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School planning area

Navan

19 primary schools and 5,965 pupils in 2025/26, in County Meath.

Pupils in 2025/26
5,965
+21 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−3.3%
6,166 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
19
−1 on 2024/25
Average class size
22.95
Average school size: 313.9

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 Meath, schools with no planning area had 0.1% of pupils in 2015/16, 0.3% in 2005/06 and 12.7% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

5,965

+21 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

19

14 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

313.9

231.4 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

22.95

+0.74 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. 677 in 2025/26, +39 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

Pupils in schools that teach all subjects through Irish (1 school today). 138 pupils in 2025/26, 2.3% of the area's pupils, against 4.0% 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

18 schools with figures for both years

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

9fell by 10% or more
7within 10%
2grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 7Within 10% · 7Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 25% or more · 1

Grown most

Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26

  1. 1 Scoil Naomh BarraNavan, Co. Meath 164 → 238 +45.1%
  2. 2 Navan Educate Together NSNavan, Co. Meath 188 → 213 +13.3%
  3. 3 Scoil Naomh EoinNavan, Co. Meath 343 → 375 +9.3%
  4. 4 St Pauls N SNavan, Co. Meath 721 → 761 +5.5%
  5. 5 Bohermeen N SNavan, Co. Meath 233 → 237 +1.7%

Fallen most

Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26

  1. 1 Gaelscoil EannaAn Uaimh, Co. Meath 245 → 138 −43.7%
  2. 2 Flowerfield N SNavan, Co. Meath 58 → 40 −31.0%
  3. 3 Mercy Convent N SNavan, Co. Meath 488 → 385 −21.1%
  4. 4 S N Baile CheantNavan, Co. Meath 263 → 214 −18.6%
  5. 5 St Oliver Plunkett NSNavan, Co. Meath 478 → 399 −16.5%

Ranked by percentage change. Only schools with 50 or more pupils in 2015/16 are ranked, leaving out any still filling their classes then, because a few pupils make a big percentage in a small or new school. An amalgamation or a new school nearby can also explain a big rise or fall.

Newer schools

1 school still filling its classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 384 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
22.95
Mainstream classes
253
Classes of 30 or more
16
Schools with a class of 30+
9

Teachers

Teachers in the 19 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
253
Up 76 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 29%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 389
Estimate: 253 class teachers, 21 principals and deputies, 89 special education and 26 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
321
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 7
1 school gained a class teacher, 7 lost one

Class teachers since 2006/07

One for each mainstream class, every school year

Special schools and special classes

2 special schools in the Navan planning area, and the special classes in its 19 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
205
In 2 schools, up from 202 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
26
In 11 of 19 schools. 12 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
30
In 14 schools: 4 new classes, 3 schools with their first
Autism classes
24
92% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 12
  • 2021/22 14
  • 2022/23 19
  • 2023/24 20
  • 2024/25 24
  • 2025/26 26
  • 2026/27 30

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
St Ultans Special SCHNavan · Mild general learning disability 122
+4.3%
16 23.5
St Marys Special SchoolNavan · Moderate general learning disability 83
−2.4%
14 42

Sources: Department of Education enrolment lists; NCSE special class lists and special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).

Schools

19 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 Stephens NSNavan 20179I 805
+0.5%
32 24.16 30 1
St Pauls N SNavan 19671F 761
+5.5%
32 23.41 27 0
St Oliver Plunkett NSNavan 19476H 399
−16.5%
16 24.19 29 0
Scoil BhrídeNavan 15104T 392
−11.7%
16 24.50 28 0
Mercy Convent N SNavan 16100Q 385
−21.1%
19 20.26 26 0
Ard Rí Community National SchoolNavan 20352T 384
+135.6%
15 25.60 34 3
Scoil Naomh EoinNavan 20180Q 375
+9.3%
19 19.11 27 0
Aine Naofa N SNavan 00883P 312
−6.0%
12 25.42 28 0
S N Naomh PadraigSlane 18040L 253
−8.3%
10 24.70 35 2
Scoil Naomh BarraNavan 19253K 238
+45.1%
10 22.60 32 1
Bohermeen N SNavan 17175G 237
+1.7%
10 23.70 32 4
S N na Trionoide NaofaNavan 18106P 233
−15.0%
10 23.30 30 1
S N Baile CheantNavan 17480L 214
−18.6%
8 25.25 34 2
Navan Educate Together NSNavan 20164S 213
+13.3%
9 20.33 26 0
Scoil Nais Aitinn BhuiNavan 17741N 211
−5.4%
9 23.44 32 1
S N MhuireNavan 17969U 205
−11.3%
10 19.30 23 0
Stackallen N SNavan 01309L 170
−12.4%
7 24.29 32 1
Gaelscoil EannaAn Uaimh 19725C 138
−43.7%
6 21.17 29 0
Flowerfield N SNavan 12788O 40
−31.0%
3 13.33 15 0

Closed schools counted here

These schools closed after the Department started recording planning areas in 2023/24, so their earlier pupils are included in the trends above.

School Roll number Last year Pupils that year
St Louis N SNavan 15483H 2024/25 13