School planning area

Killaloe

Name: Primary school enrolment in the Killaloe planning area
Creator: Department of Education

7 primary schools and 1,024 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Clare and Tipperary.

Pupils in 2025/26: 1,024; −18 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: −11.7%; 1,160 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 7; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 22.34; Average school size: 146.3

By county

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

Change over


Tipperary	4	716	−12.7%
Clare	3	308	−9.4%

Trends in Killaloe

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 Clare and Tipperary, schools with no planning area had 2.1% of pupils in 2015/16, 6.6% in 2005/06 and 24.8% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,024

−18 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

146.3

97.7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

22.34

−0.55 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. 115 in 2025/26, +7 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

4fell by 10% or more

3within 10%

0grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 3Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 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: 22.34
Mainstream classes: 44
Classes of 30 or more: 2
Schools with a class of 30+: 2

Teachers

Teachers in the 7 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: 44; Up 9 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 13%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 74; Estimate: 44 class teachers, 2 principals and deputies, 21 special education and 7 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 65; 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 Killaloe planning area, and the special classes in the 7 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: 7; In 4 of 7 schools. 5 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 6; In 3 schools
Autism classes: 6; 86% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 5
2021/22 5
2022/23 5
2023/24 5
2024/25 7
2025/26 7
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

7 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 Baile an AthaBallina	18207V	Tipperary	404	−6.0%	16	24.19	28	0
Boher N SKillaloe PO	09190G	Tipperary	113	+7.6%	5	21.40	29	0
S N Baile an DroichidO'Brien's Bridge	18467B	Clare	107	−14.4%	5	21.40	30	1
Birdhill N SKillaloe	13991Q	Tipperary	104	−36.2%	5	18.40	22	0
Killaloe Boys N SKillaloe	15370R	Clare	104	−10.3%	5	20.80	27	0
Mercy Convent KillaloeKillaloe	18624O	Clare	97	−2.0%	4	22.75	31	1
S N Baile na hInseBirdhill	17296S	Tipperary	95	−22.1%	4	23.75	27	0