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School planning area

Dunshaughlin

7 primary schools and 1,550 pupils in 2025/26, in County Meath.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,550
+60 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+30.9%
1,184 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
7
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
25.21
Average school size: 221.4

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 Meath, schools with no planning area had 0.1% of pupils in 2015/16, 0.3% in 2005/06 and 12.7% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,550

+60 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

7

5 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

221.4

147.2 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

25.21

+0.14 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. 209 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

Pupils in schools that teach all subjects through Irish (1 school today). 222 pupils in 2025/26, 14.3% of the area's pupils, against 17.7% 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

6 schools with figures for both years

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

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

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 168 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
25.21
Mainstream classes
61
Classes of 30 or more
5
Schools with a class of 30+
4

Teachers

Teachers in the 7 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
61
Up 16 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 36%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 87
Estimate: 61 class teachers, 4 principals and deputies, 20 special education and 2 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
60
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 0
1 school 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 Dunshaughlin planning area, and the special classes in the 7 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
2
In 2 of 7 schools. 2 in 2021/22
Allocated for 2026/27
2
In 2 schools
Autism classes
2
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2021/22

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

  • 2021/22 2
  • 2022/23 2
  • 2023/24 2
  • 2024/25 2
  • 2025/26 2
  • 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

7 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 Seachnaill NaofaDunshaughlin 17930Q 622
+26.9%
24 25.92 28 0
Scoil na RitheDún Seachlainn 19867W 222
+6.2%
8 27.00 31 1
S N ColmcilleTara 17521W 211
+0.5%
8 26.38 32 1
Dunshaughlin Community National SchoolDunshaughlin 20521Q 168 – 7 24.00 30 2
S N Cul an MhuilinnDrumree 17312N 119
+26.6%
5 22.60 31 1
Scoil Nais Mhuire NaofaDunsany 17742P 113
+7.6%
5 22.60 25 0
S N Naomh SeosamhDunsany 16790V 95
+25.0%
4 23.75 28 0