Rosedale School
Galway · Roll number 20070J
- Special school
- Severe or profound general learning disability
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 75
- +2 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +10%
- Up 7 from 68 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 29 / 46
- 39% 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 1998
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 Rosedale 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
13teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 5.8 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 13
37 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 14 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 41 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 Rosedale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosedale SchoolThis school | – | 75 |
+10.3%
|
|
| 1 | Lakeview School0.1 km · Galway · Mild general learning disability | 0.1 km | 76 |
+61.7%
|
| 2 | Scoil Aine2.7 km · Galway | 2.7 km | 45 |
+95.7%
|
| 3 | St Josephs Special SCH3.0 km · Newcastle, Co. Galway · Moderate general learning disability | 3.0 km | 80 |
+11.1%
|
| 4 | Ábalta Special School3.7 km · Galway · Autism | 3.7 km | 30 |
+66.7%
|
| 5 | St. Oliver's Child Education and Development Centre28.3 km · Tuam, Co. Galway · Severe or profound general learning disability | 28.3 km | 40 |
+66.7%
|
Special classes within 10 km47 classes in 19 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | S N Caitriona Sois0.7 km · 2 speech and language classes, a moderate general learning disability class and a hearing impairment classA new class in 2026/27 | 0.7 km | 4 | 5 |
| 7 | SN Caitriona Sinsear0.7 km · A moderate general learning disability class, a hearing impairment class and a specific learning disability classA new class in 2026/27 | 0.7 km | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | Radharc na Mara National School1.0 km · 4 autism classes2 new classes in 2026/27 | 1.0 km | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | Gaelscoil Dara1.1 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 1.1 km | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Tirellan Heights N S1.6 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 1.6 km | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Parochial N S1.8 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 1.8 km | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Scoil an Linbh Iosa1.8 km · An autism class | 1.8 km | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | S N Padraic Naofa2.0 km · 2 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 2.0 km | 2 | 3 |
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
- Paula Kelly
- Phone
- 091779600
- [email protected]
- Address
- Woodlands Centre, Renmore, Galway, H91 PC96
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Severe or profound general learning disability
- Patron
- Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh & Kilfenora
- 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
- Galway City Council
- Planning area
- Galway 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
28 school years from 1998/99 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 75 | 29 | 46 |
| 2024/25 | 73 | 27 | 46 |
| 2023/24 | 75 | 28 | 47 |
| 2022/23 | 69 | 29 | 40 |
| 2021/22 | 69 | 27 | 42 |
| 2020/21 | 65 | 27 | 38 |
| 2019/20 | 67 | 27 | 40 |
| 2018/19 | 62 | 21 | 41 |
| 2017/18 | 68 | 26 | 42 |
| 2016/17 | 66 | 27 | 39 |
| 2015/16 | 68 | 28 | 40 |
| 2014/15 | 68 | 24 | 44 |
| 2013/14 | 67 | 23 | 44 |
| 2012/13 | 64 | 23 | 41 |
| 2011/12 | 67 | 19 | 48 |
| 2010/11 | 65 | 19 | 46 |
| 2009/10 | 62 | 21 | 41 |
| 2008/09 | 55 | 17 | 38 |
| 2007/08 | 48 | 14 | 34 |
| 2006/07 | 51 | 13 | 38 |
| 2005/06 | 54 | 19 | 35 |
| 2004/05 | 53 | 18 | 35 |
| 2003/04 | 46 | 14 | 32 |
| 2002/03 | 50 | 13 | 37 |
| 2001/02 | 49 | 15 | 34 |
| 2000/01 | 53 | 19 | 34 |
| 1999/00 | 35 | 12 | 23 |
| 1998/99 | 30 | 10 | 20 |