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Wexford

17 primary schools and 4,154 pupils in 2025/26, in County Wexford.

Pupils in 2025/26
4,154
−96 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−0.8%
4,187 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
17
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
22.57
Average school size: 244.4

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 Wexford, schools with no planning area had 3.7% of pupils in 2015/16, 4.8% in 2005/06 and 23.7% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

4,154

−96 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

17

14 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

244.4

265.2 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

22.57

−0.60 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. 461 in 2025/26, −5 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). 208 pupils in 2025/26, 5.0% of the area's pupils, against 5.4% 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

17 schools with figures for both years

6fell by 10% or more
7within 10%
4grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 2Down 10 to 25% · 4Within 10% · 7Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 25% or more · 3

Grown most

Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26

  1. 1 CBS Primary WexfordWexford, Co. Wexford 225 → 379 +68.4%
  2. 2 Wexford Educate Together National SchoolWexford, Co. Wexford 138 → 191 +38.4%
  3. 3 S N MhuireBarntown, Co. Wexford 267 → 336 +25.8%
  4. 4 S N Baile an PhiarsaighDrinagh, Co. Wexford 216 → 238 +10.2%
  5. 5 S N Clochar MhuireWexford, Co. Wexford 353 → 368 +4.2%

Fallen most

Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26

  1. 1 S N an GhleannaEnniscorthy, Co. Wexford 227 → 138 −39.2%
  2. 2 Curracloe N SEnniscorthy, Co. Wexford 110 → 73 −33.6%
  3. 3 S N Clochar MhuireRosslare, Co. Wexford 188 → 156 −17.0%
  4. 4 Faythe ConventWexford, Co. Wexford 269 → 226 −16.0%
  5. 5 S N na ScrineEnniscorthy, Co. Wexford 139 → 117 −15.8%

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
22.57
Mainstream classes
178
Classes of 30 or more
16
Schools with a class of 30+
9

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.

How we count teachers
Class teachers in 2025/26
178
Up 30 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 7%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 289
Estimate: 178 class teachers, 16 principals and deputies, 72 special education and 23 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
240
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 Wexford planning area, and the special classes in its 17 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
115
In 1 school, up from 109 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26
23
In 12 of 17 schools. 10 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
26
In 13 schools: 3 new classes, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
20
87% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 10
  • 2021/22 11
  • 2022/23 14
  • 2023/24 18
  • 2024/25 21
  • 2025/26 23
  • 2026/27 26

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special school Pupils Since 2015/16 Teaching posts SNAs
Our Lady of Fatima SP SWexford · Mild general learning disability 115
+5.5%
15 19

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 Mhuire CoolcottsWexford 19739N 573
−6.2%
30 18.30 21 0
Convent of MercyWexford 11986N 406
−10.4%
16 25.38 31 4
CBS Primary WexfordWexford 17217T 379
+68.4%
15 23.67 30 1
S N Clochar MhuireWexford 17373K 368
+4.2%
16 23.00 26 0
S N MhuireBarntown 17913Q 336
+25.8%
14 23.14 31 1
S N Baile an PhiarsaighDrinagh 18558E 238
+10.2%
8 28.25 32 3
S N Bhaile MhuirneMurrintown 18684J 230
−3.4%
9 25.56 32 2
Faythe ConventWexford 11361T 226
−16.0%
11 20.00 23 0
Castlebridge N SCastlebridge 18707S 223
−4.3%
9 24.78 31 2
Gaelscoil Loch GarmanLoch Garman 20008E 208
−8.4%
8 25.25 27 0
S N PhadraigCrossabeg 17017L 199
+1.5%
8 23.38 30 1
Wexford Educate Together National SchoolWexford 20333P 191
+38.4%
8 23.12 28 0
S N Clochar MhuireRosslare 16879O 156
−17.0%
7 21.86 36 1
S N an GhleannaEnniscorthy 17005E 138
−39.2%
6 22.00 33 1
S N na ScrineEnniscorthy 18839M 117
−15.8%
5 20.80 24 0
St Iberius N SWexford 18824W 93
−4.1%
4 20.25 22 0
Curracloe N SEnniscorthy 14492D 73
−33.6%
4 18.25 26 0