School planning area
Oranmore
5 primary schools and 1,853 pupils in 2025/26, in County Galway.
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 1,853
- +8 on 2024/25
- Since 2015/16
- +5.3%
- 1,760 pupils in 2015/16
- Schools
- 5
- No change on 2024/25
- Average class size
- 25.00
- Average school size: 370.6
Trends in Oranmore
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.
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 Galway, schools with no planning area had 4.9% of pupils in 2015/16, 9.0% in 2005/06 and 34.0% in 1975/76. Known data issues
Pupils
1,853
+8 on 2024/25
Schools
5
3 in 1975/76
Average pupils per school
370.6
119.0 in 1975/76
Average class size
25.00
+0.07 on 2024/25
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. 225 in 2025/26, +13 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). 399 pupils in 2025/26, 21.5% of the area's pupils, against 22.8% 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.
4 schools with figures for both years
Schools still filling their classes in 2015/16, and schools opened since, are listed separately.
Sort the table below by the change column to see which schools grew or fell most.
Newer schools
1 school still filling its classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 770 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.
- Scoil ÍosaOranmore · figures start 2024/25 770
Class sizes
Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.
- Average class size
- 25.00
- Mainstream classes
- 73
- Classes of 30 or more
- 10
- Schools with a class of 30+
- 3
Teachers
Teachers in the 5 mainstream primary schools here, 2006/07 to 2025/26. Class teachers are counted every year; all teaching posts where they're known.
- Class teachers in 2025/26
- 73
- Up 31 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 66%
- Teaching posts in 2025/26
- about 112
- Estimate: 73 class teachers, 6 principals and deputies, 28 special education and 5 special class teachers
- Teachers in 2015/16
- 100
- The Department's last count of every teacher
- Since 2024/25
- 0 / 0
- 0 schools 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 Oranmore planning area, and the special classes in the 5 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.
- Pupils in special schools
- 0
- No special school here
- Special classes in 2025/26
- 5
- In 1 of 5 schools. 5 in 2024/25
- Allocated for 2026/27
- 6
- In 2 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
- Autism classes
- 3
- 60% of special classes
Special classes since 2024/25
In the Oranmore planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists
- 2024/25 5
- 2025/26 5
- 2026/27 6
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
5 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.
Select a column heading to sort
| Roll number | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil ÍosaOranmore | 20584R | 770 | ––– | 29 | 25.59 | 31 | 3 |
| Gaelscoil de hIdeUarán Mór | 19998O | 399 |
−11.1%
−0.5%
+137.5%
|
16 | 24.94 | 28 | 0 |
| Scoil MhuireClarinbridge | 19965W | 256 |
−5.2%
+2.8%
+16.4%
|
11 | 23.27 | 33 | 3 |
| Scoil Naomh MhuireOranmore | 18089S | 233 |
0.0%
+8.4%
+6.4%
|
9 | 25.89 | 31 | 4 |
| Kilcolgan Educate Together NSClarinbridge | 20326S | 195 |
−12.6%
−7.1%
– |
8 | 24.38 | 28 | 0 |
No schools match that filter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil MhuireOranmore | 13365O | 2023/24 | 471 |
| Scoil na nGasurOranmore | 04506F | 2023/24 | 269 |