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School planning area

Dromcollogher

6 primary schools and 421 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Cork and Limerick.

Pupils in 2025/26
421
−10 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−9.9%
467 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
6
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
18.95
Average school size: 70.2

By county

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

Change over
Limerick 4 310
−10.7%
Cork 2 111
−7.5%

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 Cork and Limerick, schools with no planning area had 3.1% of pupils in 2015/16, 8.9% in 2005/06 and 31.2% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

421

−10 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

6

5 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

70.2

102.6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

18.95

−0.64 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. 60 in 2025/26, +12 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

6 schools with figures for both years

2fell by 10% or more
3within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 25% or more · 1

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
18.95
Mainstream classes
22
Classes of 30 or more
0
Schools with a class of 30+
0

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
22
Up 3 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 7%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 32
Estimate: 22 class teachers, 0 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
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

0 special schools in the Dromcollogher 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
Allocated for 2026/27
2
In 2 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
1
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2025/26

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

  • 2025/26 1
  • 2026/27 2

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
Scoil MhuireCharleville 18260C Limerick 141
−8.4%
6 23.50 29 0
S N Ath an MhuillinnMilford 17829E Cork 78
−19.6%
4 18.50 24 0
St JosephsCharleville 19966B Limerick 74
−22.9%
4 18.50 22 0
S N FiodhnachKilmallock 04469C Limerick 73
0.0%
4 18.25 21 0
Tullylease Mixed N SCharleville 09815U Cork 33
+43.5%
2 16.50 17 0
Scoil Naomh IdeBallagh 16896O Limerick 22
−8.3%
2 11.00 12 0