School planning area

Cootehill

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

12 primary schools and 1,263 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Cavan and Monaghan.

Pupils in 2025/26: 1,263; −36 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: +6.2%; 1,189 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 12; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 20.64; Average school size: 105.2

By county

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Cavan	7	717	+9.6%
Monaghan	5	546	+2.1%

Trends in Cootehill

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 Cavan and Monaghan, schools with no planning area had 0.0% of pupils in 2015/16, 2.6% in 2005/06 and 24.2% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,263

−36 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

105.2

64.6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

20.64

+0.08 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. 151 in 2025/26, +7 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

2fell by 10% or more

7within 10%

3grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 0Within 10% · 7Up 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: 20.64
Mainstream classes: 59
Classes of 30 or more: 5
Schools with a class of 30+: 5

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: 59; Up 19 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 42%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 90; Estimate: 59 class teachers, 4 principals and deputies, 19 special education and 8 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 68; The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25: 0 / 2; 0 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 Cootehill planning area, and the special classes in its 12 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools

Pupils in special schools: 182; In 1 school, up from 156 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26: 8; In 3 of 12 schools. 6 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 9; In 4 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes: 6; 75% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 6
2021/22 6
2022/23 6
2023/24 7
2024/25 8
2025/26 8
2026/27 9

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special schools in the Cootehill planning area
Special school	Pupils	Since 2015/16	Teaching posts	SNAs
Holy Family S SCootehill · Moderate general learning disability	182	+16.7%	30	67

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.

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	Roll number
Naomh Oliver PlunkettLoughmourne	19469K	Monaghan	255	+15.4%	9	25.22	34	1
St Michaels National SchoolCootehill	20277I	Cavan	232	+6.9%	13	17.85	24	0
LattonCastleblayney	19434O	Monaghan	161	−7.5%	6	26.83	30	1
S N Doire na CeiseCootehill	17601U	Cavan	143	+8.3%	6	22.83	30	1
Darley N SCootehill	12312L	Cavan	130	+35.4%	5	23.80	31	1
Kill N SCootehill	19285A	Cavan	126	+65.8%	5	25.20	30	1
Scoil MhuireRockcorry	10429W	Monaghan	76	−8.4%	4	19.00	23	0
S N PadraigCootehill	18340A	Cavan	51	−7.3%	3	17.00	20	0
Rockcorry N SRockcorry	06028F	Monaghan	34	−2.9%	2	17.00	22	0
St Mary's N.S.Ballyhaise	16520P	Cavan	31	−34.0%	2	15.50	16	0
Drumcorrin N SDrum	19703P	Monaghan	20	−9.1%	2	10.00	11	0
Drung No 2 NSDrung	19921C	Cavan	4	−87.1%	2	2.00	2	0