St Catherines Special School
Greystones · Roll number 19522L
- Special school
- Moderate general learning disability
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 89
- No change on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- −22%
- Down 25 from 114 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 26 / 63
- 29% 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 Catherines Special School, 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
15teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 5.9 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 15
45 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 15 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 48.83 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 Catherines Special School, 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 Catherines Special SchoolThis school | – | 89 |
−21.9%
|
|
| 1 | New Court School12.1 km · Bray, Co. Wicklow · Mild general learning disability | 12.1 km | 100 |
+4.2%
|
| 2 | Marino School N.S.13.1 km · Bray, Co. Wicklow · Physical disability | 13.1 km | 47 |
+34.3%
|
| 3 | St Kierans Spec School14.6 km · Bray, Co. Wicklow | 14.6 km | 59 |
+1.7%
|
| 4 | Ballyowen Meadows18.8 km · Stillorgan, Co. Dublin · Autism | 18.8 km | 53 |
+35.9%
|
| 5 | Our Lady of Lourdes School22.0 km · Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin | 22.0 km | 6 |
+20.0%
|
Special classes within 10 km20 classes in 10 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Newtownmountkennedy Primary School1.8 km · 4 autism classes | 1.8 km | 4 | 4 |
| 7 | Greystones Community NS5.3 km · 3 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 5.3 km | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | St Laurences N S6.7 km · An autism class and a mild general learning disability class | 6.7 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Scoil na Coróine Mhuire7.3 km · An autism class | 7.3 km | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Scoil Naomh Caoimhghin7.7 km · An autism class and a speech and language class | 7.7 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | St Brigids School7.7 km · An autism class | 7.7 km | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | St Patrick's National School7.8 km · An early intervention class and an autism class | 7.8 km | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Gaelscoil na gCloch Liath7.9 km · An autism class | 7.9 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
- Clare Carr
- Phone
- 012819525
- [email protected]
- Address
- Kilmullen Lane, Newcastle, Greystones, Co. Wicklow, A63 X985
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Moderate general learning disability
- Patron
- St Catherine's Association
- 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
- Wicklow County Council
- Planning area
- Kilcoole
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 | 89 | 26 | 63 |
| 2024/25 | 89 | 29 | 60 |
| 2023/24 | 90 | 29 | 61 |
| 2022/23 | 93 | 30 | 63 |
| 2021/22 | 93 | 31 | 62 |
| 2020/21 | 94 | 30 | 64 |
| 2019/20 | 94 | 30 | 64 |
| 2018/19 | 96 | 29 | 67 |
| 2017/18 | 93 | 30 | 63 |
| 2016/17 | 99 | 32 | 67 |
| 2015/16 | 114 | 37 | 77 |
| 2014/15 | 138 | 44 | 94 |
| 2013/14 | 140 | 40 | 100 |
| 2012/13 | 143 | 44 | 99 |
| 2011/12 | 116 | 34 | 82 |
| 2010/11 | 105 | 29 | 76 |
| 2009/10 | 103 | 25 | 78 |
| 2008/09 | 97 | 31 | 66 |
| 2007/08 | 98 | 32 | 66 |
| 2006/07 | 83 | 32 | 51 |
| 2005/06 | 80 | 31 | 49 |
| 2004/05 | 63 | 26 | 37 |
| 2003/04 | 63 | 26 | 37 |
| 2002/03 | 65 | 30 | 35 |
| 2001/02 | 65 | 31 | 34 |
| 2000/01 | 72 | 36 | 36 |
| 1999/00 | 69 | 34 | 35 |
| 1998/99 | 68 | 32 | 36 |
| 1997/98 | 52 | 28 | 24 |
| 1996/97 | 52 | 28 | 24 |
| 1995/96 | 54 | 26 | 28 |
| 1994/95 | 54 | 30 | 24 |
| 1993/94 | 58 | 28 | 30 |