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School planning area

Monasterevin

6 primary schools and 1,163 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Kildare and Laois.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,163
−5 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−3.4%
1,204 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
6
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
24.23
Average school size: 193.8

By county

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

Change over
Kildare 5 969
−2.7%
Laois 1 194
−6.7%

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 Laois, schools with no planning area had 4.9% of pupils in 2015/16, 8.8% in 2005/06 and 29.7% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,163

−5 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

6

6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

193.8

129.3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

24.23

−0.11 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. 131 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

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

6 schools with figures for both years

1fell by 10% or more
4within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 0Within 10% · 4Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 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
24.23
Mainstream classes
47
Classes of 30 or more
3
Schools with a class of 30+
2

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
47
Up 13 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 34%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 73
Estimate: 47 class teachers, 4 principals and deputies, 18 special education and 4 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
62
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 Monasterevin planning area, and the special classes in the 6 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
4
In 3 of 6 schools. 2 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
4
In 3 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
4
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 2
  • 2021/22 3
  • 2022/23 3
  • 2023/24 3
  • 2024/25 4
  • 2025/26 4
  • 2026/27 4

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

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.

Change over

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Roll number
Monasterevan ConventMonasterevin 15769C Kildare 377
+6.8%
15 24.73 31 1
Scoil Naisiunta Naomh PheadarMonasterevin 16707I Kildare 239
+2.6%
9 26.56 28 0
S N Cill DainginMonasterevan 18675I Kildare 207
−8.0%
8 25.12 31 2
Rath Mixed N SPortlaoise 13741Q Laois 194
−6.7%
8 22.75 24 0
S N BrideMonasterevin 18179T Kildare 101
−30.3%
5 20.20 26 0
St. John's National SchoolMonasterevin 12182B Kildare 45
+12.5%
2 22.50 28 0