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Skerries

8 primary schools and 1,645 pupils in 2025/26, in County Dublin.

Pupils in 2025/26
1,645
−81 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−13.3%
1,897 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
8
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.88
Average school size: 205.6

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

1,645

−81 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

8

6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

205.6

147.8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.88

−0.68 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. 179 in 2025/26, −17 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

8 schools with figures for both years

6fell by 10% or more
1within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 4Within 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.

Class sizes

Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.

Average class size
21.88
Mainstream classes
73
Classes of 30 or more
3
Schools with a class of 30+
3

Teachers

Teachers in the 8 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
73
Up 15 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 6%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 117
Estimate: 73 class teachers, 6 principals and deputies, 30 special education and 8 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
108
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 2
0 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 Skerries planning area, and the special classes in its 8 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
30
In 1 school, the same as 30 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
8
In 4 of 8 schools. 2 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
11
In 5 schools: 3 new classes, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
6
75% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 2
  • 2021/22 3
  • 2022/23 3
  • 2023/24 4
  • 2024/25 6
  • 2025/26 8
  • 2026/27 11

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
St Michaels Spec SCHSkerries · Moderate general learning disability 30
0.0%
6 20

Sources: Department of Education enrolment lists; NCSE special class lists and special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).

Schools

8 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 Patricks SNR MixedSkerries 16332O 338
−0.3%
14 24.14 30 1
Scoil Réalt na MaraSkerries 19625V 338
−22.7%
14 23.71 31 1
Skerries Educate Together National SchoolSkerries 20307O 333
+11.0%
15 20.60 26 0
St Patricks JNR MixedSkerries 16333Q 249
−25.0%
12 20.25 25 0
Scoil N. BreandanSkerries 16844S 183
−17.6%
8 22.88 30 1
Scoil MoibhiSkerries 15569R 84
−10.6%
4 21.00 27 0
Baile FalbachLusk 17472M 69
−23.3%
3 19.00 25 0
Holmpatrick N SSkerries 14180H 51
−38.6%
3 17.00 20 0