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School planning area

Darndale–D17

5 primary schools and 998 pupils in 2025/26, in County Dublin.

Pupils in 2025/26
998
−6 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−11.1%
1,123 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
5
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
16.89
Average school size: 199.6

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 Dublin, schools with no planning area had 1.5% of pupils in 2015/16, 5.3% in 2005/06 and 36.8% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

998

−6 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

5

2 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

199.6

558.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

16.89

+0.65 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. 112 in 2025/26, No change 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

5 schools with figures for both years

3fell by 10% or more
1within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 3Within 10% · 1Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 25% or more · 0

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
16.89
Mainstream classes
56
Classes of 30 or more
0
Schools with a class of 30+
0

Teachers

Teachers in the 5 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
56
Down 13 since 2006/07, while pupils fell 26%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 97
Estimate: 56 class teachers, 4 principals and deputies, 32 special education and 5 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
92
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 3
0 schools gained a class teacher, 3 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 Darndale–D17 planning area, and the special classes in the 5 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
5
In 4 of 5 schools. 2 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
6
In 5 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
4
80% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Darndale–D17 planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2020/21 2
  • 2021/22 3
  • 2022/23 4
  • 2023/24 4
  • 2024/25 4
  • 2025/26 5
  • 2026/27 6

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

5 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
St Josephs NSDublin 17 19913D 294
−14.5%
15 18.80 25 0
St Francis Senior N SDublin 17 19668Q 198
+15.1%
10 17.60 21 0
Our Lady Immac Sen N SDublin 17 19524P 182
−9.0%
11 16.00 20 0
St Francis Junior National SchoolDublin 17 17104G 165
−15.8%
10 15.90 20 0
Darndale NS JuniorDublin 17 19454U 159
−24.6%
10 15.30 18 0