School planning area

Swinford

Name: Primary school enrolment in the Swinford planning area
Creator: Department of Education

8 primary schools and 520 pupils in 2025/26, in County Mayo.

Pupils in 2025/26: 520; −13 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: −0.2%; 521 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 8; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 19.77; Average school size: 65.0

Trends in Swinford

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 Mayo, schools with no planning area had 9.0% of pupils in 2015/16, 17.7% in 2005/06 and 49.2% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

520

−13 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

65.0

47.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

19.77

−0.58 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. 54 in 2025/26, −6 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

2fell by 10% or more

3within 10%

3grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 2Up 25% or more · 1

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: 19.77
Mainstream classes: 26
Classes of 30 or more: 1
Schools with a class of 30+: 1

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: 26; No change since 2006/07, while pupils fell 6%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 38; Estimate: 26 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 10 special education and 1 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 31; 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 Swinford planning area, and the special classes in the 8 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: 1; In 1 of 8 schools. 1 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 2; In 1 school: 1 new class
Autism classes: 1; 100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 1
2021/22 1
2022/23 1
2023/24 1
2024/25 1
2025/26 1
2026/27 2

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

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
Swinford NSSwinford	19951L	200	+11.1%	8	24.25	28	0
Scoil na gCoilliniSwinford	02912G	97	−3.0%	4	24.25	30	1
SN an Trian LairSwinford	13389F	66	−10.8%	3	22.00	26	0
Kinaffe N SSwinford	16173U	48	+585.7%	3	16.00	19	0
Culmore N SSwinford	16780S	33	0.0%	2	16.50	17	0
Killasser NSSwinford	16269K	31	+14.8%	2	15.50	17	0
St Johns N SSwinford	16289Q	27	−67.1%	2	13.50	15	0
S N SheamaisSwinford	15113U	18	0.0%	2	9.00	9	0