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Solas Hospital School

Dublin 12 · Roll number 18788V

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Pupils in 2025/26
98
+7 on 2024/25
Over 10 years
+51%
Up 33 from 65 in 2015/16
Girls and boys
53 / 45
54% girls
Nearest other special school
1 km
Our Lady of Hope School, Dublin 12
A special school

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

Nearby

The special schools closest to Solas Hospital School, and the mainstream schools within 10 km that have special classes, measured in a straight line.

Special schools and classes within 25 km on the map

Nearest special schools

School Distance Pupils Since 2015/16
Solas Hospital SchoolThis school – 98
+50.8%
1 Our Lady of Hope School1.0 km · Dublin 12 · Community special school 1.0 km 45 –
2 Scoil Eoin1.0 km · Dublin 12 · Mild general learning disability 1.0 km 142
+18.3%
3 St John of God SP SCH2.1 km · Dublin 8 · Moderate general learning disability 2.1 km 86
0.0%
4 Libermann Spiritan School2.4 km · Dublin 6 · Community special school 2.4 km 51 –
5 Cheeverstown SP SCH3.5 km · Dublin 6w · Severe or profound general learning disability 3.5 km 29
+26.1%

Special classes within 10 km363 classes in 201 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE

School Distance Classes 2026/27
6 Lady of Good Counsel Boys Senior NS0.5 km · 2 autism classes 0.5 km 2 2
7 Our Lady of Good Counsel Girls Senior School0.5 km · 4 autism classes 0.5 km 4 4
8 Our Lady of Good Counsel School0.5 km · An early intervention class and an autism class 0.5 km 2 2
9 Drimnagh Castle CBS N S0.8 km · 2 autism classes 0.8 km 2 2
10 Assumption Junior School1.0 km · An early intervention class and an autism class 1.0 km 2 2
11 S N Muire na Freastogala Girls Senior School1.0 km · An autism class 1.0 km 1 1
12 Scoil Úna Naofa1.0 km · 2 autism classes 1.0 km 2 2
13 Goldenbridge Convent1.2 km · 2 autism classes2 new classes in 2026/27 1.2 km 2 4

All 217 schools with special classes within 10 km

Special schools and classes within 25 km

About this school

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Contact

Principal
MR FERGAL MCNAMARA
Address
Crumlin, Dublin 12, D12 V004

School

Ethos
Multi Denominational
Patron
City of Dublin ETB
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

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.

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Year Total Girls Boys
2025/26 98 53 45
2024/25 91 41 50
2023/24 86 52 34
2022/23 89 48 41
2021/22 82 40 42
2020/21 94 46 48
2019/20 78 34 44
2018/19 93 41 52
2017/18 80 41 39
2016/17 75 42 33
2015/16 65 30 35
2014/15 64 39 25
2013/14 48 27 21
2012/13 61 33 28
2011/12 46 19 27
2010/11 49 19 30
2009/10 47 14 33
2008/09 46 20 26
2007/08 45 23 22
2006/07 36 16 20
2005/06 47 22 25
2004/05 35 15 20
2003/04 38 18 20
2002/03 38 17 21
2001/02 35 19 16
2000/01 36 15 21
1999/00 34 18 16
1998/99 36 16 20
1997/98 46 19 27
1996/97 48 28 20
1995/96 44 20 24
1994/95 45 27 18
1993/94 56 21 35