School planning area

Moyne

6 primary schools and 657 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Cavan and Longford.

Pupils in 2025/26
657
−12 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−8.8%
720 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
6
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.40
Average school size: 109.5

By county

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

Change over
Longford 4 541
−3.9%
Cavan 2 116
−26.1%

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 Cavan and Longford, schools with no planning area had 0.0% of pupils in 2015/16, 2.2% in 2005/06 and 31.6% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

657

−12 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

6

4 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

109.5

107.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.40

+0.24 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.

Junior infants

Pupils starting school each year. Class-by-class figures start in 2020/21. 76 in 2025/26, +8 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

4fell by 10% or more
1within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 1Up 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
21.40
Mainstream classes
30
Classes of 30 or more
1
Schools with a class of 30+
1

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
30
Up 8 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 24%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 46
Estimate: 30 class teachers, 2 principals and deputies, 11 special education and 3 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
38
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 1
0 schools gained a class teacher, 1 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 Moyne 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
3
In 2 of 6 schools. 1 in 2022/23
Allocated for 2026/27
3
In 2 schools
Autism classes
3
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2022/23

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

  • 2022/23 1
  • 2023/24 2
  • 2024/25 3
  • 2025/26 3
  • 2026/27 3

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
St Marys Mixed N SDrumlish 16665S Longford 215
+2.9%
9 23.22 33 1
S N Naomh ColmcilleAughnacliffe 19296F Longford 155
+24.0%
6 24.33 28 0
St Patricks NS LongfordMoyne 19353O Longford 108
−20.0%
5 21.60 27 0
St Marys N SArva 16316Q Cavan 102
−20.3%
5 20.40 24 0
St PatricksBallinamuck 19975C Longford 63
−33.0%
3 21.00 25 0
Coronea N SArva 16767D Cavan 14
−51.7%
2 7.00 8 0