St Joseph's Adolescent School
Dublin 3 · Roll number 20153N
- Special school
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 11
- +2 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- −48%
- Down 10 from 21 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 6 / 5
- 55% 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 2002
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
Nearby
The special schools closest to St Joseph's Adolescent 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 Joseph's Adolescent SchoolThis school | – | 11 |
−47.6%
|
|
| 1 | St Josephs For Blind NS0.6 km · Dublin 9 · Blind or vision-impaired pupils | 0.6 km | 48 |
−9.4%
|
| 2 | St L O Tooles 2 Spec1.1 km · Dublin 1 | 1.1 km | 14 |
−39.1%
|
| 3 | An Taonad Reamhscoile1.2 km · Baile Atha Cliath 1, Co. Dublin | 1.2 km | 96 |
+5.5%
|
| 4 | Hospital School CHI at Temple Street1.4 km · Dublin 1 | 1.4 km | 66 |
+8.2%
|
| 5 | Henrietta Street School2.2 km · Dublin 1 | 2.2 km | 20 |
+11.1%
|
Special classes within 10 km274 classes in 150 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | St Marys N S0.5 km · An autism class | 0.5 km | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Grace Park Educate Together National School0.8 km · 2 autism classes2 new classes in 2026/27 | 0.8 km | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | Scoil Ui Chonaill Boys Seniors0.8 km · 2 autism classes | 0.8 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | St Joseph¿s Primary School, An Edmund Rice School0.8 km · 3 autism classes | 0.8 km | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | S N San Vinseann Cailin0.9 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 0.9 km | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | St Patricks N School1.0 km · 2 speech and language classes and an autism class | 1.0 km | 3 | 3 |
| 12 | Naomh Lorcan O Tuathail Senior Boys1.3 km · 2 autism classes | 1.3 km | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Corpus Christi N S1.4 km · 2 autism classes | 1.4 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
- Michael O'Brien
- Phone
- 018842476
- [email protected]
- Address
- St Vincent;s Hospital, Richmond Road, Dublin 3, D03 HN80
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- Patron
- Archbishop of Dublin
- 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
- Dublin City Council
- Planning area
- Drumcondra–Marino–Dublin1
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
24 school years from 2002/03 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 11 | 6 | 5 |
| 2024/25 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| 2023/24 | 13 | 9 | 4 |
| 2022/23 | 10 | 7 | 3 |
| 2021/22 | 14 | 7 | 7 |
| 2020/21 | 16 | 13 | 3 |
| 2019/20 | 13 | 10 | 3 |
| 2018/19 | 19 | 9 | 10 |
| 2017/18 | 18 | 10 | 8 |
| 2016/17 | 21 | 16 | 5 |
| 2015/16 | 21 | 8 | 13 |
| 2014/15 | 20 | 9 | 11 |
| 2013/14 | 20 | 10 | 10 |
| 2012/13 | 18 | 7 | 11 |
| 2011/12 | 17 | 10 | 7 |
| 2010/11 | 19 | 8 | 11 |
| 2009/10 | 16 | 8 | 8 |
| 2008/09 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2007/08 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2006/07 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2005/06 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004/05 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2003/04 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2002/03 | 7 | 2 | 5 |