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School planning area

New Ross

13 primary schools and 2,069 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Kilkenny and Wexford.

Pupils in 2025/26
2,069
+6 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+40.6%
1,472 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
13
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
20.94
Average school size: 159.2

By county

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

Change over
Wexford 10 1,752
+55.2%
Kilkenny 3 317
−7.6%

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 Kilkenny and Wexford, schools with no planning area had 3.8% of pupils in 2015/16, 7.7% in 2005/06 and 27.7% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

2,069

+6 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

13

10 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

159.2

116.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

20.94

−0.29 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. 239 in 2025/26, +1 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

10 schools with figures for both years

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

5fell by 10% or more
1within 10%
4grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 4Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 1Up 10 to 25% · 2Up 25% or more · 2

Sort the table below by the change column to see which schools grew or fell most.

Newer schools

3 schools still filling their classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 798 pupils between them. They aren’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
20.94
Mainstream classes
95
Classes of 30 or more
4
Schools with a class of 30+
3

Teachers

Teachers in the 13 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
95
Up 50 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 78%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 153
Estimate: 95 class teachers, 7 principals and deputies, 37 special education and 14 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
79
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 1
1 school 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 New Ross planning area, and the special classes in the 13 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
14
In 6 of 13 schools. 6 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
17
In 7 schools: 3 new classes, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
12
86% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 6
  • 2021/22 8
  • 2022/23 8
  • 2023/24 9
  • 2024/25 12
  • 2025/26 14
  • 2026/27 17

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

13 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.

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Roll number
Bunscoil RisNew Ross 20482J Wexford 351 – 17 18.88 23 0
Bunscoil Nic AmhlaidhNew Ross 20481H Wexford 312 – 17 16.94 19 0
S N Rath an IubhairEnniscorthy 17707N Wexford 187
+12.7%
7 25.86 36 1
St Canice S ConventNew Ross 01840C Wexford 186
−29.8%
7 26.57 34 2
Rathgarogue N SNew Ross 16023B Wexford 159
−26.4%
7 21.00 32 1
S N Baile CuisinFoulksmills 16673R Wexford 155
−33.2%
7 21.71 29 0
S N RaithinEnniscorthy 18191J Wexford 154
+23.2%
6 25.67 29 0
Scoil Mholainge Listerlinvia Waterford 18748J Kilkenny 148
+27.6%
6 24.67 29 0
New Ross Educate Together National SchoolNew Ross 20458M Wexford 135
+800.0%
7 19.29 23 0
The Rower Mixed N SThomastown 15160G Kilkenny 115
−31.1%
5 22.00 24 0
St Joseph's N.S.Enniscorthy 17638U Wexford 79
−9.2%
4 19.75 22 0
S N Baile an Fhasaighvia New Ross 18257N Kilkenny 54
−10.0%
3 18.00 24 0
S N Shean BhothNew Ross 17471K Wexford 34
+47.8%
2 17.00 17 0