School planning area

Mountmellick

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

8 primary schools and 1,127 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Laois and Offaly.

Pupils in 2025/26: 1,127; −14 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: −11.3%; 1,270 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 8; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 20.13; Average school size: 140.9

By county

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

Change over


Laois	7	1,046	−9.4%
Offaly	1	81	−29.6%

Trends in Mountmellick

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 Laois and Offaly, schools with no planning area had 7.3% of pupils in 2015/16, 11.4% in 2005/06 and 26.2% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,127

−14 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

140.9

129.6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

20.13

−0.77 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. 125 in 2025/26, +2 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

8 schools with figures for both years

3fell by 10% or more

3within 10%

2grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 25% or more · 2

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: 20.13
Mainstream classes: 53
Classes of 30 or more: 0
Schools with a class of 30+: 0

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: 53; Up 15 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 12%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 94; Estimate: 53 class teachers, 6 principals and deputies, 25 special education and 10 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 74; The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25: 1 / 0; 1 school 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 Mountmellick planning area, and the special classes in the 8 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: 10; In 6 of 8 schools. 5 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 11; In 7 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes: 10; 100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 5
2021/22 6
2022/23 8
2023/24 9
2024/25 9
2025/26 10
2026/27 11

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

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
St Josephs Girls N.S.Mountmellick	07183W	Laois	230	−7.6%	12	19.17	26
Emo Mixed N SPortlaoise	13643Q	Laois	207	−2.8%	8	24.38	27
Na Carraige N SMountmellick	18206T	Laois	204	−8.1%	8	24.75	28
Mountmellick Boys N SMountmellick	16070K	Laois	187	−31.2%	11	15.91	24
Barr na Sruthan N SMountmellick	18294T	Laois	91	+42.2%	4	19.75	24
Naomh Padraig N SRosenallis	18513F	Laois	86	−22.5%	4	20.00	22
Clonaghadoo N SGeashill	16160L	Offaly	81	−29.6%	4	17.25	23
St Pauls N SMountmellick	19369G	Laois	41	+70.8%	2	20.50	24