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School planning area

Carrick-on-Suir

14 primary schools and 1,643 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Kilkenny, Tipperary and Waterford.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,643
−36 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−19.9%
2,052 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
14
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
20.09
Average school size: 117.4

By county

This planning area crosses county lines. Select a county to see its part of the area.

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Tipperary 7 747
−21.5%
Waterford 4 504
−16.7%
Kilkenny 3 392
−20.8%

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 Counties Kilkenny, Tipperary and Waterford, schools with no planning area had 2.8% of pupils in 2015/16, 6.7% in 2005/06 and 38.4% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,643

−36 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

14

3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

117.4

110.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

20.09

+0.04 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. 164 in 2025/26, −16 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). 114 pupils in 2025/26, 6.9% of the area's pupils, against 8.6% 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

14 schools with figures for both years

12fell by 10% or more
2within 10%
0grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 3Down 10 to 25% · 9Within 10% · 2Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 25% or more · 0

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

Class sizes

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

Average class size
20.09
Mainstream classes
80
Classes of 30 or more
2
Schools with a class of 30+
2

Teachers

Teachers in the 14 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
80
Up 3 since 2006/07, while pupils fell 12%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 121
Estimate: 80 class teachers, 5 principals and deputies, 30 special education and 6 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
116
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 3
1 school gained a class teacher, 3 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 Carrick-on-Suir planning area, and the special classes in the 14 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
6
In 3 of 14 schools. 2 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
9
In 5 schools: 3 new classes, 2 schools with their first
Autism classes
6
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Carrick-on-Suir planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2020/21 2
  • 2021/22 2
  • 2022/23 3
  • 2023/24 4
  • 2024/25 6
  • 2025/26 6
  • 2026/27 9

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

14 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.

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Roll number
Clochar na ToirbhirteCarrick-on-Suir 11872V Tipperary 281
−8.8%
15 18.73 30 1
S N Baile an PhiullPiltown 17357M Kilkenny 254
−23.5%
11 22.00 27 0
Portlaw N.S.Portlaw 19970P Waterford 214
−21.0%
11 18.36 26 0
S N Mhuire na mBraithreCarrick-on-Suir 16725K Tipperary 122
−22.3%
6 20.33 25 0
Rathgormack B N SCarrick-on-Suir 15963V Waterford 118
−10.6%
5 23.60 31 1
Gaelscoil Charraig na SiuireCarraig na Siúire 20085W Tipperary 114
−35.6%
5 20.40 27 0
Carrickbeg N SCarick-on-Suir 11969N Waterford 106
−12.4%
5 21.20 25 0
Owning National SchoolPiltown 16430O Kilkenny 100
+4.2%
4 25.00 26 0
Ballyneale N SCarrick-on-Suir 18085K Tipperary 77
−18.9%
4 19.25 22 0
Clonea NSCarrick-on-Suir 19443P Waterford 66
−18.5%
3 22.00 27 0
S N Naomh PadraigClonmel 18326G Tipperary 55
−23.6%
3 18.33 22 0
Upper Newtown N SCarrick-on-Suir 09967U Tipperary 51
−15.0%
3 17.00 19 0
Grangemockler NSCarrick-On-Suir 18501V Tipperary 47
−43.4%
3 15.67 21 0
Templeorum N Svia Carrick-on-Suir 19267V Kilkenny 38
−43.3%
2 19.00 23 0