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School planning area

Trim

12 primary schools and 2,524 pupils in 2025/26, in County Meath.

Pupils in 2025/26
2,524
−11 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+8.6%
2,325 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
12
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
23.90
Average school size: 210.3

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

2,524

−11 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

12

10 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

210.3

142.4 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

23.90

+0.12 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. 306 in 2025/26, +7 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). 206 pupils in 2025/26, 8.2% of the area's pupils, against 9.9% 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

11 schools with figures for both years

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

4fell by 10% or more
4within 10%
3grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 4Within 10% · 4Up 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 174 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
23.90
Mainstream classes
101
Classes of 30 or more
10
Schools with a class of 30+
6

Teachers

Teachers in the 12 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
101
Up 31 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 35%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 169
Estimate: 101 class teachers, 11 principals and deputies, 37 special education and 20 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
120
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 2
1 school 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

0 special schools in the Trim planning area, and the special classes in the 12 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
19
In 8 of 12 schools. 9 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
10
In 6 schools: 1 new class
Autism classes
12
63% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 9
  • 2021/22 10
  • 2022/23 14
  • 2023/24 16
  • 2024/25 18
  • 2025/26 19
  • 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

12 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 Marys Convent N STrim 16646O 521
−14.7%
22 22.45 30 1
Scoil Mhichil na BuachailliTrim 05630L 294
+3.9%
11 23.45 29 0
Kilmessan MXD N SKilmessan 04210H 242
+24.1%
9 26.89 36 4
Dangan Mixed N SSummerhill 19018A 228
+20.6%
9 24.67 30 1
Gaelscoil na BoinneTrim 20051F 206
−10.4%
8 25.75 28 0
S N Cill BhrighdeTrim 17513A 200
+83.5%
7 26.86 37 1
S N MhuireNavan 17520U 194
+6.6%
7 26.00 29 0
Scoil Naomh BrideTrim 17947K 181
−2.7%
7 25.86 32 2
Trim Educate Together National SchoolTrim 20444B 174
+521.4%
7 24.86 28 0
S N NMH SheosamhNavan 17986U 136
+3.0%
6 21.83 33 1
S N Seosamh NaomthaNavan 17560J 100
−15.3%
5 17.60 21 0
St Patricks N STrim 13775K 48
−22.6%
3 16.00 17 0