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School planning area

Newbridge

11 primary schools and 3,541 pupils in 2025/26, in County Kildare.

Pupils in 2025/26
3,541
−60 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−11.5%
4,001 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
11
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
23.37
Average school size: 321.9

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 Kildare, schools with no planning area had 1.6% of pupils in 2015/16, 5.5% in 2005/06 and 24.2% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

3,541

−60 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

11

7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

321.9

311.6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

23.37

+0.19 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. 384 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

Pupils in schools that teach all subjects through Irish (1 school today). 288 pupils in 2025/26, 8.1% of the area's pupils, against 10.8% 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

11 schools with figures for both years

6fell by 10% or more
4within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 4Within 10% · 4Up 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
23.37
Mainstream classes
148
Classes of 30 or more
5
Schools with a class of 30+
3

Teachers

Teachers in the 11 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
148
Up 38 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 15%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 242
Estimate: 148 class teachers, 12 principals and deputies, 68 special education and 14 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
222
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 4
0 schools gained a class teacher, 4 lost one

Class teachers since 2006/07

One for each mainstream class, every school year

Special schools and special classes

1 special school in the Newbridge planning area, and the special classes in its 11 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
109
In 1 school, up from 84 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
14
In 8 of 11 schools. 11 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
17
In 9 schools: 3 new classes, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
11
79% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 11
  • 2021/22 11
  • 2022/23 12
  • 2023/24 12
  • 2024/25 14
  • 2025/26 14
  • 2026/27 17

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
St Marks Special SchoolNewbridge · Mild general learning disability 109
+29.8%
15 23

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

Schools

11 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 na Naomh UiligNewbridge 20271T 589
+11.1%
24 23.38 26 0
Newbridge Educate Together NSThe Curragh 20177E 406
+2.3%
16 25.38 28 0
Scoil MhuireNewbridge 19452Q 389
−5.6%
16 23.94 26 0
St Conleths and Marys N SNewbridge 17872F 345
−5.7%
15 22.20 25 0
Scoil Mhuire JuniorNewbridge 19550Q 333
−21.3%
15 21.80 26 0
Scoil Chonnla PhadraigNewbridge 15870O 306
−11.0%
13 23.54 26 0
Gaelscoil Chill DaraNewbridge 20023A 288
−33.6%
13 21.69 33 1
S N Connlaodh Naofa NNewbridge 17873H 285
−33.7%
12 22.75 26 0
S N BrighdeNewbridge 16654N 229
+9.0%
8 27.88 32 2
St Patricks N SNewbridge 13328I 187
−12.6%
8 22.62 30 2
Almhaine N SNaas 17567A 184
−23.7%
8 23.00 29 0