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School planning area

Malahide–Nevinstown

5 primary schools and 2,453 pupils in 2025/26, in County Dublin.

Pupils in 2025/26
2,453
−61 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−9.7%
2,718 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
5
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
24.85
Average school size: 490.6

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 Dublin, schools with no planning area had 1.5% of pupils in 2015/16, 5.3% in 2005/06 and 36.8% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

2,453

−61 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

5

3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

490.6

307.3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

24.85

−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. 269 in 2025/26, −46 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). 380 pupils in 2025/26, 15.5% of the area's pupils, against 15.6% 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

5 schools with figures for both years

3fell by 10% or more
2within 10%
0grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 3Within 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
24.85
Mainstream classes
98
Classes of 30 or more
0
Schools with a class of 30+
0

Teachers

Teachers in the 5 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
98
Up 18 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 10%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 140
Estimate: 98 class teachers, 7 principals and deputies, 33 special education and 2 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
133
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 0
0 schools 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 Malahide–Nevinstown planning area, and the special classes in the 5 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 5 schools. 2 in 2021/22
Allocated for 2026/27
2
In 1 school
Specific learning disability classes
2
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2021/22

In the Malahide–Nevinstown planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 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

5 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 Oliver PlunkettMalahide 17914S 838
−9.6%
33 24.85 29 0
John Paul II N SMalahide 19627C 663
−2.5%
26 25.50 28 0
Gaelscoil an DuinninighSord 19898K 380
−10.4%
16 23.75 27 0
SN N Sailbheastar NfaMalahide 17928G 365
−18.9%
15 24.33 27 0
St Andrews N SMalahide 11583O 207
−12.7%
8 25.88 28 0