School planning area

Maynooth

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

6 primary schools and 2,488 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Kildare and Meath.

Pupils in 2025/26: 2,488; −2 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: +25.2%; 1,987 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 6; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 24.28; Average school size: 414.7

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Kildare	5	2,263	+28.0%
Meath	1	225	+2.7%

Trends in Maynooth

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 Kildare and Meath, schools with no planning area had 0.9% of pupils in 2015/16, 3.1% in 2005/06 and 18.8% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

2,488

−2 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

414.7

250.3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

24.28

−0.52 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. 299 in 2025/26, −24 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 (2 schools today). 632 pupils in 2025/26, 25.4% of the area's pupils, against 24.1% 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

Schools still filling their classes in 2015/16, and schools opened since, are listed separately.

0fell by 10% or more

2within 10%

3grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 0Within 10% · 2Up 10 to 25% · 2Up 25% or more · 1

Sort the table below by the change column to see which schools grew or fell most.

Newer schools

1 school still filling its classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 173 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.

Gaelscoil RuairíMaigh Nuad · opened 2019/20 173

Class sizes

Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.

Average class size: 24.28
Mainstream classes: 101
Classes of 30 or more: 5
Schools with a class of 30+: 3

Teachers

Teachers in the 6 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: 101; Up 49 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 75%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 146; Estimate: 101 class teachers, 7 principals and deputies, 32 special education and 6 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 103; The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25: 2 / 0; 2 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

1 special school in the Maynooth planning area, and the special classes in its 6 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools

Pupils in special schools: 42; In 1 school, up from 30 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26: 6; In 4 of 6 schools. 3 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 7; In 5 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes: 6; 100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 3
2021/22 4
2022/23 5
2023/24 6
2024/25 6
2025/26 6
2026/27 7

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special schools in the Maynooth planning area
Special school	Pupils	Since 2015/16	Teaching posts	SNAs
Stepping Stones Special SchoolMaynooth · Autism	42	+40.0%	8.4	33

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

Schools

6 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.

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	Roll number
Presentation Girls Primary SchoolMaynooth	00779U	Kildare	621	+15.0%	26	23.65	28	0
Maynooth B N SMaynooth	17341U	Kildare	595	+13.3%	24	24.29	27	0
Scoil Ui FhiaichMaigh Nuad	20058T	Kildare	459	−4.2%	19	24.16	30	2
Maynooth Educate Together National SchoolMaynooth	20292E	Kildare	415	+85.3%	16	25.19	27	0
Scoil Oilibheir NaofaKilcloon	17652O	Meath	225	+2.7%	9	25.00	30	1
Gaelscoil RuairíMaigh Nuad	20527F	Kildare	173	–	7	23.86	30	2