School planning area

Coachford

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

12 primary schools and 1,434 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.

Pupils in 2025/26: 1,434; +1 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: +1.9%; 1,407 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 12; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 22.13; Average school size: 119.5

Trends in Coachford

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

1,434

+1 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

12 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

119.5

88.2 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

22.13

+0.37 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. 187 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

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

12 schools with figures for both years

3fell by 10% or more

6within 10%

3grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 6Up 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: 22.13
Mainstream classes: 61
Classes of 30 or more: 9
Schools with a class of 30+: 4

Teachers

Teachers in the 12 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: 61; Up 14 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 27%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 103; Estimate: 61 class teachers, 5 principals and deputies, 23 special education and 14 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 80; 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 Coachford planning area, and the special classes in the 12 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: 14; In 6 of 12 schools. 8 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 17; In 8 schools: 3 new classes, 2 schools with their first
Autism classes: 13; 93% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 8
2021/22 9
2022/23 10
2023/24 13
2024/25 14
2025/26 14
2026/27 17

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

12 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
S N BhiorainnBerrings	04186N	200	−2.9%	8	21.25	26	0
Coachford N SCoachford	14022M	169	+64.1%	6	27.17	34	3
Cloughduv N SCrookstown	13234W	166	+31.7%	6	27.67	35	3
S N Naomh LachtinDonoughmore	17602W	162	+1.2%	7	21.43	26	0
S N Naomh MhuireOvens	18487H	149	−0.7%	6	21.83	28	0
Canovee Mixed N SMacroom	12292I	145	−9.9%	6	23.17	32	2
Dripsey N SDripsey	17245B	100	−9.9%	4	22.00	27	0
S N Achadh BolgAghabullogue	17515E	100	+13.6%	5	20.00	26	0
S N Cill BonainAherla	17338I	97	+2.1%	4	24.25	31	1
Rusheen NSCoachford	12395S	74	−14.9%	4	18.50	22	0
Rylane N SRylane	16335U	54	−29.9%	3	18.00	22	0
Ballyvongane Mixed N SCoachford	04578H	18	−58.1%	2	9.00	9	0