School Numbers
Menu
Find schools Counties Irish-medium Special schools About the data

School planning area

Portumna

10 primary schools and 697 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Galway and Tipperary.

Pupils in 2025/26
697
−19 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−9.2%
768 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
10
−1 on 2024/25
Average class size
20.15
Average school size: 69.7

By county

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

Change over
Galway 8 638
−9.6%
Tipperary 2 59
−4.8%

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 Galway and Tipperary, schools with no planning area had 4.2% of pupils in 2015/16, 8.2% in 2005/06 and 34.0% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

697

−19 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

10

8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

69.7

95.5 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

20.15

−0.02 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. 75 in 2025/26, −12 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

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% · 0Up 25% or more · 4

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
20.15
Mainstream classes
34
Classes of 30 or more
2
Schools with a class of 30+
1

Teachers

Teachers in the 10 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
34
No change since 2006/07, while pupils fell 8%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 53
Estimate: 34 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 16 special education and 2 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
52
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 Portumna planning area, and the special classes in the 10 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
2
In 2 of 10 schools. 1 in 2021/22
Allocated for 2026/27
3
In 2 schools: 1 new class
Autism classes
2
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2021/22

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

  • 2021/22 1
  • 2022/23 1
  • 2023/24 1
  • 2024/25 2
  • 2025/26 2
  • 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

10 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

Select a column heading to sort

Roll number
St Brendans NSPortumna 19996K Galway 235
−0.4%
10 22.90 29 0
Iomair N SBallinasloe 08512U Galway 136
+33.3%
5 26.00 34 2
S N Muire gan SmalBallinasloe 18043R Galway 53
+82.8%
2 26.50 28 0
Gortanumera N SBallinasloe 08379V Galway 50
+47.1%
3 16.67 19 0
S N Lorcain NaofaLoughrea 17490O Galway 45
−23.7%
2 22.50 24 0
St Brendan's N.S.Ballinasloe 15997P Galway 45
−35.7%
3 15.00 18 0
S N an CillinPortumna 13665D Galway 42
−28.8%
3 14.00 20 0
S N Breandan NaofaLoughrea 17506D Galway 32
−60.0%
2 16.00 23 0
S N Naomh RuadhainNenagh 17244W Tipperary 32
+28.0%
2 16.00 16 0
S N Lua NaofaNenagh 17608L Tipperary 27
−27.0%
2 13.50 14 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
Scoil Naomh ChuanBallinasloe 18441G 2024/25 6