St Augustines Spec SCH
Limerick · Roll number 19587Q
- Special school
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 24
- No change on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- 0%
- No change from 24 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 4 / 20
- 17% 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
Nearby
The special schools closest to St Augustines Spec SCH, 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 Augustines Spec SCHThis school | – | 24 |
0.0%
|
|
| 1 | St Canices Special School1.0 km · Mulgrave St, Co. Limerick | 1.0 km | 7 |
−53.3%
|
| 2 | Mid West School For the Deaf1.5 km · Limerick · School for deaf pupils | 1.5 km | 44 |
+57.1%
|
| 3 | Catherine MC Auley SP S1.7 km · Limerick · Mild general learning disability | 1.7 km | 278 |
+16.8%
|
| 4 | St Gabriels School3.1 km · Limerick · Physical disability | 3.1 km | 64 |
+10.3%
|
| 5 | The Childrens Ark3.4 km · Limerick | 3.4 km | 44 |
+120.0%
|
Special classes within 10 km55 classes in 29 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Presentation Primary School0.2 km · 2 autism classes | 0.2 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Scoil Iosagain0.2 km · 2 autism classes | 0.2 km | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | St Michaels NS0.2 km · 2 autism classes | 0.2 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | St Johns Convent0.5 km · An autism class and a speech and language class | 0.5 km | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | St John the Baptist Boys N S0.7 km · 2 autism classes | 0.7 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | St Mary's National School1.0 km · 2 autism classes | 1.0 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Salesian Primary School1.2 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 1.2 km | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Scoil Padraig Naofa B1.2 km · An autism class | 1.2 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
- Maeve Lynch
- Phone
- 061311137
- [email protected]
- Address
- Sexton Street, Limerick, V94 X339
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- Patron
- Bishop of Limerick
- 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
- Limerick City Council
- Planning area
- Limerick City
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 | 24 | 4 | 20 |
| 2024/25 | 24 | 5 | 19 |
| 2023/24 | 23 | 5 | 18 |
| 2022/23 | 24 | 5 | 19 |
| 2021/22 | 24 | 5 | 19 |
| 2020/21 | 21 | 4 | 17 |
| 2019/20 | 24 | 4 | 20 |
| 2018/19 | 19 | 5 | 14 |
| 2017/18 | 24 | 7 | 17 |
| 2016/17 | 24 | 8 | 16 |
| 2015/16 | 24 | 7 | 17 |
| 2014/15 | 24 | 8 | 16 |
| 2013/14 | 24 | 7 | 17 |
| 2012/13 | 23 | 5 | 18 |
| 2011/12 | 22 | 6 | 16 |
| 2010/11 | 22 | 7 | 15 |
| 2009/10 | 24 | 8 | 16 |
| 2008/09 | 23 | 7 | 16 |
| 2007/08 | 22 | 8 | 14 |
| 2006/07 | 23 | 9 | 14 |
| 2005/06 | 22 | 5 | 17 |
| 2004/05 | 17 | 2 | 15 |
| 2003/04 | 25 | 4 | 21 |
| 2002/03 | 25 | 4 | 21 |
| 2001/02 | 25 | 5 | 20 |
| 2000/01 | 25 | 5 | 20 |
| 1999/00 | 25 | 4 | 21 |
| 1998/99 | 25 | 6 | 19 |
| 1997/98 | 22 | 4 | 18 |
| 1996/97 | 24 | 7 | 17 |
| 1995/96 | 25 | 6 | 19 |
| 1994/95 | 25 | 3 | 22 |
| 1993/94 | 24 | 5 | 19 |