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School planning area

Prosperous–Clane

11 primary schools and 2,666 pupils in 2025/26, in County Kildare.

Pupils in 2025/26
2,666
+3 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+6.9%
2,493 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
11
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
23.40
Average school size: 242.4

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

2,666

+3 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

11

8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

242.4

113.4 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

23.40

+0.17 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. 335 in 2025/26, +49 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.

3fell by 10% or more
5within 10%
2grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 5Up 10 to 25% · 2Up 25% or more · 0

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 263 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
23.40
Mainstream classes
111
Classes of 30 or more
5
Schools with a class of 30+
2

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
111
Up 37 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 37%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 168
Estimate: 111 class teachers, 6 principals and deputies, 39 special education and 12 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
126
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 1
0 schools 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 Prosperous–Clane planning area, and the special classes in the 11 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
12
In 6 of 11 schools. 7 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
13
In 6 schools: 1 new class
Autism classes
12
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Prosperous–Clane planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2020/21 7
  • 2021/22 7
  • 2022/23 7
  • 2023/24 7
  • 2024/25 11
  • 2025/26 12
  • 2026/27 13

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

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
Prosperous N SNaas 18515J 493
−7.7%
21 22.62 28 0
St Patricks BNSClane 19796C 488
−1.2%
19 25.05 29 0
Scoil Naisiunta BhrideClane 19797E 480
+2.6%
20 23.55 28 0
Scoil Mhuire Allenwood National SchoolNaas 20505S 263 – 11 23.36 28 0
Rathcoffey N SRathcoffey South 16845U 215
−4.0%
9 23.89 31 3
S N Coill DubhNaas 18096P 182
+14.5%
7 23.43 28 0
S N Baile RoibeairdRobertstown 18430B 173
−26.1%
7 23.86 33 2
S N NMH MhuireNaas 16777G 105
+20.7%
5 21.00 28 0
S N Cianog NaofaNaas 12998C 90
−14.3%
4 22.50 26 0
Hewetsons N SClane 13902O 89
+3.5%
4 22.25 29 0
S N Oilibhear PlungleadCarbury 17995V 88
−13.7%
4 22.00 25 0