School planning area
Tralee
17 primary schools and 3,988 pupils in 2025/26, in County Kerry.
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 3,988
- −30 on 2024/25
- Since 2015/16
- −0.2%
- 3,997 pupils in 2015/16
- Schools
- 17
- −1 on 2024/25
- Average class size
- 22.65
- Average school size: 234.6
Trends in Tralee
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.
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 Kerry, schools with no planning area had 0.1% of pupils in 2015/16, 7.7% in 2005/06 and 27.3% in 1975/76. Known data issues
Pupils
3,988
−30 on 2024/25
Schools
17
14 in 1975/76
Average pupils per school
234.6
278.4 in 1975/76
Average class size
22.65
−0.04 on 2024/25
Pupils in these schools
Junior infants, girls and boys, and Irish-medium schools over time, for the same schools as the trends above.
Junior infants
Pupils starting school each year. Class-by-class figures start in 2020/21. 480 in 2025/26, +30 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). 415 pupils in 2025/26, 10.4% of the area's pupils, against 7.0% 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.
17 schools with figures for both years
Grown most
Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26
- 1 Gaelscoil Mhic EasmainnTrá Lí, Co. Kerry 280 → 415 +48.2%
- 2 S N Breandan NaofaTraighli, Co. Kerry 148 → 207 +39.9%
- 3 S N Uaimh BhreanainnV92 Ae73, Co. Kerry 178 → 209 +17.4%
- 4 Holy FamilyTralee, Co. Kerry 227 → 265 +16.7%
- 5 Tralee Educate Together NSTralee, Co. Kerry 83 → 88 +6.0%
Fallen most
Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26
- 1 St Brendans N STralee, Co. Kerry 91 → 43 −52.7%
- 2 S N Mainistir O dTornaTralee, Co. Kerry 149 → 121 −18.8%
- 3 Naomh Padraig MeascTraighli, Co. Kerry 202 → 168 −16.8%
- 4 Scoil EoinTralee, Co. Kerry 684 → 589 −13.9%
- 5 S N Mhuire na mBraithreTralee, Co. Kerry 464 → 414 −10.8%
Ranked by percentage change. Only schools with 50 or more pupils in 2015/16 are ranked, leaving out any still filling their classes then, because a few pupils make a big percentage in a small or new school. An amalgamation or a new school nearby can also explain a big rise or fall.
Class sizes
Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.
- Average class size
- 22.65
- Mainstream classes
- 172
- Classes of 30 or more
- 8
- Schools with a class of 30+
- 7
Teachers
Teachers in the 17 mainstream primary schools here, 2006/07 to 2025/26. Class teachers are counted every year; all teaching posts where they're known.
- Class teachers in 2025/26
- 172
- Up 15 since 2006/07, while pupils fell 4%
- Teaching posts in 2025/26
- about 280
- Estimate: 172 class teachers, 13 principals and deputies, 80 special education and 15 special class teachers
- Teachers in 2015/16
- 236
- The Department's last count of every teacher
- Since 2024/25
- 1 / 1
- 1 school 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
1 special school in the Tralee planning area, and the special classes in its 17 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.
- Pupils in special schools
- 127
- In 1 school, up from 92 in 2015/16
- Special classes in 2025/26
- 15
- In 11 of 17 schools. 6 in 2020/21
- Allocated for 2026/27
- 17
- In 12 schools: 2 new classes, 1 school with its first
- Autism classes
- 12
- 80% of special classes
Special classes since 2020/21
In the Tralee planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists
- 2020/21 6
- 2021/22 8
- 2022/23 10
- 2023/24 10
- 2024/25 11
- 2025/26 15
- 2026/27 17
2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.
| Special school | Pupils | Since 2015/16 | Teaching posts | SNAs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Itas & St Josephs NSTralee · Mild general learning disability | 127 |
+38.0%
|
17 | 34.83 |
Sources: Department of Education enrolment lists; NCSE special class lists and special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).
Schools
17 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.
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| Roll number | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil EoinTralee | 13615L | 589 |
−4.7%
−13.9%
−3.1%
|
24 | 24.04 | 27 | 0 |
| Gaelscoil Mhic EasmainnTrá Lí | 19631Q | 415 |
+17.9%
+48.2%
+46.6%
|
16 | 25.94 | 29 | 0 |
| S N Mhuire na mBraithreTralee | 18247K | 414 |
−4.2%
−10.8%
+10.1%
|
20 | 19.80 | 25 | 0 |
| Scoil MhuireTralee | 13530D | 378 |
−6.2%
+2.4%
+15.6%
|
16 | 22.81 | 28 | 0 |
| S N an Chroi NaofaTralee | 16871V | 342 |
+36.3%
−6.6%
−18.8%
|
15 | 22.40 | 34 | 1 |
| Holy FamilyTralee | 19536W | 265 |
+28.0%
+16.7%
−38.7%
|
15 | 16.87 | 26 | 0 |
| Spa National SchoolTralee | 18702I | 230 |
+6.5%
+4.1%
+26.4%
|
9 | 25.00 | 30 | 1 |
| Ardfert Central N SArdfert | 19384C | 215 |
+10.3%
+0.9%
−8.1%
|
8 | 26.25 | 31 | 1 |
| S N Lios TeilicTralee | 09260B | 211 |
0.0%
−3.7%
−17.6%
|
8 | 25.88 | 31 | 2 |
| S N Uaimh BhreanainnV92 Ae73 | 17646T | 209 |
+15.5%
+17.4%
+34.8%
|
8 | 25.38 | 31 | 1 |
| S N Breandan NaofaTraighli | 16898S | 207 |
−3.7%
+39.9%
+55.6%
|
8 | 25.88 | 30 | 1 |
| Naomh Padraig MeascTraighli | 16917T | 168 |
−6.1%
−16.8%
−25.0%
|
7 | 24.00 | 35 | 1 |
| S N Mainistir O dTornaTralee | 18665F | 121 |
−20.9%
−18.8%
+39.1%
|
5 | 24.20 | 26 | 0 |
| Tralee Educate Together NSTralee | 20158A | 88 |
−10.2%
+6.0%
−12.0%
|
4 | 22.00 | 27 | 0 |
| St Johns Parochial SchoolTralee | 18233W | 61 |
+52.5%
+69.4%
0.0%
|
4 | 15.25 | 18 | 0 |
| St Brendans N STralee | 19659P | 43 |
−29.5%
−52.7%
−54.7%
|
3 | 12.33 | 13 | 0 |
| Derryquay MXD N STralee | 15878H | 32 |
−3.0%
−30.4%
0.0%
|
2 | 13.50 | 18 | 0 |
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Closed schools counted here
These schools closed after the Department started recording planning areas in 2023/24, so their earlier pupils are included in the trends above.
| School | Roll number | Last year | Pupils that year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballymacelligott 1 N SBallymacelligott | 09782I | 2024/25 | 2 |