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School planning area

Greystones

8 primary schools and 3,194 pupils in 2025/26, in County Wicklow.

Pupils in 2025/26
3,194
−48 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+6.9%
2,987 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
8
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
23.77
Average school size: 399.2

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 Wicklow, schools with no planning area had 1.4% of pupils in 2015/16, 14.8% in 2005/06 and 22.6% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

3,194

−48 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

8

4 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

399.2

259.2 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

23.77

−0.46 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. 374 in 2025/26, +10 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). 227 pupils in 2025/26, 7.1% of the area's pupils, against 12.2% 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

7 schools with figures for both years

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

3fell by 10% or more
3within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 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 412 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
23.77
Mainstream classes
131
Classes of 30 or more
1
Schools with a class of 30+
1

Teachers

Teachers in the 8 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
131
Up 67 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 78%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 200
Estimate: 131 class teachers, 9 principals and deputies, 47 special education and 13 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
154
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 1
1 school 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 Greystones planning area, and the special classes in the 8 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
13
In 7 of 8 schools. 5 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
15
In 7 schools: 2 new classes
Autism classes
10
77% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 5
  • 2021/22 7
  • 2022/23 7
  • 2023/24 9
  • 2024/25 11
  • 2025/26 13
  • 2026/27 15

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

8 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 Laurences N SGreystones 19573F 666
+3.9%
28 23.18 28 0
Scoil Naomh CaoimhghinGreystones 17720F 459
−12.9%
19 23.47 30 1
Greystones Educate Together National SchoolGreystones 20300A 440
+3.0%
18 23.78 27 0
Greystones Community NSGreystones 20473I 412
+1,960.0%
16 24.62 27 0
St Brigids SchoolGreystones 16573N 396
−22.4%
16 24.38 29 0
St Patrick's National SchoolGreystones 12554M 385
+39.0%
16 23.31 27 0
Gaelscoil na gCloch LiathNa Clocha Liatha 20301C 227
−37.8%
10 22.50 28 0
Delgany N SDelgany 13679O 209
−5.0%
8 26.12 29 0