Scoil Mochua
Dublin 22 · Roll number 19590F
- Special school
- Physical disability
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 69
- −7 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +10%
- Up 6 from 63 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 30 / 39
- 43% 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 Scoil Mochua, 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
11teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 6.3 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 11
36.5 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 11 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 36.5 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 Scoil Mochua, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil MochuaThis school | – | 69 |
+9.5%
|
|
| 1 | Stewarts School2.6 km · Lucan, Co. Dublin · Moderate general learning disability | 2.6 km | 145 |
+16.9%
|
| 2 | Linn Dara Schools4.1 km · Dublin 10 | 4.1 km | 51 |
+155.0%
|
| 3 | Ballydowd High Support Special School4.3 km · Palmerstown, Co. Dublin | 4.3 km | 7 |
−22.2%
|
| 4 | The Adelaide and Meath Hospital4.3 km · Dublin 24 | 4.3 km | 11 |
−15.4%
|
| 5 | ABACAS Special School for Children with Autism4.9 km · Dublin 24 · Autism | 4.9 km | 30 |
+87.5%
|
Special classes within 10 km264 classes in 145 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | St Ronans N S0.5 km · 2 autism classesFirst special classes open in 2026/27 | 0.5 km | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Scoil Nano Nagle1.0 km · 3 autism classes | 1.0 km | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | Talbot Senior NS1.0 km · An autism class2 new classes in 2026/27 | 1.0 km | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Gaelscoil Chluain Dolcain1.5 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 1.5 km | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Sacred Heart N S1.5 km · 3 autism classes | 1.5 km | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | Scoil Mhuire1.9 km · An autism class | 1.9 km | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Scoil Naomh Seosamh1.9 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 1.9 km | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Gaelscoil na Camoige2.1 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 2.1 km | 0 | 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
- Sophia Casey
- Phone
- 018542594
- [email protected]
- Address
- Old Nangor Road, Deansrath, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, D22 KF84
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Physical disability
- Patron
- Central Remedial Clinic
- 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
- South Dublin County Council
- Planning area
- Clondalkin–D22
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 | 69 | 30 | 39 |
| 2024/25 | 76 | 34 | 42 |
| 2023/24 | 73 | 30 | 43 |
| 2022/23 | 70 | 27 | 43 |
| 2021/22 | 69 | 27 | 42 |
| 2020/21 | 70 | 26 | 44 |
| 2019/20 | 74 | 26 | 48 |
| 2018/19 | 73 | 26 | 47 |
| 2017/18 | 72 | 22 | 50 |
| 2016/17 | 66 | 23 | 43 |
| 2015/16 | 63 | 20 | 43 |
| 2014/15 | 57 | 20 | 37 |
| 2013/14 | 57 | 21 | 36 |
| 2012/13 | 51 | 18 | 33 |
| 2011/12 | 51 | 15 | 36 |
| 2010/11 | 50 | 15 | 35 |
| 2009/10 | 54 | 16 | 38 |
| 2008/09 | 50 | 18 | 32 |
| 2007/08 | 53 | 19 | 34 |
| 2006/07 | 54 | 19 | 35 |
| 2005/06 | 56 | 20 | 36 |
| 2004/05 | 62 | 24 | 38 |
| 2003/04 | 66 | 27 | 39 |
| 2002/03 | 69 | 29 | 40 |
| 2001/02 | 66 | 35 | 31 |
| 2000/01 | 76 | 38 | 38 |
| 1999/00 | 72 | 34 | 38 |
| 1998/99 | 70 | 36 | 34 |
| 1997/98 | 68 | 36 | 32 |
| 1996/97 | 70 | 37 | 33 |
| 1995/96 | 68 | 37 | 31 |
| 1994/95 | 69 | 39 | 30 |
| 1993/94 | 65 | 34 | 31 |