St Michaels Spec School
Dublin 20 · Roll number 17971H
- Special school
- Mild general learning disability
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 163
- +2 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +5%
- Up 8 from 155 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 73 / 90
- 45% girls
The Department of Education publishes only the number of pupils, girls and boys in each special school, not pupils by class, so this page has no class or class size figures. Pupils in special schools can be aged 4 to 18. All special schools
Pupils since 1993
Total enrolment each school year
Shaded: the last 10 years, 2015/16 to 2025/26. Until 2010/11 the Department listed special schools with mainstream schools; from 2011/12 they have their own list. Pupils on 30 September each year. Known data issues
Teachers
Teaching posts and special needs assistants (SNAs) at St Michaels Spec School, 2018/19 to 2025/26.
Where these figures come from
The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates each special school its teaching posts and SNAs, and these are its figures as published each year. They're posts, not people: part of a post can be a teacher shared with another school. The NCSE published no figures for special schools for 2020/21 and 2021/22. From 2026/27 it lists a principal and deputy who don't teach a class separately; earlier files don't say how they're counted. Known data issues
In 2025/26
22teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 7.4 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 22
25 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 21 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 25 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2018/19
Teaching posts each school year. Point at a bar for its SNAs.
Dashed boxes: the NCSE published no figures for special schools for those years. Known data issues
Source: NCSE special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby
The special schools closest to St Michaels Spec School, and the mainstream schools within 10 km that have special classes, measured in a straight line.
Nearest special schools
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Michaels Spec SchoolThis school | – | 163 |
+5.2%
|
|
| 1 | Linn Dara Schools2.0 km · Dublin 10 | 2.0 km | 51 |
+155.0%
|
| 2 | Phoenix Park Specialist School2.3 km · Phoenix Park, Co. Dublin · Emotional and behavioural difficulties | 2.3 km | 17 |
−5.6%
|
| 3 | St Vincents Home NS2.4 km · Dublin 7 · Moderate general learning disability | 2.4 km | 68 |
−2.9%
|
| 4 | St John of God SP SCH3.2 km · Dublin 8 · Moderate general learning disability | 3.2 km | 86 |
0.0%
|
| 5 | Ballydowd High Support Special School3.4 km · Palmerstown, Co. Dublin | 3.4 km | 7 |
−22.2%
|
Special classes within 10 km385 classes in 209 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Scoil Mhuire0.5 km · 2 autism classes | 0.5 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | St Louise de Marillac Primary School0.9 km · 2 autism classes | 0.9 km | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | Scoil Lorcain B1.0 km · An autism class | 1.0 km | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Bainrion na nAingal 21.1 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 1.1 km | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | S N Banrion na nAingeal 11.1 km · An autism class | 1.1 km | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Scoil Bride C1.1 km · An autism class | 1.1 km | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | St Patricks NS1.1 km · An autism class | 1.1 km | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | St Gabriels NS1.5 km · An autism class | 1.5 km | 1 | 1 |
About this school
Inspection reports open on gov.ie, under the name the school had when it was inspected. Newer schools may not have one yet.
Contact
- Principal
- Sharon Gorevan
- Phone
- 018201859
- [email protected]
- Address
- Glenmaroon, Chapelizod, Dublin 20, D20 A072
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Mild general learning disability
- Patron
- Archbishop of Dublin
- School type
- Special school
- DEIS
- Not DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- No subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Dublin City Council
- Planning area
- Castleknock–D15
Each detail is the latest one the Department of Education has recorded for this school. The designation is the need the NCSE lists the school as set up for; many special schools now take pupils with a wider range of needs. Known data issues
Data by year
33 school years from 1993/94 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 163 | 73 | 90 |
| 2024/25 | 161 | 75 | 86 |
| 2023/24 | 170 | 78 | 92 |
| 2022/23 | 160 | 75 | 85 |
| 2021/22 | 162 | 74 | 88 |
| 2020/21 | 168 | 73 | 95 |
| 2019/20 | 166 | 72 | 94 |
| 2018/19 | 163 | 74 | 89 |
| 2017/18 | 160 | 74 | 86 |
| 2016/17 | 160 | 75 | 85 |
| 2015/16 | 155 | 77 | 78 |
| 2014/15 | 150 | 72 | 78 |
| 2013/14 | 153 | 73 | 80 |
| 2012/13 | 153 | 69 | 84 |
| 2011/12 | 164 | 77 | 87 |
| 2010/11 | 154 | 68 | 86 |
| 2009/10 | 148 | 66 | 82 |
| 2008/09 | 145 | 62 | 83 |
| 2007/08 | 149 | 69 | 80 |
| 2006/07 | 155 | 71 | 84 |
| 2005/06 | 152 | 71 | 81 |
| 2004/05 | 154 | 68 | 86 |
| 2003/04 | 156 | 67 | 89 |
| 2002/03 | 162 | 68 | 94 |
| 2001/02 | 169 | 71 | 98 |
| 2000/01 | 179 | 78 | 101 |
| 1999/00 | 196 | 86 | 110 |
| 1998/99 | 205 | 94 | 111 |
| 1997/98 | 205 | 101 | 104 |
| 1996/97 | 207 | 105 | 102 |
| 1995/96 | 202 | 104 | 98 |
| 1994/95 | 215 | 112 | 103 |
| 1993/94 | 216 | 120 | 96 |