School planning area

Celbridge

Name: Primary school enrolment in the Celbridge planning area
Creator: Department of Education

8 primary schools and 3,000 pupils in 2025/26, in County Kildare.

Pupils in 2025/26: 3,000; −67 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: −3.5%; 3,109 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 8; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 24.41; Average school size: 375.0

Trends in Celbridge

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 Kildare, schools with no planning area had 1.6% of pupils in 2015/16, 5.5% in 2005/06 and 24.2% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

3,000

−67 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

5 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

375.0

140.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

24.41

−0.64 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. 292 in 2025/26, −73 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

8 schools with figures for both years

3fell by 10% or more

2within 10%

3grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 2Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 25% or more · 2

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: 24.41
Mainstream classes: 121
Classes of 30 or more: 1
Schools with a class of 30+: 1

Teachers

Teachers in the 8 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: 121; Up 32 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 18%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 179; Estimate: 121 class teachers, 8 principals and deputies, 43 special education and 7 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 163; 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

1 special school in the Celbridge planning area, and the special classes in its 8 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools

Pupils in special schools: 96; In 1 school, up from 64 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26: 8; In 5 of 8 schools. 5 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 11; In 6 schools: 3 new classes, 1 school with its first
Autism classes: 8; 100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 5
2021/22 5
2022/23 6
2023/24 6
2024/25 7
2025/26 8
2026/27 11

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special schools in the Celbridge planning area
Special school	Pupils	Since 2015/16	Teaching posts	SNAs
St Raphaels Special SCHCelbridge · Moderate general learning disability	96	+50.0%	16	48

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

Schools

8 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
Aghards N SCelbridge	19794V	660	−5.4%	25	26.40	28	0
Scoil na MainistreachCelbridge	18551N	455	−16.8%	19	23.32	28	0
North Kildare Educate Together NSCelbridge	19995I	432	+57.1%	16	26.25	28	0
Straffan N SNaas	18644U	401	+30.2%	16	24.69	29	0
Scoil Naomh PadraigCelbridge	20257C	374	−3.4%	16	23.38	28	0
St Annes National SchoolStraffan	17674B	329	+20.5%	14	23.07	30	1
Scoil Naomh BridCelbridge	16566Q	240	−51.8%	10	23.00	27	0
Primrose Hill NSCelbridge	13819E	109	−11.4%	5	21.80	27	0