St Peters Special SCH
Dublin 6 · Roll number 18904U
- Special school
- Emotional and behavioural difficulties
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 70
- +8 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +19%
- Up 11 from 59 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 18 / 52
- 26% 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 Peters Special SCH, 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
12teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 5.8 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 12
17 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 12 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 17 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 Peters Special SCH, 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 Peters Special SCHThis school | – | 70 |
+18.6%
|
|
| 1 | Our Lady of Hope School2.7 km · Dublin 12 · Community special school | 2.7 km | 45 | – |
| 2 | Scoil Eoin2.7 km · Dublin 12 · Mild general learning disability | 2.7 km | 142 |
+18.3%
|
| 3 | Libermann Spiritan School3.0 km · Dublin 6 · Community special school | 3.0 km | 51 | – |
| 4 | Catherine MC Auley N SC3.2 km · Dublin 2 · Specific learning disability | 3.2 km | 99 |
0.0%
|
| 5 | St Declans Special SCH3.4 km · Dublin 4 · Emotional and behavioural difficulties | 3.4 km | 35 |
−16.7%
|
Special classes within 10 km313 classes in 177 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Scoil Naisiunta Stratford0.4 km · An early intervention class and an autism class | 0.4 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Presentation Primary School1.3 km · An autism class | 1.3 km | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Dublin 6 Clonskeagh and Dublin 6W Primary School1.5 km · 2 autism classes | 1.5 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | S N Brighde1.5 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 1.5 km | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | St. Louis National School1.5 km · An autism class | 1.5 km | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Our Ladys N S1.6 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 1.6 km | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | St Clares Convent N S1.8 km · 4 autism classes | 1.8 km | 4 | 4 |
| 13 | Scoil Naisiunta an Dea Aoire1.9 km · 2 speech and language classes, an early intervention class and a mild general learning disability class | 1.9 km | 4 | 4 |
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
- Ms Rosemary Fahy
- Phone
- 012234840
- [email protected]
- Address
- St Peters School, 59 Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6, D06 X594
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Emotional and behavioural difficulties
- 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
- Dublin6–Clonskeagh
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 | 70 | 18 | 52 |
| 2024/25 | 62 | 11 | 51 |
| 2023/24 | 60 | 7 | 53 |
| 2022/23 | 59 | 6 | 53 |
| 2021/22 | 60 | 5 | 55 |
| 2020/21 | 60 | 6 | 54 |
| 2019/20 | 60 | 6 | 54 |
| 2018/19 | 60 | 7 | 53 |
| 2017/18 | 60 | 6 | 54 |
| 2016/17 | 61 | 8 | 53 |
| 2015/16 | 59 | 10 | 49 |
| 2014/15 | 60 | 10 | 50 |
| 2013/14 | 60 | 8 | 52 |
| 2012/13 | 60 | 10 | 50 |
| 2011/12 | 60 | 10 | 50 |
| 2010/11 | 60 | 12 | 48 |
| 2009/10 | 59 | 12 | 47 |
| 2008/09 | 56 | 14 | 42 |
| 2007/08 | 60 | 15 | 45 |
| 2006/07 | 57 | 15 | 42 |
| 2005/06 | 56 | 15 | 41 |
| 2004/05 | 61 | 17 | 44 |
| 2003/04 | 60 | 17 | 43 |
| 2002/03 | 61 | 14 | 47 |
| 2001/02 | 60 | 12 | 48 |
| 2000/01 | 63 | 15 | 48 |
| 1999/00 | 60 | 13 | 47 |
| 1998/99 | 61 | 12 | 49 |
| 1997/98 | 66 | 14 | 52 |
| 1996/97 | 64 | 14 | 50 |
| 1995/96 | 68 | 18 | 50 |
| 1994/95 | 68 | 17 | 51 |
| 1993/94 | 73 | 18 | 55 |