Casa Caterina S S
Dublin 7 · Roll number 19409P
- Special school
- Emotional and behavioural difficulties
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 31
- +2 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- −11%
- Down 4 from 35 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 1 / 30
- 3% 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 Casa Caterina S S, 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
6teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 5.2 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 6
16 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 6 teaching posts and 2 exceptional 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 Casa Caterina S S, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Caterina S SThis school | – | 31 |
−11.4%
|
|
| 1 | Holy Family School for the Deaf0.8 km · Dublin 7 · School for deaf pupils | 0.8 km | 134 | – |
| 2 | St Vincents Home NS1.2 km · Dublin 7 · Moderate general learning disability | 1.2 km | 68 |
−2.9%
|
| 3 | Phoenix Park Specialist School1.4 km · Phoenix Park, Co. Dublin · Emotional and behavioural difficulties | 1.4 km | 17 |
−5.6%
|
| 4 | Youth Encounter Project1.5 km · Dublin 11 | 1.5 km | 14 |
−36.4%
|
| 5 | St Ciarans Spec SCH2.6 km · Dublin 11 · Mild general learning disability | 2.6 km | 140 |
+0.7%
|
Special classes within 10 km345 classes in 189 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | St Catherines Infant School0.2 km · 2 autism classes | 0.2 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Dominican Convent Girls Senior School0.3 km · An autism class | 0.3 km | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | North Dublin Muslim NS0.4 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 0.4 km | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | S N Eoin Bosco Buach0.6 km · 3 autism classes | 0.6 km | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | S N Eoin Bosco Nai Buac0.6 km · 2 autism classes | 0.6 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Fionnbarra Naofa B.N.S.0.8 km · An early intervention class and an autism class | 0.8 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Broombridge Educate Together National School1.0 km · 2 autism classes | 1.0 km | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | S N Naomh Finnin1.0 km · 2 autism classes | 1.0 km | 2 | 2 |
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
- Emma Kilcommins
- Phone
- 018385326
- [email protected]
- Address
- Rathoath Road, Cabra, Dublin 7, D07 YY30
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
- Cabra–Phibsboro–D7
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 | 31 | 1 | 30 |
| 2024/25 | 29 | 2 | 27 |
| 2023/24 | 31 | 5 | 26 |
| 2022/23 | 33 | 6 | 27 |
| 2021/22 | 29 | 3 | 26 |
| 2020/21 | 24 | 4 | 20 |
| 2019/20 | 33 | 3 | 30 |
| 2018/19 | 34 | 3 | 31 |
| 2017/18 | 30 | 2 | 28 |
| 2016/17 | 35 | 2 | 33 |
| 2015/16 | 35 | 1 | 34 |
| 2014/15 | 27 | 1 | 26 |
| 2013/14 | 28 | 3 | 25 |
| 2012/13 | 31 | 3 | 28 |
| 2011/12 | 31 | 5 | 26 |
| 2010/11 | 31 | 4 | 27 |
| 2009/10 | 36 | 5 | 31 |
| 2008/09 | 37 | 5 | 32 |
| 2007/08 | 42 | 5 | 37 |
| 2006/07 | 40 | 3 | 37 |
| 2005/06 | 38 | 4 | 34 |
| 2004/05 | 43 | 5 | 38 |
| 2003/04 | 42 | 3 | 39 |
| 2002/03 | 42 | 3 | 39 |
| 2001/02 | 40 | 4 | 36 |
| 2000/01 | 37 | 5 | 32 |
| 1999/00 | 28 | 3 | 25 |
| 1998/99 | 28 | 4 | 24 |
| 1997/98 | 29 | 4 | 25 |
| 1996/97 | 32 | 4 | 28 |
| 1995/96 | 32 | 4 | 28 |
| 1994/95 | 33 | 2 | 31 |
| 1993/94 | 36 | 2 | 34 |