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School planning area

Doon–Cappamore

15 primary schools and 1,560 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Limerick and Tipperary.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,560
−2 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+0.3%
1,555 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
15
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.79
Average school size: 104.0

By county

This planning area crosses county lines. Select a county to see its part of the area.

Change over
Limerick 11 1,130
−12.3%
Tipperary 4 430
+61.7%

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 Limerick and Tipperary, schools with no planning area had 3.1% of pupils in 2015/16, 8.2% in 2005/06 and 34.5% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,560

−2 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

15

10 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

104.0

96.8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.79

+0.56 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. 175 in 2025/26, −8 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

14 schools with figures for both years

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

7fell by 10% or more
2within 10%
5grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 3Down 10 to 25% · 4Within 10% · 2Up 10 to 25% · 3Up 25% or more · 2

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 83 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
21.79
Mainstream classes
68
Classes of 30 or more
5
Schools with a class of 30+
4

Teachers

Teachers in the 15 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
68
Up 12 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 17%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 118
Estimate: 68 class teachers, 6 principals and deputies, 30 special education and 14 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
88
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 1
0 schools gained a class teacher, 1 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 Doon–Cappamore planning area, and the special classes in the 15 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
14
In 7 of 15 schools. 7 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
15
In 8 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
14
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Doon–Cappamore planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2020/21 7
  • 2021/22 8
  • 2022/23 11
  • 2023/24 12
  • 2024/25 14
  • 2025/26 14
  • 2026/27 15

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

15 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
S N AilbheBrittas 07857D Limerick 187
+15.4%
7 24.14 33 1
Caherline N SCaherconlish 15226K Limerick 183
+2.2%
7 24.43 35 2
S N Ma RuaLimerick 18600A Limerick 142
−18.9%
6 23.67 35 1
S N na hAilleAn Mhóin Ard 17799V Tipperary 128
+40.7%
5 23.20 27 0
Cappawhite N SCappawhite 14791N Tipperary 126
+21.2%
5 22.80 25 0
Doon Convent N SDoon 14625T Limerick 116
0.0%
5 21.40 27 0
Nicker N SPallasgreen 14231V Limerick 113
−15.0%
5 22.60 28 0
Bilboa N SchoolCappamore 15692Q Limerick 95
−18.1%
4 23.75 29 0
Annacarty N SAnnacarty 18528S Tipperary 93
+31.0%
4 23.25 30 1
Rossmore National SchoolCashel 20504Q Tipperary 83 – 4 20.75 26 0
Scoil ChaitríonaCappamore 20233L Limerick 82
+15.5%
4 17.75 24 0
S N Toinn an TairbhCappamore 18367U Limerick 79
−43.6%
4 19.75 21 0
Scoil na mBraithreDoon 16713D Limerick 56
−22.2%
3 18.67 23 0
Cloverfield N SDromkeen 15700M Limerick 42
−40.0%
3 14.00 22 0
Scoil na mBearnanPallasagreen 16439J Limerick 35
−36.4%
2 15.50 18 0