School planning area

Drumshanbo

Name: Primary school enrolment in the Drumshanbo planning area
Creator: Department of Education

6 primary schools and 349 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Leitrim and Roscommon.

Pupils in 2025/26: 349; −21 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: +1.7%; 343 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 6; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 17.47; Average school size: 58.2

By county

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

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Leitrim	1	243	+13.6%
Roscommon	5	106	−17.8%

Trends in Drumshanbo

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 Leitrim and Roscommon, schools with no planning area had 10.4% of pupils in 2015/16, 15.8% in 2005/06 and 38.3% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

349

−21 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

58.2

87.8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

17.47

−0.13 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. 41 in 2025/26, −6 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

4fell by 10% or more

0within 10%

2grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 4Down 10 to 25% · 0Within 10% · 0Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 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: 17.47
Mainstream classes: 19
Classes of 30 or more: 1
Schools with a class of 30+: 1

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: 19; Up 3 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 14%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 30; Estimate: 19 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 7 special education and 3 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 24; 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 Drumshanbo 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: 3; In 1 of 6 schools. 2 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 3; In 1 school
Autism classes: 3; 100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

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

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
St Patricks NSDrumshanbo	19423J	Leitrim	243	+13.6%	9	25.11	33	1
S N Cill RonainBoyle	06100K	Roscommon	37	+76.2%	2	18.50	20	0
Strabaggan N SCara Droma Ruisg	19257S	Roscommon	25	−26.5%	2	12.50	16	0
S N Naomh PadraigBoyle	13978B	Roscommon	22	−29.0%	2	11.00	12	0
S N Lasair NaofaCarrick on Shannon	17622F	Roscommon	13	−40.9%	2	6.50	8	0
S N Naomh MhuireCarrick-on-Shannon	17709R	Roscommon	9	−57.1%	2	4.50	6	0