St Marys Spec SCH
Rochestown · Roll number 19759T
- Special school
- Mild general learning disability
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 85
- +4 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +42%
- Up 25 from 60 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 26 / 59
- 31% 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 Marys Spec SCH, 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
13teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 6.5 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 13
23 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 13 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 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 Marys 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 Marys Spec SCHThis school | – | 85 |
+41.7%
|
|
| 1 | Rochestown Community Special School1.4 km · Cork City · Community special school | 1.4 km | 66 | – |
| 2 | Sonas Special Primary Junior School4.1 km · Ardnacloghy, Co. Cork · Autism | 4.1 km | 48 |
+14.3%
|
| 3 | Carrigaline Community Special School4.5 km · Carrigaline, Co. Cork · Community special school | 4.5 km | 47 | – |
| 4 | School of the Divine Child (Scoil an Linbh Íosa)5.4 km · Cork · Physical disability | 5.4 km | 46 |
+53.3%
|
| 5 | Scoil Triest5.5 km · Glanmire, Co. Cork · Multiple disabilities | 5.5 km | 72 |
+1.4%
|
Special classes within 10 km155 classes in 63 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Scoil Phadraig Naofa1.8 km · 2 autism classes | 1.8 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Star of the Sea Primary School2.8 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 2.8 km | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Douglas Rochestown Educate Together National School3.2 km · 3 autism classes | 3.2 km | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Monkstown N S3.5 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 3.5 km | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Gaelscoil Mhachan3.8 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 3.8 km | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Shanbally N S3.8 km · A speech and language class | 3.8 km | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Owenabue ETNS3.9 km · 2 autism classes | 3.9 km | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Gaelscoil Charraig Ui Leighin4.0 km · An autism class | 4.0 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
- Samantha Rice
- Phone
- 0214891431
- [email protected]
- Address
- Oldcourt, Rochestown, T12 PV05
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Mild general learning disability
- Patron
- Brothers of Charity (Southern Services) Brother John O'Shea
- 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
- Cork City Council
- Planning area
- Passage West
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 | 85 | 26 | 59 |
| 2024/25 | 81 | 22 | 59 |
| 2023/24 | 72 | 20 | 52 |
| 2022/23 | 72 | 25 | 47 |
| 2021/22 | 60 | 24 | 36 |
| 2020/21 | 58 | 27 | 31 |
| 2019/20 | 66 | 31 | 35 |
| 2018/19 | 62 | 27 | 35 |
| 2017/18 | 58 | 23 | 35 |
| 2016/17 | 52 | 18 | 34 |
| 2015/16 | 60 | 18 | 42 |
| 2014/15 | 65 | 23 | 42 |
| 2013/14 | 63 | 23 | 40 |
| 2012/13 | 62 | 26 | 36 |
| 2011/12 | 57 | 22 | 35 |
| 2010/11 | 53 | 19 | 34 |
| 2009/10 | 46 | 17 | 29 |
| 2008/09 | 53 | 19 | 34 |
| 2007/08 | 53 | 15 | 38 |
| 2006/07 | 52 | 18 | 34 |
| 2005/06 | 56 | 16 | 40 |
| 2004/05 | 57 | 15 | 42 |
| 2003/04 | 63 | 18 | 45 |
| 2002/03 | 62 | 16 | 46 |
| 2001/02 | 65 | 15 | 50 |
| 2000/01 | 76 | 18 | 58 |
| 1999/00 | 76 | 19 | 57 |
| 1998/99 | 86 | 22 | 64 |
| 1997/98 | 90 | 23 | 67 |
| 1996/97 | 97 | 24 | 73 |
| 1995/96 | 109 | 29 | 80 |
| 1994/95 | 95 | 24 | 71 |
| 1993/94 | 98 | 22 | 76 |