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School planning area

Coola Cross

7 primary schools and 535 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Leitrim and Sligo.

Pupils in 2025/26
535
+18 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+24.7%
429 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
7
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.40
Average school size: 76.4

By county

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

Change over
Sligo 6 479
+30.2%
Leitrim 1 56
−8.2%

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 Leitrim and Sligo, schools with no planning area had 3.2% of pupils in 2015/16, 9.7% in 2005/06 and 45.1% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

535

+18 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

7

1 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

76.4

51.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.40

−0.14 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. 76 in 2025/26, +14 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

6 schools with figures for both years

Schools still filling their classes in 2015/16, and schools opened since, are listed separately.

0fell by 10% or more
4within 10%
2grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 0Within 10% · 4Up 10 to 25% · 2Up 25% or more · 0

Sort the table below by the change column to see which schools grew or fell most.

Newer schools

1 school still filling its classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 97 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.

Class sizes

Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.

Average class size
21.40
Mainstream classes
25
Classes of 30 or more
1
Schools with a class of 30+
1

Teachers

Teachers in the 7 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
25
Up 8 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 45%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 34
Estimate: 25 class teachers, 0 principals and deputies, 9 special education and 0 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
28
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 0
1 school gained a class teacher, 0 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 Coola Cross planning area, and the special classes in the 7 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
Allocated for 2026/27
1
In 1 school: 1 new class, 1 school with its first

Special classes since 2026/27

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

  • 2026/27 1

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

7 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
Sooey N SBoyle 18053U Sligo 112
−4.3%
5 22.40 27 0
Ardkeerin N SRiverstown 15217J Sligo 111
0.0%
5 22.20 30 1
S.N. Naomh AilbheVia Boyle 20575Q Sligo 97 – 4 24.25 28 0
Ballintogher N SBallintogher 02013S Sligo 87
+7.4%
4 21.75 25 0
St Josephs N SDromahair 16130C Leitrim 56
−8.2%
3 18.67 24 0
Kilross N SBallintogher 16044J Sligo 42
+23.5%
2 21.00 24 0
Taunagh National SchoolRiverstown 13196R Sligo 30
+20.0%
2 15.00 16 0