St Oliver Plunkett SP SC
Blackrock · Roll number 19499T
- Special school
- Specific learning disability
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 63
- No change on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- 0%
- No change from 63 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 25 / 38
- 40% 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 Oliver Plunkett SP SC, 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
9teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 7 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 9
5 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 7 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 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 Oliver Plunkett SP SC, 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 Oliver Plunkett SP SCThis school | – | 63 |
0.0%
|
|
| 1 | Red Door Special School0.6 km · Monkstown, Co. Dublin · Autism | 0.6 km | 29 |
+141.7%
|
| 2 | Carmona Special National School1.9 km · Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin · Severe or profound general learning disability | 1.9 km | 37 |
+5.7%
|
| 3 | Our Lady of Lourdes School1.9 km · Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin | 1.9 km | 6 |
+20.0%
|
| 4 | St Augustines School1.9 km · Blackrock, Co. Dublin · Mild general learning disability | 1.9 km | 157 |
−9.8%
|
| 5 | Benincasa Special School2.3 km · Blackrock, Co. Dublin · Emotional and behavioural difficulties | 2.3 km | 35 |
−14.6%
|
Special classes within 10 km115 classes in 70 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Holy Family School0.7 km · 2 autism classes | 0.7 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Clochar San Dominic1.1 km · 2 autism classes | 1.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | St Josephs1.1 km · A moderate general learning disability class | 1.1 km | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Monkstown Eucate Together NS1.4 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 1.4 km | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Kill-O'-The-Grange NS1.7 km · An autism class | 1.7 km | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Carysfort NS2.0 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 2.0 km | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Scoil Padraig Naofa B2.0 km · An autism class2 new classes in 2026/27 | 2.0 km | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | The Harold School2.0 km · An autism class | 2.0 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
- Donna Coleman
- Phone
- 012808824
- [email protected]
- Address
- Alma Place, Carrigbreannan, Blackrock, Co Dublin, A94 H562
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Specific learning disability
- 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
- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
- Planning area
- Dunlaoghaire
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 | 63 | 25 | 38 |
| 2024/25 | 63 | 24 | 39 |
| 2023/24 | 63 | 23 | 40 |
| 2022/23 | 63 | 26 | 37 |
| 2021/22 | 63 | 23 | 40 |
| 2020/21 | 63 | 24 | 39 |
| 2019/20 | 63 | 23 | 40 |
| 2018/19 | 63 | 23 | 40 |
| 2017/18 | 63 | 24 | 39 |
| 2016/17 | 63 | 21 | 42 |
| 2015/16 | 63 | 23 | 40 |
| 2014/15 | 63 | 40 | 23 |
| 2013/14 | 63 | 18 | 45 |
| 2012/13 | 63 | 19 | 44 |
| 2011/12 | 63 | 22 | 41 |
| 2010/11 | 63 | 25 | 38 |
| 2009/10 | 54 | 22 | 32 |
| 2008/09 | 54 | 19 | 35 |
| 2007/08 | 54 | 11 | 43 |
| 2006/07 | 51 | 10 | 41 |
| 2005/06 | 53 | 11 | 42 |
| 2004/05 | 54 | 14 | 40 |
| 2003/04 | 55 | 15 | 40 |
| 2002/03 | 60 | 21 | 39 |
| 2001/02 | 61 | 21 | 40 |
| 2000/01 | 53 | 15 | 38 |
| 1999/00 | 55 | 15 | 40 |
| 1998/99 | 55 | 14 | 41 |
| 1997/98 | 55 | 14 | 41 |
| 1996/97 | 55 | 13 | 42 |
| 1995/96 | 53 | 14 | 39 |
| 1994/95 | 54 | 13 | 41 |
| 1993/94 | 54 | 11 | 43 |