St Ultans Special SCH
Navan · Roll number 19216E
- Special school
- Mild general learning disability
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 122
- −3 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +4%
- Up 5 from 117 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 53 / 69
- 43% 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 Ultans 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
16teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 7.6 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 16
23.5 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 16 teaching posts and 0.5 exceptional posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 24.5 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 Ultans 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 Ultans Special SCHThis school | – | 122 |
+4.3%
|
|
| 1 | St Marys Special School2.6 km · Navan, Co. Meath · Moderate general learning disability | 2.6 km | 83 |
−2.4%
|
| 2 | ABACAS School22.3 km · Drogheda, Co. Louth · Autism | 22.3 km | 31 |
+3.3%
|
| 3 | St Itas Special School23.0 km · Drogheda, Co. Louth · Mild general learning disability | 23.0 km | 207 |
+54.5%
|
| 4 | Cara Community Special School28.8 km · Meath · Community special school | 28.8 km | 28 | – |
| 5 | St Marys Special SCH30.3 km · Drumcar, Co. Louth · Moderate general learning disability | 30.3 km | 111 |
+56.3%
|
Special classes within 10 km28 classes in 12 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | St Pauls N S0.3 km · 2 autism classes | 0.3 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | St Oliver Plunkett NS0.5 km · 2 autism classes | 0.5 km | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | S N Mhuire0.8 km · 2 autism classes | 0.8 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Aine Naofa N S0.9 km · A speech and language class | 0.9 km | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Gaelscoil Eanna1.6 km · 2 autism classes | 1.6 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Scoil Naomh Eoin1.6 km · 2 autism classes | 1.6 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Ard Rí Community National School2.3 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 2.3 km | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Navan Educate Together NS2.4 km · 5 autism classes | 2.4 km | 5 | 5 |
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
- Jean Cunningham
- Phone
- 0469021831
- [email protected]
- Address
- Flower Hill, Navan, Co. Meath, C15 HX60
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Mild general learning disability
- Patron
- Bishop of Meath
- 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
- Meath County Council
- Planning area
- Navan
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 | 122 | 53 | 69 |
| 2024/25 | 125 | 55 | 70 |
| 2023/24 | 123 | 55 | 68 |
| 2022/23 | 124 | 51 | 73 |
| 2021/22 | 117 | 48 | 69 |
| 2020/21 | 120 | 48 | 72 |
| 2019/20 | 120 | 45 | 75 |
| 2018/19 | 114 | 42 | 72 |
| 2017/18 | 118 | 44 | 74 |
| 2016/17 | 117 | 39 | 78 |
| 2015/16 | 117 | 43 | 74 |
| 2014/15 | 117 | 41 | 76 |
| 2013/14 | 115 | 41 | 74 |
| 2012/13 | 114 | 38 | 76 |
| 2011/12 | 109 | 43 | 66 |
| 2010/11 | 109 | 43 | 66 |
| 2009/10 | 109 | 44 | 65 |
| 2008/09 | 97 | 39 | 58 |
| 2007/08 | 98 | 39 | 59 |
| 2006/07 | 103 | 40 | 63 |
| 2005/06 | 103 | 34 | 69 |
| 2004/05 | 105 | 39 | 66 |
| 2003/04 | 105 | 38 | 67 |
| 2002/03 | 100 | 35 | 65 |
| 2001/02 | 110 | 45 | 65 |
| 2000/01 | 107 | 46 | 61 |
| 1999/00 | 110 | 46 | 64 |
| 1998/99 | 122 | 50 | 72 |
| 1997/98 | 123 | 49 | 74 |
| 1996/97 | 122 | 49 | 73 |
| 1995/96 | 115 | 42 | 73 |
| 1994/95 | 107 | 42 | 65 |
| 1993/94 | 119 | 45 | 74 |