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Mooncoin

2 primary schools and 384 pupils in 2025/26, in County Kilkenny.

Pupils in 2025/26
384
−2 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+134.1%
164 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
2
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
22.56
Average school size: 192.0

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 County Kilkenny, schools with no planning area had 3.9% of pupils in 2015/16, 12.4% in 2005/06 and 33.9% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

384

−2 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

2

1 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

192.0

74.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

22.56

−0.82 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. 42 in 2025/26, −4 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

1 school with figures for both years

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

1fell by 10% or more
0within 10%
0grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 0Within 10% · 0Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 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 261 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
22.56
Mainstream classes
16
Classes of 30 or more
2
Schools with a class of 30+
1

Teachers

Teachers in the 2 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
16
Up 12 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 240%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 28
Estimate: 16 class teachers, 2 principals and deputies, 6 special education and 4 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
6
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 Mooncoin planning area, and the special classes in the 2 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 2 of 2 schools. 1 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
4
In 2 schools
Autism classes
4
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 1
  • 2021/22 1
  • 2022/23 2
  • 2023/24 2
  • 2024/25 2
  • 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

2 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
Scoil MhuireMooncoin 20492M 261 – 11 22.64 32 2
Carigeen N SCarrigeen 15340I 123
−25.0%
5 22.40 26 0