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Montenotte–CorkCity

8 primary schools and 1,374 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,374
+14 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+16.8%
1,176 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
8
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
18.60
Average school size: 171.8

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

1,374

+14 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

8

6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

171.8

359.3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

18.60

+0.37 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. 184 in 2025/26, +48 on 2024/25.

Girls and boys

From 1977/78: 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). 393 pupils in 2025/26, 28.6% of the area's pupils, against 28.3% 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

7 schools with figures for both years

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

4fell by 10% or more
1within 10%
2grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 3Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 1Up 10 to 25% · 2Up 25% or more · 0

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 304 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.

Class sizes

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

Average class size
18.60
Mainstream classes
68
Classes of 30 or more
3
Schools with a class of 30+
1

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
68
Up 9 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 13%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 136
Estimate: 68 class teachers, 9 principals and deputies, 39 special education and 20 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
90
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 2
1 school gained a class teacher, 2 lost one

Class teachers since 2006/07

One for each mainstream class, every school year

Special schools and special classes

4 special schools in the Montenotte–CorkCity planning area, and the special classes in its 8 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
396
In 4 schools, up from 353 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
20
In 7 of 8 schools. 10 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
21
In 8 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
18
90% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Montenotte–CorkCity planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2020/21 10
  • 2021/22 13
  • 2022/23 15
  • 2023/24 17
  • 2024/25 17
  • 2025/26 20
  • 2026/27 21

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
St Bernadettes Spec SCHMontenotte · Mild general learning disability 132
+8.2%
19 20
St Killians Spec SCHCork · Specific learning disability 106
+53.6%
18 40
St Paul's SchoolCork · Moderate general learning disability 92
−3.2%
16 45
Scoil EannaCork · Mild general learning disability 66
−1.5%
9 16

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
Gaelscoil an Ghoirt AlainnCorcaigh 19993E 393
+18.0%
16 24.56 35 3
Scoil Mhuire agus EoinMayfield 20497W 304 – 16 17.88 21 0
St Patricks B N SCork 17045Q 152
−27.3%
9 15.56 22 0
S N Padraig Naofa CCork 18153B 128
−35.7%
7 18.29 23 0
S N Bhreanndain CCork 19427R 115
+18.6%
6 14.17 25 0
S N Mharcuis BCork 19426P 99
−11.6%
5 14.20 19 0
St Lukes MXD N SCork 13648D 96
+9.1%
4 22.50 28 0
S N Padraig NaofaCork 18154D 87
−37.0%
5 14.40 16 0