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School planning area

Kanturk

8 primary schools and 1,057 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,057
−13 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+60.2%
660 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
8
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.98
Average school size: 132.1

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 Cork, schools with no planning area had 3.2% of pupils in 2015/16, 8.7% in 2005/06 and 29.9% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,057

−13 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

8

7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

132.1

96.9 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.98

−0.82 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. 117 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

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

7 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
1within 10%
2grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 3Within 10% · 1Up 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 372 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
21.98
Mainstream classes
47
Classes of 30 or more
4
Schools with a class of 30+
2

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
47
Up 24 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 94%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 70
Estimate: 47 class teachers, 3 principals and deputies, 16 special education and 4 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
38
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 Kanturk 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
4
In 1 of 8 schools. 3 in 2022/23
Allocated for 2026/27
6
In 3 schools: 2 new classes, 2 schools with their first
Autism classes
4
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2022/23

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

  • 2022/23 3
  • 2023/24 3
  • 2024/25 4
  • 2025/26 4
  • 2026/27 6

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
Scoil Naomh PádraigKanturk 20559S 372 – 15 23.20 27 0
Ballyhass Mixed N SCecilstown 04953H 223
+28.2%
9 24.78 32 1
Banteer N SBanteer 02803B 190
+9.2%
8 23.75 31 3
Freemount Mixed N SCharleville 06295F 88
+14.3%
4 22.00 25 0
Scoil Naomh Eoin BaisteKanturk 19342J 67
−27.2%
3 22.33 25 0
S N FhursaBanteer 18316D 51
−23.9%
3 17.00 20 0
Lios MaighirNewmarket 17300G 42
−10.6%
3 14.00 16 0
Dromagh Mixed N SMallow 15380U 24
−17.2%
2 12.00 15 0