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School planning area

Lanesboro

7 primary schools and 409 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Longford and Roscommon.

Pupils in 2025/26
409
−5 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−1.9%
417 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
7
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
17.30
Average school size: 58.4

By county

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

Change over
Longford 4 243
−3.2%
Roscommon 3 166
0.0%

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 Longford and Roscommon, schools with no planning area had 7.9% of pupils in 2015/16, 9.6% in 2005/06 and 34.3% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

409

−5 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

7

7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

58.4

75.9 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

17.30

−1.06 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. 37 in 2025/26, −12 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

3fell by 10% or more
3within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 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
17.30
Mainstream classes
23
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
23
Up 3 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 4%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 35
Estimate: 23 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 9 special education and 2 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
24
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 0
1 school gained a class teacher, 0 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 Lanesboro 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. 1 in 2022/23
Allocated for 2026/27
2
In 1 school
Autism classes
2
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2022/23

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

  • 2022/23 1
  • 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
Fermoyle Mixed N SLanesboro 13320P Longford 112
+4.7%
5 22.40 27 0
Lanesborough Primary SchoolLanesborough 18259R Longford 88
0.0%
4 19.25 24 0
Cloontuskert National SchoolLanesboro 18116S Roscommon 82
+51.9%
4 20.50 27 0
Scoil MhuireLanesborough 18061T Roscommon 69
−17.9%
4 17.25 20 0
Naomh Earnain N SLongford 18258P Longford 29
+7.4%
2 14.50 18 0
S N O DubhlainKilrooskey 17849K Roscommon 15
−46.4%
2 7.50 9 0
Cloontagh Mixed N SKillashee 14650S Longford 14
−51.7%
2 7.00 9 0