St Gabriels Special School
Cork. · Roll number 20074R
- Special school
- Severe or profound general learning disability
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 54
- +4 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +42%
- Up 16 from 38 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 16 / 38
- 30% 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 St Gabriels Special 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
9teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 6 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 9
35 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 9 teaching posts and 1 exceptional post, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 35 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 Special 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 Special SchoolThis school | – | 54 |
+42.1%
|
|
| 1 | Cork University Hos School1.9 km · Cork | 1.9 km | 17 |
−5.6%
|
| 2 | Our Lady of Good Counsel NS5.0 km · Cork · Moderate general learning disability | 5.0 km | 68 |
0.0%
|
| 3 | St Kevins School5.1 km · Cork | 5.1 km | 10 |
−16.7%
|
| 4 | Scoil Aislinn5.9 km · Cork · Autism | 5.9 km | 36 |
+2.9%
|
| 5 | Scoil Eanna7.2 km · Cork · Mild general learning disability | 7.2 km | 66 |
−1.5%
|
Special classes within 10 km136 classes in 57 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Muire gan Smal C2.8 km · A moderate general learning disability class | 2.8 km | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | S N Athair Maitiu C2.8 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 2.8 km | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | S N B Togher Cork2.8 km · 2 autism classes | 2.8 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Scoil Mhuire gan Smal B2.8 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 2.8 km | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Gael Scoil Ui Riordain2.9 km · 3 autism classes | 2.9 km | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | Scoil Mhuire ar Chnoc hAoine3.6 km · 3 autism classes and a mild general learning disability classA new class in 2026/27 | 3.6 km | 4 | 5 |
| 12 | Clogheen MXD N S3.8 km · 2 autism classes | 3.8 km | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | South Lee Educate Together National School3.8 km · 2 autism classes | 3.8 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
- David Thomas
- Phone
- 0214544068
- [email protected]
- Address
- Murphy's Farm,, Curraheen Rd.,, Bishopstown,, Cork., T12 EK57
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Severe or profound 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
- Glasheen–CorkCity
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 | 54 | 16 | 38 |
| 2024/25 | 50 | 14 | 36 |
| 2023/24 | 42 | 14 | 28 |
| 2022/23 | 40 | 10 | 30 |
| 2021/22 | 43 | 10 | 33 |
| 2020/21 | 43 | 9 | 34 |
| 2019/20 | 43 | 10 | 33 |
| 2018/19 | 41 | 12 | 29 |
| 2017/18 | 43 | 10 | 33 |
| 2016/17 | 43 | 9 | 34 |
| 2015/16 | 38 | 6 | 32 |
| 2014/15 | 36 | 6 | 30 |
| 2013/14 | 38 | 8 | 30 |
| 2012/13 | 36 | 8 | 28 |
| 2011/12 | 37 | 8 | 29 |
| 2010/11 | 38 | 6 | 32 |
| 2009/10 | 37 | 6 | 31 |
| 2008/09 | 33 | 7 | 26 |
| 2007/08 | 34 | 9 | 25 |
| 2006/07 | 33 | 8 | 25 |
| 2005/06 | 29 | 4 | 25 |
| 2004/05 | 28 | 5 | 23 |
| 2003/04 | 31 | 6 | 25 |
| 2002/03 | 30 | 6 | 24 |
| 2001/02 | 30 | 8 | 22 |
| 2000/01 | 31 | 9 | 22 |
| 1999/00 | 28 | 8 | 20 |
| 1998/99 | 3 | 0 | 3 |