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School planning area

Goatstown–Stillorgan–DLR

10 primary schools and 3,249 pupils in 2025/26, in County Dublin.

Pupils in 2025/26
3,249
−49 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−1.1%
3,285 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
10
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
24.58
Average school size: 324.9

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 Dublin, schools with no planning area had 1.5% of pupils in 2015/16, 5.3% in 2005/06 and 36.8% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

3,249

−49 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

10

7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

324.9

454.6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

24.58

+0.19 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. 360 in 2025/26, −15 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). 130 pupils in 2025/26, 4.0% of the area's pupils, against 0.0% 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

9 schools with figures for both years

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

4fell by 10% or more
3within 10%
2grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 3Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 25% or more · 1

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 130 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
24.58
Mainstream classes
132
Classes of 30 or more
7
Schools with a class of 30+
3

Teachers

Teachers in the 10 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
132
Up 35 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 24%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 187
Estimate: 132 class teachers, 9 principals and deputies, 45 special education and 1 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
170
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 4
1 school gained a class teacher, 4 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 Goatstown–Stillorgan–DLR planning area, and the special classes in the 10 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 10 schools. 1 in 2022/23
Allocated for 2026/27
3
In 2 schools: 2 new classes, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
1
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2022/23

In the Goatstown–Stillorgan–DLR planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2022/23 1
  • 2023/24 1
  • 2024/25 1
  • 2025/26 1
  • 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

10 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 Olaf's National SchoolDublin 16 19319O 591
+30.5%
23 25.70 27 0
S N Cnoc AinbhilStillorgan 17979A 434
−6.9%
18 24.11 31 4
Our lady's Grove Primary SchoolDublin 14 19374W 409
−6.2%
16 25.56 29 0
S N Naomh LorcanStillorgan 16893I 390
−12.2%
16 24.38 29 0
Taney N SDublin 14 15284B 384
−12.3%
16 24.00 28 0
St Raphaelas N SBlackrock 17470I 375
−20.4%
15 25.00 31 2
Holy Cross N SDublin 14 19904C 260
+11.6%
11 23.64 28 0
Our Ladys N SDublin 14 19922E 176
−28.2%
8 21.38 27 0
Gaelscoil LaigheanBaile Átha Cliath 14 20518E 130 – 5 26.00 33 1
St Brigids N SStillorgan 16794G 100
+1.0%
4 25.00 27 0