School planning area

Kinsale

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

8 primary schools and 1,687 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.

Pupils in 2025/26: 1,687; +13 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: −1.7%; 1,717 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 8; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 23.20; Average school size: 210.9

Trends in Kinsale

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 Cork, schools with no planning area had 3.2% of pupils in 2015/16, 8.7% in 2005/06 and 29.9% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,687

+13 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

5 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

210.9

80.6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

23.20

+0.07 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. 183 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

Pupils in schools that teach all subjects through Irish (1 school today). 145 pupils in 2025/26, 8.6% of the area's pupils, against 12.4% 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

8 schools with figures for both years

3fell by 10% or more

3within 10%

2grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 3Down 10 to 25% · 0Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 25% or more · 1

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: 23.20
Mainstream classes: 70
Classes of 30 or more: 5
Schools with a class of 30+: 3

Teachers

Teachers in the 8 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: 70; Up 38 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 85%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 118; Estimate: 70 class teachers, 7 principals and deputies, 30 special education and 11 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 96; 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 Kinsale planning area, and the special classes in the 8 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: 11; In 7 of 8 schools. 4 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 12; In 7 schools: 1 new class
Autism classes: 11; 100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 4
2021/22 6
2022/23 7
2023/24 9
2024/25 10
2025/26 11
2026/27 12

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

8 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 Naomh EltinKinsale	20435A	401	+76.7%	16	24.31	29	0
Scoil Mhuire na nGrastBelgooly	19672H	363	−2.2%	15	23.80	30	1
S N Chobh Chionn TsaileKinsale	18829J	213	−5.3%	8	26.62	31	2
Ballinspittle N SBallinspittle	00467B	192	−3.0%	7	26.57	37	2
Dundar Mhuighe N SKinsale	16940O	175	−30.8%	8	20.50	27	0
Gaelscoil Chionn tSáileCionn tSáile	20265B	145	−31.9%	7	19.29	27	0
S N Fionan na ReannaBelgooly	18713N	144	+20.0%	6	22.00	28	0
Kinsale N SKinsale	14726C	54	−50.9%	3	16.00	20	0