most

Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26

  1. 1 Scoil Chroí Naofa, CarndomhnachCarndonagh, Co. Donegal 164 → 124 −24.4%
  2. 2 Scoil PhadraigClonmany, Co. Donegal 153 → 121 −20.9%
  3. 3 Scoil CholmchilleMalin, Co. Donegal 97 → 77 −20.6%
  4. 4 Scoil Naomh FionanQuigley's Point, Co. Donegal 250 → 199 −20.4%
  5. 5 S N na gCluainteClonmany, Co. Donegal 119 → 96 −19.3%

Ranked by percentage change. Only schools with 50 or more pupils in 2015/16 are ranked, leaving out any still filling their classes then, because a few pupils make a big percentage in a small or new school. An amalgamation or a new school nearby can also explain a big rise or fall.

Class sizes

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

Average class size
22.19
Mainstream classes
98
Classes of 30 or more
8
Schools with a class of 30+
6

Teachers

Teachers in the 21 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
98
Up 9 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 5%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 150
Estimate: 98 class teachers, 7 principals and deputies, 40 special education and 5 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
131
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 2
0 schools gained a class teacher, 2 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 Carndonagh planning area, and the special classes in the 21 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
5
In 3 of 21 schools. 1 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
5
In 3 schools
Autism classes
5
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 1
  • 2021/22 1
  • 2022/23 1
  • 2023/24 3
  • 2024/25 4
  • 2025/26 5
  • 2026/27 5

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

21 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
Scoil EoghanMoville 20054L 212
−15.5%
9 23.56 32 2
Scoil Naomh FionanQuigley's Point 19959E 199
−20.4%
8 24.88 32 1
Scoil Naomh ColmchilleCarndonagh 16880W 186
+24.8%
7 26.57 30 1
Scoil Naomh PadraigCarndonagh 18605K 163
−1.2%
7 22.86 28 0
Scoil Treasa NaofaMalin 17721H 137
+69.1%
5 25.00 28 0
Scoil CholmcilleMoville 18791K 133
+23.1%
6 22.17 32 2
St Francis' National SchoolLifford 16642G 132
−5.7%
5 24.40 28 0
Scoil Chroí Naofa, CarndomhnachCarndonagh 16821G 124
−24.4%
7 17.71 26 0
Scoil PhadraigClonmany 18520C 121
−20.9%
5 24.20 28 0
Scoil MhuireGleneely 18517N 118
+10.3%
5 23.60 32 1
Naomh BodainCuldaff 19614Q 108
+40.3%
4 27.00 31 1
S N na gCluainteClonmany 17180W 96
−19.3%
4 24.00 28 0
Naomh BridhidCarndonagh 16836T 92
−9.8%
4 23.00 28 0
Scoil CholmchilleMalin 14631O 77
−20.6%
4 19.25 25 0
Gaelscoil Chois FeabhaillBun an Phobail 20144M 75
−1.3%
4 18.75 20 0
Scoil Naomh MhuireMalin 18446Q 57
−14.9%
3 19.00 20 0
Scoil Naomh Treasa CLifford 16108J 52
−5.5%
3 17.33 20 0
S N an Iorball RiabaighMalin Head 07626H 40
−18.4%
2 20.00 25 0
S N DonaighCarndonagh 18939Q 33
+17.9%
2 16.50 17 0
Moville N SMoville 15763N 32
−33.3%
2 16.00 17 0
Glentogher Con N SCarndonagh 16611S 13
−61.8%
2 6.50 7 0