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Clonmel

14 primary schools and 2,965 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Tipperary and Waterford.

Pupils in 2025/26
2,965
+101 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−1.5%
3,010 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
14
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
23.47
Average school size: 211.8

By county

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

Change over
Tipperary 13 2,810
+0.2%
Waterford 1 155
−25.1%

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 Tipperary and Waterford, schools with no planning area had 2.4% of pupils in 2015/16, 4.9% in 2005/06 and 45.6% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

2,965

+101 on 2024/25

1976/772025/26

Schools

14

12 in 1976/77

1976/772025/26

Average pupils per school

211.8

272.8 in 1976/77

1976/772025/26

Average class size

23.47

+0.49 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. 352 in 2025/26, +43 on 2024/25.

Girls and boys

Each school year.

Irish-medium schools

Pupils in schools that teach all subjects through Irish (1 school today). 315 pupils in 2025/26, 10.6% of the area's pupils, against 7.0% 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

3fell by 10% or more
7within 10%
4grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 7Up 10 to 25% · 2Up 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
23.47
Mainstream classes
124
Classes of 30 or more
10
Schools with a class of 30+
6

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
124
Up 11 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 3%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 194
Estimate: 124 class teachers, 9 principals and deputies, 52 special education and 9 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
170
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
3 / 2
3 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

1 special school in the Clonmel planning area, and the special classes in its 14 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
12
In 1 school, down from 14 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
9
In 5 of 14 schools. 6 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
10
In 6 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
5
56% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 6
  • 2021/22 6
  • 2022/23 6
  • 2023/24 6
  • 2024/25 7
  • 2025/26 9
  • 2026/27 10

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
Coláiste Shliabh na mBanClonmel 12
−14.3%
– –

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
SN Mhuire na nAingealMary Street 12349L Tipperary 407
−7.9%
16 25.44 29 0
Powerstown N SClonmel 17779P Tipperary 338
−3.4%
14 23.79 30 1
St Oliver Plunketts NSClonmel 19645E Tipperary 334
−8.5%
16 20.88 26 0
Gaelscoil Chluain MealaCluain Meala 20007C Tipperary 315
+48.6%
13 24.23 27 0
St Peter and PaulClonmel 16729S Tipperary 304
−2.9%
12 24.83 38 3
Presentation Primary SchoolClonmel 12180U Tipperary 266
−6.0%
11 22.36 31 2
St Marys N SClonmel 16728Q Tipperary 222
−4.3%
8 26.25 34 2
S N CleireachainClonmel 17486A Tipperary 202
+12.2%
8 23.75 29 0
Ballymacarberry N SVia Clonmel 19345P Waterford 155
−25.1%
7 22.14 30 1
S N Rath ChaomhghinClonmel 17542H Tipperary 143
+17.2%
6 23.83 34 1
Lisronagh N SClonmel 06789H Tipperary 106
+7.1%
4 26.50 29 0
S N Cill SiolainClonmel 18486F Tipperary 90
−30.8%
4 22.50 29 0
St Marys Parochial SchoolClonmel 17332T Tipperary 52
+52.9%
3 17.33 24 0
Killurney N SClonmel 13678M Tipperary 31
−24.4%
2 15.50 19 0