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School planning area

Dungarvan

11 primary schools and 1,953 pupils in 2025/26, in County Waterford.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,953
−80 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+2.5%
1,906 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
11
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.38
Average school size: 177.5

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 County Waterford, schools with no planning area had 1.5% of pupils in 2015/16, 2.0% in 2005/06 and 45.6% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,953

−80 on 2024/25

1976/772025/26

Schools

11

8 in 1976/77

1976/772025/26

Average pupils per school

177.5

133.0 in 1976/77

1976/772025/26

Average class size

21.38

−0.69 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. 196 in 2025/26, −35 on 2024/25.

Girls and boys

Each school year.

Irish-medium schools

Pupils in schools that teach all subjects through Irish (1 school today). 310 pupils in 2025/26, 15.9% of the area's pupils, against 13.1% 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

11 schools with figures for both years

4fell by 10% or more
3within 10%
4grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 3Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 3Up 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
21.38
Mainstream classes
89
Classes of 30 or more
12
Schools with a class of 30+
5

Teachers

Teachers in the 11 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
89
Up 19 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 14%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 134
Estimate: 89 class teachers, 7 principals and deputies, 29 special education and 9 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
102
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
2 / 1
2 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

1 special school in the Dungarvan planning area, and the special classes in its 11 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
85
In 1 school, up from 49 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
9
In 5 of 11 schools. 6 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
9
In 5 schools
Autism classes
8
89% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 6
  • 2021/22 7
  • 2022/23 7
  • 2023/24 8
  • 2024/25 8
  • 2025/26 9
  • 2026/27 9

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
St Johns Special SCHDungarvan · Mild general learning disability 85
+73.5%
16 36

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

Schools

11 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
S N Dun na MainistreachDungarvan 18094L 455
−3.8%
18 24.61 33 5
Scoil GearbhainDún Garbhán 19814B 310
+24.0%
13 23.85 32 3
St Marys NSDungarvan 19953P 237
−20.7%
15 15.20 20 0
S N an Garrain BhainDungarvan 17159I 225
+13.6%
8 27.38 30 2
Scoil Naomh SeosamhDungarvan 16732H 151
+24.8%
8 18.88 21 0
Glenbeg N SDungarvan 15318P 143
+3.6%
6 21.83 24 0
Our Lady of Mercy N SStradbally 13020D 110
+124.5%
5 22.00 27 0
Scoil Naomh GobnaitDungarbhan 18488J 107
−24.6%
5 19.20 30 1
S N Cill RosantaKilmacthomas 01711O 102
−14.3%
5 20.40 23 0
S N an Carraig LiathDungarvan 16950R 98
+3.2%
4 24.50 31 1
S N Cill BhriainClonmel 17643N 15
−31.8%
2 7.50 9 0