School planning area

Clonakilty

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

13 primary schools and 1,766 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.

Pupils in 2025/26: 1,766; −33 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: +4.6%; 1,688 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 13; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 21.96; Average school size: 135.8

Trends in Clonakilty

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

1,766

−33 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

11 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

135.8

105.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.96

−0.25 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. 195 in 2025/26, −26 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). 388 pupils in 2025/26, 22.0% of the area's pupils, against 18.2% 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

13 schools with figures for both years

4fell by 10% or more

5within 10%

4grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 5Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 25% or more · 3

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: 21.96
Mainstream classes: 76
Classes of 30 or more: 5
Schools with a class of 30+: 4

Teachers

Teachers in the 13 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: 76; Up 15 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 16%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 129; Estimate: 76 class teachers, 5 principals and deputies, 32 special education and 16 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 99; The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25: 0 / 1; 0 schools 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 Clonakilty planning area, and the special classes in the 13 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: 16; In 7 of 13 schools. 10 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 16; In 7 schools
Autism classes: 13; 81% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 10
2021/22 10
2022/23 12
2023/24 14
2024/25 16
2025/26 16
2026/27 16

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

13 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
Gaelscoil Mhichíl Uí ChoileáinCloch na gCoillte	20006A	388	+26.4%	16	22.75	28	0
Scoil na mBuachailliClonakilty	20022V	235	−13.0%	10	22.30	28	0
S N Cnoc SceachClonakilty	17152R	207	+43.8%	8	22.12	27	0
St Joseph's Girls National SchoolClonakilty	07651G	192	−13.1%	8	22.50	29	0
Barryroe NSBandon	19249T	182	+1.7%	7	25.00	36	1
Timoleague N STimoleague	12456M	150	−5.1%	6	25.00	31	2
S N an AirdClonakilty	12147W	111	+70.8%	5	22.20	34	1
Lisavaird MXD N SClonakilty	18659K	70	+18.6%	3	23.33	32	1
S N Achadh EochailleEnniskeane	10243I	66	+1.5%	3	22.00	23	0
S N ClogachTimoleague	18444M	55	+3.8%	3	16.33	21	0
Kilgariffe N SClonakilty	10499U	45	−6.2%	3	15.00	19	0
Scoil DhairbhreClonakilty	13125R	36	−46.3%	2	15.00	17	0
Kilcolman N SEnniskeane	16259H	29	−44.2%	2	14.50	16	0