School planning area

Tulla

3 primary schools and 424 pupils in 2025/26, in County Clare.

Pupils in 2025/26
424
−9 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−11.5%
479 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
3
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
22.89
Average school size: 141.3

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 Clare, schools with no planning area had 0.6% of pupils in 2015/16, 6.1% in 2005/06 and 24.8% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

424

−9 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

3

1 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

141.3

59.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

22.89

−0.50 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.

Junior infants

Pupils starting school each year. Class-by-class figures start in 2020/21. 46 in 2025/26, No change 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

3 schools with figures for both years

1fell by 10% or more
2within 10%
0grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 0Within 10% · 2Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 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
22.89
Mainstream classes
18
Classes of 30 or more
4
Schools with a class of 30+
2

Teachers

Teachers in the 3 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
18
Up 7 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 40%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 28
Estimate: 18 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 7 special education and 2 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
28
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 Tulla planning area, and the special classes in the 3 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
2
In 2 of 3 schools. 2 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
2
In 2 schools
Autism classes
2
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 2
  • 2021/22 2
  • 2022/23 2
  • 2023/24 2
  • 2024/25 2
  • 2025/26 2
  • 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

3 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 Mochullas N.S.Tulla 20075T 259
−9.4%
10 25.30 34 3
Broadford & Kilbane National SchoolBroadford 20452A 136
+5.4%
6 21.67 31 1
O Callaghans Mills N SO'Callaghan's Mills 05253H 29
−54.7%
2 14.50 15 0