Jonah Special School
Slieverue · Roll number 20380B
- Special school
- Autism
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Some subjects through Irish
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 12
- No change on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +9%
- Up 1 from 11 in 2015/16. Opened in 2010/11, so it was still adding classes
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 2010
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 Jonah 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
2teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 6 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 2
7 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 2 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 7 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 Jonah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonah Special SchoolThis school | – | 12 |
+9.1%
|
|
| 1 | St Josephs Special SCH3.9 km · Waterford · Mild general learning disability | 3.9 km | 96 |
+7.9%
|
| 2 | St Martins Special SCH4.9 km · Waterford · Moderate general learning disability | 4.9 km | 100 |
+42.9%
|
| 3 | Saplings Special School38.9 km · Goresbridge, Co. Kilkenny · Autism | 38.9 km | 12 |
0.0%
|
| 4 | Coláiste Shliabh na mBan40.5 km · Clonmel, Co. Tipperary | 40.5 km | 12 |
−14.3%
|
| 5 | St Patricks Spec SCH41.1 km · Kilkenny · Moderate general learning disability | 41.1 km | 91 |
+23.0%
|
Special classes within 10 km29 classes in 15 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | St Stephens N S4.0 km · An autism class | 4.0 km | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Mount Sion CBS N S4.4 km · 3 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 4.4 km | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | An Teaghlaigh Naofa Girls Junior National School4.5 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 4.5 km | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Our Lady of Mercy Senior P.S.4.5 km · An autism class | 4.5 km | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | S N Ursula Naofa4.9 km · 2 autism classes | 4.9 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Presentation Primary School5.0 km · 2 speech and language classesA new class in 2026/27 | 5.0 km | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | Scoil Lorcain BNS5.0 km · 4 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 5.0 km | 4 | 5 |
| 13 | St Pauls B N S5.7 km · 2 autism classes | 5.7 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
- Caitríona Barry
- Phone
- 051833269
- [email protected]
- Address
- Old V.E.C. Building, Slieverue, Co. Kilkenny, X91 D6DY
School
- Ethos
- Multi Denominational
- NCSE designation
- Autism
- Patron
- Irish Autism Action
- School type
- Special school
- DEIS
- Not DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- Some subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Kilkenny County Council
- Planning area
- Waterford
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
16 school years from 2010/11 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 12 | – | 12 |
| 2024/25 | 12 | – | 12 |
| 2023/24 | 12 | – | 12 |
| 2022/23 | 12 | – | 12 |
| 2021/22 | 12 | – | 12 |
| 2020/21 | 12 | 1 | 11 |
| 2019/20 | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2018/19 | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 2017/18 | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2016/17 | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 2015/16 | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2014/15 | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2013/14 | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 2012/13 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2011/12 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2010/11 | 7 | 1 | 6 |