School planning area

Carrignavar

3 primary schools and 767 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.

Pupils in 2025/26
767
−37 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−15.4%
907 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
3
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.82
Average school size: 255.7

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 Cork, schools with no planning area had 3.2% of pupils in 2015/16, 8.7% in 2005/06 and 29.9% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

767

−37 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

3

3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

255.7

143.7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.82

−1.36 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.

Junior infants

Pupils starting school each year. Class-by-class figures start in 2020/21. 87 in 2025/26, −1 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

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

3 schools with figures for both years

3fell by 10% or more
0within 10%
0grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 0Up 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
21.82
Mainstream classes
33
Classes of 30 or more
0
Schools with a class of 30+
0

Teachers

Teachers in the 3 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
33
Up 10 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 22%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 63
Estimate: 33 class teachers, 4 principals and deputies, 18 special education and 8 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
58
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 1
1 school gained a class teacher, 1 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 Carrignavar planning area, and the special classes in the 3 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
8
In 3 of 3 schools. 5 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
8
In 3 schools
Autism classes
7
88% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

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

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

3 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 an Athar TadhgCarraig na bhFear 19415K 317
−10.2%
14 20.50 28 0
S N MhuireCork 17360B 316
−14.4%
13 23.85 28 0
S N MhuireGlenville 17848I 134
−27.6%
6 20.50 29 0