School planning area

Killorglin–Milltown

14 primary schools and 1,575 pupils in 2025/26, in County Kerry.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,575
−20 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+5.4%
1,495 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
14
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.07
Average school size: 112.5

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

1,575

−20 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

14

13 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

112.5

101.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.07

+0.27 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.

Junior infants

Pupils starting school each year. Class-by-class figures start in 2020/21. 197 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). 43 pupils in 2025/26, 2.7% of the area's pupils, against 1.9% 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

14 schools with figures for both years

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

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
21.07
Mainstream classes
72
Classes of 30 or more
1
Schools with a class of 30+
1

Teachers

Teachers in the 14 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
72
Up 14 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 20%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 114
Estimate: 72 class teachers, 4 principals and deputies, 28 special education and 10 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
87
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 3
0 schools gained a class teacher, 3 lost one

Class teachers since 2006/07

One for each mainstream class, every school year

Special schools and special classes

1 special school in the Killorglin–Milltown planning area, and the special classes in its 14 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
73
In 1 school, up from 51 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
10
In 5 of 14 schools. 2 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
11
In 5 schools: 1 new class
Autism classes
7
70% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Killorglin–Milltown planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2020/21 2
  • 2021/22 4
  • 2022/23 4
  • 2023/24 6
  • 2024/25 7
  • 2025/26 10
  • 2026/27 11

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special schools in the Killorglin–Milltown planning area
Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
St Francis Special SCHBeaufort · Moderate general learning disability 73
+43.1%
13 36

Sources: Department of Education enrolment lists; NCSE special class lists and special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).

Schools

14 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 Mhuire BKillorglin 12832O 367
−5.2%
15 24.07 28 0
Nagle Rice Primary SchoolKillarney 20229U 337
+17.4%
15 21.80 26 0
Glounaguillagh N SKillorglin 01583I 137
+9.6%
6 22.83 29 0
Castlemaine N SCastlemaine 18832V 123
+26.8%
4 24.75 30 1
Scoil Realt na MaraCromane 12820H 119
−13.1%
6 17.83 28 0
Castledrum N SCastlemain 09209B 107
+46.6%
5 20.20 29 0
S N Gleann BeitheGlenbeigh 18414D 106
+17.8%
5 21.20 28 0
Kilgobnet N SKillarney 07841L 92
+2.2%
4 23.00 28 0
Gaelscoil Naomh SéamasCill Orglan 12875J 43
+53.6%
2 21.50 28 0
Scoil Naomh CarthachKillarney 07990F 42
+10.5%
2 21.00 23 0
Curraheen MXD N SGlenbeigh 15978L 38
+18.8%
2 19.00 21 0
Fibough National SchoolCaislean Na Mainge 18756I 25
−39.0%
2 12.50 13 0
Kiltallagh N SCastlemaine 17161S 21
−34.4%
2 10.50 11 0
Boheshill MXDGlencar 16744O 18
−52.6%
2 9.00 11 0