St Itas & St Josephs NS
Tralee · Roll number 19376D
- Special school
- Mild general learning disability
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 127
- +1 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +38%
- Up 35 from 92 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 49 / 78
- 39% 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 Itas & St Josephs NS, 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
17teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 7.5 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 17
34.83 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 17 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 34.83 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 Itas & St Josephs NS, 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 Itas & St Josephs NSThis school | – | 127 |
+38.0%
|
|
| 1 | St Francis Special SCH21.6 km · Beaufort, Co. Kerry · Moderate general learning disability | 21.6 km | 73 |
+43.1%
|
| 2 | Nano Nagle N School24.5 km · Listowel, Co. Kerry · Moderate general learning disability | 24.5 km | 96 |
+33.3%
|
| 3 | Holy Family S S71.2 km · Charleville, Co. Cork · Moderate general learning disability | 71.2 km | 87 |
−2.2%
|
| 4 | Red Hill School79.5 km · Patrickswell, Co. Limerick · Autism | 79.5 km | 61 |
−18.7%
|
| 5 | Limerick Community Special School80.5 km · Limerick · Community special school | 80.5 km | 47 | – |
Special classes within 10 km14 classes in 10 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Holy Family0.2 km · 2 autism classes | 0.2 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Scoil Eoin0.2 km · 2 autism classes | 0.2 km | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | S N Mhuire na mBraithre1.0 km · 2 emotional disturbance classes | 1.0 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | S N an Chroi Naofa1.0 km · An autism class | 1.0 km | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Scoil Mhuire1.1 km · An autism class and a speech and language class | 1.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | S N Lios Teilic3.3 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 3.3 km | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Naomh Padraig Measc4.3 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 4.3 km | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Spa National School4.9 km · An autism class | 4.9 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
- Louise Brosnan
- Phone
- 0667125237
- [email protected]
- Address
- St Itas/st Josephs N S, Balloonagh, Tralee, Co Kerry, V92 F685
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Mild general learning disability
- Patron
- Bishop of Kerry
- 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
- Kerry County Council
- Planning area
- Tralee
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 | 127 | 49 | 78 |
| 2024/25 | 126 | 50 | 76 |
| 2023/24 | 136 | 53 | 83 |
| 2022/23 | 129 | 56 | 73 |
| 2021/22 | 139 | 61 | 78 |
| 2020/21 | 113 | 50 | 63 |
| 2019/20 | 107 | 39 | 68 |
| 2018/19 | 96 | 27 | 69 |
| 2017/18 | 91 | 24 | 67 |
| 2016/17 | 94 | 28 | 66 |
| 2015/16 | 92 | 28 | 64 |
| 2014/15 | 82 | 27 | 55 |
| 2013/14 | 73 | 28 | 45 |
| 2012/13 | 67 | 26 | 41 |
| 2011/12 | 68 | 23 | 45 |
| 2010/11 | 69 | 24 | 45 |
| 2009/10 | 73 | 23 | 50 |
| 2008/09 | 62 | 22 | 40 |
| 2007/08 | 72 | 29 | 43 |
| 2006/07 | 77 | 30 | 47 |
| 2005/06 | 77 | 28 | 49 |
| 2004/05 | 67 | 26 | 41 |
| 2003/04 | 74 | 27 | 47 |
| 2002/03 | 85 | 29 | 56 |
| 2001/02 | 93 | 27 | 66 |
| 2000/01 | 92 | 26 | 66 |
| 1999/00 | 93 | 27 | 66 |
| 1998/99 | 104 | 29 | 75 |
| 1997/98 | 116 | 35 | 81 |
| 1996/97 | 119 | 37 | 82 |
| 1995/96 | 121 | 45 | 76 |
| 1994/95 | 126 | 42 | 84 |
| 1993/94 | 130 | 43 | 87 |