St Gabriels School
Limerick · Roll number 19603L
- Special school
- Physical disability
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 64
- −1 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +10%
- Up 6 from 58 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 27 / 37
- 42% 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 Gabriels 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
10teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 6.4 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 10
27.25 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 10 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 27.25 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 Gabriels 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 Gabriels SchoolThis school | – | 64 |
+10.3%
|
|
| 1 | The Childrens Ark0.2 km · Limerick | 0.2 km | 44 |
+120.0%
|
| 2 | Catherine MC Auley SP S1.7 km · Limerick · Mild general learning disability | 1.7 km | 278 |
+16.8%
|
| 3 | Mid West School For the Deaf1.7 km · Limerick · School for deaf pupils | 1.7 km | 44 |
+57.1%
|
| 4 | Limerick Community Special School2.2 km · Limerick · Community special school | 2.2 km | 47 | – |
| 5 | St Augustines Spec SCH3.1 km · Limerick | 3.1 km | 24 |
0.0%
|
Special classes within 10 km54 classes in 28 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Scoil Neassain1.4 km · An autism class | 1.4 km | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Our Lady of Lourdes N S1.7 km · 2 autism classes | 1.7 km | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | Scoil Mathair de1.9 km · 2 autism classes and 2 speech and language classes | 1.9 km | 4 | 4 |
| 9 | Limerick City East Educate Together NS2.2 km · 2 autism classes and an early intervention class | 2.2 km | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | Our Lady Queen of Peace School2.3 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 2.3 km | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Gaelscoil Sheoirse2.9 km · An early intervention class and an autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 2.9 km | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | Le Chéile National School2.9 km · 2 autism classes and an emotional disturbance class | 2.9 km | 3 | 3 |
| 13 | Presentation Primary School3.1 km · 2 autism classes | 3.1 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
- Derek Cox
- Phone
- 061302733
- [email protected]
- Address
- Crabtree House, Springfield Drive, Dooradoyle, Limerick, V94 PY90
School
- Ethos
- Multi Denominational
- NCSE designation
- Physical disability
- Patron
- St Gabriel's School and Centre
- 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 | 64 | 27 | 37 |
| 2024/25 | 65 | 27 | 38 |
| 2023/24 | 64 | 28 | 36 |
| 2022/23 | 59 | 23 | 36 |
| 2021/22 | 60 | 25 | 35 |
| 2020/21 | 62 | 25 | 37 |
| 2019/20 | 65 | 25 | 40 |
| 2018/19 | 68 | 25 | 43 |
| 2017/18 | 68 | 28 | 40 |
| 2016/17 | 67 | 29 | 38 |
| 2015/16 | 58 | 24 | 34 |
| 2014/15 | 49 | 20 | 29 |
| 2013/14 | 49 | 22 | 27 |
| 2012/13 | 46 | 20 | 26 |
| 2011/12 | 46 | 20 | 26 |
| 2010/11 | 39 | 15 | 24 |
| 2009/10 | 40 | 17 | 23 |
| 2008/09 | 39 | 14 | 25 |
| 2007/08 | 43 | 16 | 27 |
| 2006/07 | 38 | 12 | 26 |
| 2005/06 | 33 | 12 | 21 |
| 2004/05 | 35 | 12 | 23 |
| 2003/04 | 36 | 12 | 24 |
| 2002/03 | 35 | 12 | 23 |
| 2001/02 | 39 | 14 | 25 |
| 2000/01 | 43 | 18 | 25 |
| 1999/00 | 43 | 18 | 25 |
| 1998/99 | 47 | 19 | 28 |
| 1997/98 | 48 | 19 | 29 |
| 1996/97 | 48 | 21 | 27 |
| 1995/96 | 44 | 19 | 25 |
| 1994/95 | 36 | 17 | 19 |
| 1993/94 | 40 | 15 | 25 |