The Adelaide and Meath Hospital
Dublin 24 · Roll number 19207D
- Special school
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 11
- +1 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- −15%
- Down 2 from 13 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 8 / 3
- 73% 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
Nearby
The special schools closest to The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Adelaide and Meath HospitalThis school | – | 11 |
−15.4%
|
|
| 1 | ABACAS Special School for Children with Autism1.7 km · Dublin 24 · Autism | 1.7 km | 30 |
+87.5%
|
| 2 | St Roses Special School2.3 km · Dublin 24 · Specific learning disability | 2.3 km | 63 |
0.0%
|
| 3 | St Josephs Special SCH2.6 km · Dublin 24 · Mild general learning disability | 2.6 km | 86 |
0.0%
|
| 4 | Cheeverstown SP SCH4.3 km · Dublin 6w · Severe or profound general learning disability | 4.3 km | 29 |
+26.1%
|
| 5 | Scoil Mochua4.3 km · Dublin 22 · Physical disability | 4.3 km | 69 |
+9.5%
|
Special classes within 10 km242 classes in 136 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | St Marks Junior Mixed0.8 km · 2 speech and language classesA new class in 2026/27 | 0.8 km | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | St Marks Sen NS0.8 km · A mild general learning disability class | 0.8 km | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Belgard Heights N S0.9 km · 2 speech and language classes and an autism class2 new classes in 2026/27 | 0.9 km | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | St Annes Primary School0.9 km · 3 autism classes | 0.9 km | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | Tallaght Community National School1.4 km · 2 autism classes | 1.4 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | St Dominic's National School1.6 km · 2 autism classes2 new classes in 2026/27 | 1.6 km | 2 | 4 |
| 12 | An Chroi Ro Naofa Sois1.7 km · 2 autism classes | 1.7 km | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | S N an Croi Ro Naofa1.7 km · An autism class | 1.7 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
- Aislinn Wilkins
- Phone
- 014142169
- [email protected]
- Address
- Incorporating the National, Childrens Hospital Special School, Tallaght, Dublin 24, D24 KNE0
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- Patron
- Archbishop of Dublin & Bishop of Glendalouogh
- 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
- South Dublin County Council
- Planning area
- Tallaght
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 | 11 | 8 | 3 |
| 2024/25 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| 2023/24 | 11 | 9 | 2 |
| 2022/23 | 12 | 8 | 4 |
| 2021/22 | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| 2020/21 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 2019/20 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 2018/19 | 11 | 6 | 5 |
| 2017/18 | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| 2016/17 | 10 | 2 | 8 |
| 2015/16 | 13 | 5 | 8 |
| 2014/15 | 14 | 4 | 10 |
| 2013/14 | 13 | 6 | 7 |
| 2012/13 | 13 | 5 | 8 |
| 2011/12 | 13 | 6 | 7 |
| 2010/11 | 15 | 6 | 9 |
| 2009/10 | 15 | 11 | 4 |
| 2008/09 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| 2007/08 | 10 | 6 | 4 |
| 2006/07 | 15 | 4 | 11 |
| 2005/06 | 13 | 9 | 4 |
| 2004/05 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| 2003/04 | 13 | 7 | 6 |
| 2002/03 | 15 | 1 | 14 |
| 2001/02 | 14 | 9 | 5 |
| 2000/01 | 22 | 12 | 10 |
| 1999/00 | 13 | 9 | 4 |
| 1998/99 | 12 | 6 | 6 |
| 1997/98 | 16 | 7 | 9 |
| 1996/97 | 14 | 10 | 4 |
| 1995/96 | 18 | 6 | 12 |
| 1994/95 | 22 | 9 | 13 |
| 1993/94 | 27 | 12 | 15 |