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School planning area

Kilrush

7 primary schools and 554 pupils in 2025/26, in County Clare.

Pupils in 2025/26
554
−20 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−15.7%
657 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
7
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
16.94
Average school size: 79.1

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 Clare, schools with no planning area had 0.6% of pupils in 2015/16, 6.1% in 2005/06 and 24.8% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

554

−20 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

7

5 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

79.1

72.4 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

16.94

−0.62 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. 61 in 2025/26, −5 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). 61 pupils in 2025/26, 11.0% of the area's pupils, against 9.9% 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

7 schools with figures for both years

5fell by 10% or more
2within 10%
0grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 5Down 10 to 25% · 0Within 10% · 2Up 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
16.94
Mainstream classes
32
Classes of 30 or more
0
Schools with a class of 30+
0

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
32
Up 1 since 2006/07, while pupils fell 10%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 48
Estimate: 32 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 12 special education and 2 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
44
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 Kilrush 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
2
In 1 of 7 schools. 2 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
2
In 1 school
Autism classes
1
50% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 2
  • 2021/22 2
  • 2022/23 2
  • 2023/24 2
  • 2024/25 2
  • 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

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
Convent of Mercy National SchoolKilrush 20041C 329
+6.1%
16 19.81 24 0
Cooraclare B N SKilrush 17816S 78
−30.4%
4 19.50 23 0
Gaelscoil Ui ChoiminCill Rois 19999Q 61
−6.2%
4 15.25 20 0
S N Ma SheastaMoyasta 18565B 37
−35.1%
2 18.50 22 0
Burrane N SKilrush 13738E 17
−72.6%
2 8.50 10 0
S N Cnoc DoireKilrush 18327I 17
−32.0%
2 8.50 10 0
Scoil an Sraith S NDoonbeg 16930L 15
−42.3%
2 7.50 8 0