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School planning area

Scribblestown–FinglasWest

10 primary schools and 1,397 pupils in 2025/26, in County Dublin.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,397
−41 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−6.7%
1,498 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
10
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
17.21
Average school size: 139.7

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 Dublin, schools with no planning area had 1.5% of pupils in 2015/16, 5.3% in 2005/06 and 36.8% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,397

−41 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

10

5 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

139.7

643.6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

17.21

−0.93 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. 176 in 2025/26, +25 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

9 schools with figures for both years

Schools still filling their classes in 2015/16, and schools opened since, are listed separately.

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

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 62 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
17.21
Mainstream classes
76
Classes of 30 or more
0
Schools with a class of 30+
0

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
76
No change since 2006/07, while pupils fell 10%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 140
Estimate: 76 class teachers, 8 principals and deputies, 39 special education and 17 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
112
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
2 / 2
2 schools gained a class teacher, 2 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 Scribblestown–FinglasWest planning area, and the special classes in its 10 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
14
In 1 school, down from 22 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
18
In 9 of 10 schools. 7 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
19
In 10 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
17
94% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Scribblestown–FinglasWest planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2020/21 7
  • 2021/22 7
  • 2022/23 7
  • 2023/24 8
  • 2024/25 11
  • 2025/26 18
  • 2026/27 19

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
Youth Encounter ProjectDublin 11 14
−36.4%
– –

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

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Roll number
S N Naomh FinninDublin 11 19489Q 266
+15.7%
14 19.00 27 0
S N Naomh Feargal Boys SeniorDublin 11 18137D 180
+24.1%
9 18.67 22 0
St Josephs G N SDublin 11 19015R 146
−21.5%
8 18.25 23 0
St Brigids Infant N SDublin 11 20029M 140
−37.2%
9 14.22 15 0
St Brigids Senior GirlsDublin 11 19929S 137
−25.1%
8 15.62 23 0
St Kevins B N SDublin 11 19197D 131
−22.5%
7 17.86 24 0
St Malachys NSDublin 11 19619D 131
−5.1%
7 17.86 24 0
St Oliver Plunkett N SDublin 11 19546C 110
−30.8%
6 16.33 25 0
Finglas Parochial National SchoolDublin 11 18205R 94
+44.6%
5 16.40 21 0
Scoil Sinead NSFinglas 20502M 62 – 3 15.00 18 0