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School planning area

Crossmolina

6 primary schools and 482 pupils in 2025/26, in County Mayo.

Pupils in 2025/26
482
−17 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+22.6%
393 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
6
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
19.88
Average school size: 80.3

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 Mayo, schools with no planning area had 9.0% of pupils in 2015/16, 17.7% in 2005/06 and 49.2% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

482

−17 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

6

3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

80.3

79.7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

19.88

−1.60 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. 52 in 2025/26, −5 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

4 schools with figures for both years

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

2fell by 10% or more
1within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 1Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 25% or more · 1

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

Newer schools

2 schools still filling their classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 76 pupils between them. They aren’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
19.88
Mainstream classes
24
Classes of 30 or more
1
Schools with a class of 30+
1

Teachers

Teachers in the 6 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
24
Up 9 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 51%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 35
Estimate: 24 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 9 special education and 1 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 Crossmolina planning area, and the special classes in the 6 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
1
In 1 of 6 schools. 1 in 2021/22
Allocated for 2026/27
1
In 1 school
Autism classes
1
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2021/22

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

  • 2021/22 1
  • 2022/23 1
  • 2023/24 1
  • 2024/25 1
  • 2025/26 1
  • 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

6 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
Crossmolina N.S.Crossmolina 20125I 235
+25.0%
9 25.56 30 1
S N Leath ArdanBeal Atha Na Fheadha 16911H 76
+1.3%
4 19.00 21 0
Kilmurry NSCrossmolina 20513R 65 – 4 16.25 19 0
Rathbane N SBallina 15996N 57
−10.9%
3 19.00 23 0
Cormaic NfaBallina 13225V 38
−19.1%
2 19.00 23 0
Scoil NéifinnBallina 20431P 11
−42.1%
2 5.50 7 0