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School planning area

Kilbeggan

6 primary schools and 553 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Offaly and Westmeath.

Pupils in 2025/26
553
−10 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−2.6%
568 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
6
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.64
Average school size: 92.2

By county

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

Change over
Westmeath 5 538
−0.9%
Offaly 1 15
−40.0%

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 Offaly and Westmeath, schools with no planning area had 0.0% of pupils in 2015/16, 4.1% in 2005/06 and 14.6% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

553

−10 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

6

1 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

92.2

78.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.64

+0.22 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. 62 in 2025/26, −13 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

6 schools with figures for both years

2fell by 10% or more
3within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 25% or more · 0

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
21.64
Mainstream classes
25
Classes of 30 or more
3
Schools with a class of 30+
2

Teachers

Teachers in the 6 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
25
Up 4 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 20%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 36
Estimate: 25 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 8 special education and 2 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
31
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 1
0 schools 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 Kilbeggan planning area, and the special classes in the 6 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 1 of 6 schools. 1 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
2
In 1 school
Autism classes
2
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 1
  • 2021/22 1
  • 2022/23 1
  • 2023/24 1
  • 2024/25 1
  • 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

6 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 an Chlochair Cill BheaganKilbeggan 20063M Westmeath 226
−6.2%
9 23.78 30 2
Streamstown Mixed N SStreamstown 15291V Westmeath 107
−2.7%
4 26.75 31 1
Ballinagore Mixed N SKilbeggan 16340N Westmeath 97
+21.2%
4 24.25 29 0
Mhichil Naofa N SCastletown Geoghegan 17182D Westmeath 81
−1.2%
4 20.25 27 0
S N Aodha NaofaKilbeggan 17882I Westmeath 27
−10.0%
2 13.50 18 0
S N Peadar agus PolMoate 18068K Offaly 15
−40.0%
2 7.50 9 0