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Donabate

4 primary schools and 1,283 pupils in 2025/26, in County Dublin.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,283
+4 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−1.6%
1,304 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
4
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
24.25
Average school size: 320.8

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

1,283

+4 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

4

2 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

320.8

150.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

24.25

+0.12 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. 159 in 2025/26, −15 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

Pupils in schools that teach all subjects through Irish (1 school today). 123 pupils in 2025/26, 9.6% of the area's pupils, against 0.0% in 2015/16. Each school counts under its current classification for every year.

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

3 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%
0grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 1Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 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 123 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
24.25
Mainstream classes
52
Classes of 30 or more
0
Schools with a class of 30+
0

Teachers

Teachers in the 4 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
52
Up 16 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 27%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 84
Estimate: 52 class teachers, 3 principals and deputies, 25 special education and 4 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
70
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 0
0 schools 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

1 special school in the Donabate planning area, and the special classes in its 4 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
5
In 1 school, down from 10 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
5
In 3 of 4 schools. 2 in 2021/22
Allocated for 2026/27
5
In 3 schools
Autism classes
5
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2021/22

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

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

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
Crannog Nua Special SchoolPortrane 5
−50.0%
– –

Sources: Department of Education enrolment lists; NCSE special class lists and special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).

Schools

4 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
Donabate/Portrane Educate Together NSDonabate 20161M 414
−16.0%
16 25.12 29 0
S N C Naomh PadraigDonabate 18412W 376
−12.1%
16 23.50 28 0
St Patricks Boys National SchoolDonabate 16267G 370
−3.4%
15 24.27 28 0
Gaelscoil na MaraDomhnach Bat 20530R 123 – 5 23.80 27 0