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Ratoath

7 primary schools and 2,075 pupils in 2025/26, in County Meath.

Pupils in 2025/26
2,075
−133 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−8.6%
2,271 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
7
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
22.52
Average school size: 296.4

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 Meath, schools with no planning area had 0.1% of pupils in 2015/16, 0.3% in 2005/06 and 12.7% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

2,075

−133 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

7

3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

296.4

123.3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

22.52

−1.02 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. 190 in 2025/26, −53 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). 242 pupils in 2025/26, 11.7% of the area's pupils, against 6.6% 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

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

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

Newer schools

2 schools still filling their classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 652 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
22.52
Mainstream classes
90
Classes of 30 or more
3
Schools with a class of 30+
2

Teachers

Teachers in the 7 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
90
Up 37 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 41%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 142
Estimate: 90 class teachers, 7 principals and deputies, 37 special education and 8 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
120
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 Ratoath planning area, and the special classes in the 7 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
8
In 4 of 7 schools. 4 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
10
In 5 schools: 2 new classes, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
8
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 4
  • 2021/22 4
  • 2022/23 5
  • 2023/24 6
  • 2024/25 7
  • 2025/26 8
  • 2026/27 10

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

7 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
St Pauls NSRatoath 20215J 565
−20.1%
24 23.04 26 0
Ashbourne Educate Together National SchoolAshbourne 20396Q 410
+86.4%
16 24.88 27 0
Ratoath Senior NSRatoath 20200T 319
−24.9%
15 21.27 26 0
Gaelscoil na MíCill Dhéagláin 20382F 242
+60.3%
12 19.17 23 0
S N Rath BeagainDunshaughlin 18448U 219
+11.2%
8 27.38 30 2
Ratoath Junior N SRatoath 00885T 213
−53.9%
10 20.10 25 0
S N Aindreis NaofaAshbourne 17857J 107
−1.8%
5 21.40 34 1