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School planning area

Graignamanagh

4 primary schools and 297 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Carlow and Kilkenny.

Pupils in 2025/26
297
−2 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−6.3%
317 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
4
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
19.71
Average school size: 74.2

By county

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

Change over
Kilkenny 2 216
−12.9%
Carlow 2 81
+17.4%

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 Counties Carlow and Kilkenny, schools with no planning area had 2.3% of pupils in 2015/16, 7.6% in 2005/06 and 26.7% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

297

−2 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

4

4 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

74.2

137.2 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

19.71

−0.15 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. 37 in 2025/26, +9 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

4 schools with figures for both years

1fell by 10% or more
2within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 2Up 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
19.71
Mainstream classes
14
Classes of 30 or more
0
Schools with a class of 30+
0

Teachers

Teachers in the 4 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
14
No change since 2006/07, while pupils fell 9%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 24
Estimate: 14 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 6 special education and 4 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
18
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 Graignamanagh planning area, and the special classes in the 4 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
4
In 2 of 4 schools. 2 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
4
In 2 schools
Autism classes
4
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 2
  • 2021/22 2
  • 2022/23 2
  • 2023/24 3
  • 2024/25 4
  • 2025/26 4
  • 2026/27 4

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

4 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 Muire gan SmalGraigenamanagh 17224Q Kilkenny 148
−8.6%
6 21.67 25 0
Graig na Manach BuacGraignamanagh 16311G Kilkenny 68
−20.9%
3 21.67 26 0
Scoil N Moling-GlynnSaint Mulllins 17330P Carlow 51
−7.3%
3 17.00 20 0
St Brendans N Svia Kilkenny 17481N Carlow 30
+114.3%
2 15.00 15 0