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School planning area

Killarney

19 primary schools and 3,113 pupils in 2025/26, in County Kerry.

Pupils in 2025/26
3,113
−130 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−4.6%
3,263 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
19
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.78
Average school size: 163.8

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 Kerry, schools with no planning area had 0.1% of pupils in 2015/16, 7.7% in 2005/06 and 27.3% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

3,113

−130 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

19

16 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

163.8

112.2 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.78

−1.04 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. 345 in 2025/26, +11 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). 245 pupils in 2025/26, 7.9% of the area's pupils, against 6.9% 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

19 schools with figures for both years

6fell by 10% or more
6within 10%
7grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 5Within 10% · 6Up 10 to 25% · 4Up 25% or more · 3

Grown most

Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26

  1. 1 Scoil BhrídeKillarney, Co. Kerry 108 → 129 +19.4%
  2. 2 Faha National SchoolKillarney, Co. Kerry 188 → 224 +19.1%
  3. 3 Scoil Barr DubhHeadford, Co. Kerry 80 → 95 +18.8%
  4. 4 Coolick National SchoolKillarney, Co. Kerry 100 → 113 +13.0%
  5. 5 Gaelscoil FaithleannCill Airne, Co. Kerry 226 → 245 +8.4%

Fallen most

Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26

  1. 1 S N Cill CuiminKillarney, Co. Kerry 169 → 113 −33.1%
  2. 2 St Olivers NSKillarney, Co. Kerry 776 → 625 −19.5%
  3. 3 S N an ChuilleanaigKillarney, Co. Kerry 179 → 152 −15.1%
  4. 4 Scoil Atha na mBlathKillarney, Co. Kerry 69 → 59 −14.5%
  5. 5 Holy Cross Primary SchoolKillarney, Co. Kerry 401 → 345 −14.0%

Ranked by percentage change. Only schools with 50 or more pupils in 2015/16 are ranked, leaving out any still filling their classes then, because a few pupils make a big percentage in a small or new school. An amalgamation or a new school nearby can also explain a big rise or fall.

Class sizes

Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.

Average class size
21.78
Mainstream classes
137
Classes of 30 or more
11
Schools with a class of 30+
6

Teachers

Teachers in the 19 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
137
Up 34 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 18%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 231
Estimate: 137 class teachers, 9 principals and deputies, 64 special education and 21 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
194
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 Killarney planning area, and the special classes in the 19 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
21
In 8 of 19 schools. 15 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
23
In 9 schools: 2 new classes, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
15
71% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 15
  • 2021/22 18
  • 2022/23 18
  • 2023/24 19
  • 2024/25 19
  • 2025/26 21
  • 2026/27 23

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

19 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 Olivers NSKillarney 19512I 625
−19.5%
24 23.62 27 0
Holy Cross Primary SchoolKillarney 19487M 345
−14.0%
16 20.06 25 0
Lissivigeen MXD N SKillarney 08791E 269
−1.1%
11 23.91 32 2
S N an FhossaKillarney 17012B 246
−2.0%
11 21.36 31 2
Gaelscoil FaithleannCill Airne 19941I 245
+8.4%
10 24.50 35 3
Faha National SchoolKillarney 11405N 224
+19.1%
9 24.44 32 2
Scoil Mhuire na MainistreachKillarney 18049G 167
0.0%
8 19.38 26 0
S N an ChuilleanaigKillarney 17710C 152
−15.1%
8 17.50 25 0
Scoil BhrídeKillarney 10050U 129
+19.4%
5 25.80 29 0
Coolick National SchoolKillarney 10014Q 113
+13.0%
5 22.60 30 1
S N Cill CuiminKillarney 17231N 113
−33.1%
5 22.60 28 0
Scoil Barr DubhHeadford 05970M 95
+18.8%
4 23.75 31 1
Loughguitane N SKillarney 10049M 90
0.0%
5 18.00 24 0
Knockanes MXD N SKillarney 13150Q 69
0.0%
3 22.33 25 0
Scoil Atha na mBlathKillarney 11363A 59
−14.5%
3 19.67 20 0
Tiernaboul N SKillarney 15644F 57
+67.6%
3 19.00 24 0
Two Mile Community National SchoolKillarney 17365L 46
+170.6%
3 15.33 19 0
Glenflesk N SKillarney 09302O 35
+40.0%
2 17.50 26 0
Raheen National SchoolKillarney 09304S 34
−19.0%
2 17.00 18 0