Ballyowen Meadows
Stillorgan · Roll number 19355S
- Special school
- Autism
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 53
- −1 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +36%
- Up 14 from 39 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 10 / 43
- 19% 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 Ballyowen Meadows, 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
10teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 5.3 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 10
30.32 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 10 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 32.32 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 Ballyowen Meadows, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyowen MeadowsThis school | – | 53 |
+35.9%
|
|
| 1 | Our Lady of Lourdes School3.4 km · Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin | 3.4 km | 6 |
+20.0%
|
| 2 | Carmona Special National School3.5 km · Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin · Severe or profound general learning disability | 3.5 km | 37 |
+5.7%
|
| 3 | St Kierans Spec School4.3 km · Bray, Co. Wicklow | 4.3 km | 59 |
+1.7%
|
| 4 | Red Door Special School4.6 km · Monkstown, Co. Dublin · Autism | 4.6 km | 29 |
+141.7%
|
| 5 | St Oliver Plunkett SP SC5.1 km · Blackrock, Co. Dublin · Specific learning disability | 5.1 km | 63 |
0.0%
|
Special classes within 10 km55 classes in 37 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | St Columbanus National School0.3 km · 3 autism classes | 0.3 km | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | Gaelscoil Phadraig0.4 km · An autism class | 0.4 km | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Scoil Colmcille Senior0.7 km · An autism class | 0.7 km | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | St Johns N S0.8 km · 3 autism classes | 0.8 km | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | Scoil Mhuire1.5 km · An autism class | 1.5 km | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Cherrywood Educate Together National School1.6 km · 2 autism classes | 1.6 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | St Annes MXD N S1.6 km · An autism class | 1.6 km | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Our Lady Good Counsel GNS1.8 km · 3 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 1.8 km | 3 | 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
- Thigam Padayachee
- Phone
- 012393010
- [email protected]
- Address
- Beechwood Court, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, A94 A3K6
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Autism
- Patron
- Health Service Executive
- 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
- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
- Planning area
- Ballybrack–Shankill–DLR
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 | 53 | 10 | 43 |
| 2024/25 | 54 | 9 | 45 |
| 2023/24 | 54 | 9 | 45 |
| 2022/23 | 48 | 7 | 41 |
| 2021/22 | 47 | 5 | 42 |
| 2020/21 | 47 | 5 | 42 |
| 2019/20 | 47 | 6 | 41 |
| 2018/19 | 46 | 9 | 37 |
| 2017/18 | 48 | 9 | 39 |
| 2016/17 | 36 | 6 | 30 |
| 2015/16 | 39 | 6 | 33 |
| 2014/15 | 42 | 6 | 36 |
| 2013/14 | 44 | 4 | 40 |
| 2012/13 | 46 | 6 | 40 |
| 2011/12 | 41 | 4 | 37 |
| 2010/11 | 32 | 5 | 27 |
| 2009/10 | 32 | 6 | 26 |
| 2008/09 | 40 | 8 | 32 |
| 2007/08 | 32 | 5 | 27 |
| 2006/07 | 31 | 5 | 26 |
| 2005/06 | 29 | 6 | 23 |
| 2004/05 | 28 | 7 | 21 |
| 2003/04 | 28 | 6 | 22 |
| 2002/03 | 21 | 3 | 18 |
| 2001/02 | 22 | 6 | 16 |
| 2000/01 | 24 | 4 | 20 |
| 1999/00 | 24 | 4 | 20 |
| 1998/99 | 24 | 4 | 20 |
| 1997/98 | 22 | 4 | 18 |
| 1996/97 | 21 | 3 | 18 |
| 1995/96 | 21 | 2 | 19 |
| 1994/95 | 20 | 1 | 19 |
| 1993/94 | 20 | 3 | 17 |