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School planning area

Donaghmede–Howth–D13

16 primary schools and 4,927 pupils in 2025/26, in County Dublin.

Pupils in 2025/26
4,927
−75 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+6.8%
4,614 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
16
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
23.54
Average school size: 307.9

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

4,927

−75 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

16

6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

307.9

441.7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

23.54

−0.41 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. 520 in 2025/26, −30 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). 84 pupils in 2025/26, 1.7% 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

14 schools with figures for both years

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

3fell by 10% or more
8within 10%
3grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 8Up 10 to 25% · 2Up 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 424 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
23.54
Mainstream classes
205
Classes of 30 or more
13
Schools with a class of 30+
5

Teachers

Teachers in the 16 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
205
Up 97 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 66%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 320
Estimate: 205 class teachers, 15 principals and deputies, 82 special education and 18 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
244
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
3 / 4
3 schools gained a class teacher, 4 lost one

Class teachers since 2006/07

One for each mainstream class, every school year

Special schools and special classes

2 special schools in the Donaghmede–Howth–D13 planning area, and the special classes in its 16 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
72
In 2 schools, up from 53 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
18
In 9 of 16 schools. 10 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
19
In 9 schools: 1 new class
Autism classes
16
89% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Donaghmede–Howth–D13 planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2020/21 10
  • 2021/22 11
  • 2022/23 13
  • 2023/24 15
  • 2024/25 15
  • 2025/26 18
  • 2026/27 19

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
St Michaels House Special SchoolDublin 13 · Physical disability 56
+5.7%
11 39
Belmayne Community Special SchoolDonaghmede 16 – 5 10

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

Schools

16 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
St. Francis of Assisi National SchoolDublin 13 20304I 434
+11.3%
16 27.12 30 3
St Fintans NSDublin 13 19549I 431
−8.3%
18 23.94 30 5
Belmayne Educate Together National SchoolDublin 13 20308Q 413
+4.8%
16 25.81 28 0
St Laurence's National SchoolDublin 13 20437E 413
−5.1%
17 24.29 29 0
Holy Trinity Sen N SDublin 13 19406J 397
+14.4%
16 24.06 26 0
S N Muire agus IosefDublin 13 19533Q 396
−7.9%
16 24.75 27 0
Scoil BhrideDublin 13 19473B 365
−3.9%
16 22.00 25 0
Scoil Mhuire MXDHowth 18080A 349
−3.9%
15 22.87 34 3
Stapolin Educate Together National SchoolDublin 13 20519G 340 – 15 21.40 27 0
Mhuire Iosef JuniorDublin 13 19393D 302
−30.1%
14 21.57 25 0
St Pauls Sen NSDublin 13 19618B 236
0.0%
9 25.56 30 1
Scoil Naomh ColmcilleDublin 13 19611K 217
+77.9%
9 21.11 25 0
St Pauls Junior National SchoolDublin 13 19471U 206
−12.0%
9 22.22 28 0
Burrow N SDublin 13 09642P 195
−11.0%
8 24.38 29 0
St Kevins Junior N SDublin 13 19538D 149
−8.0%
7 19.57 24 0
Gaelscoil Ghráinne MhaolDublin 13 20538K 84 – 4 21.00 31 1