Red Door Special School
Monkstown · Roll number 20381D
- Special school
- Autism
- Other/Unknown ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 29
- −1 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +142%
- Up 17 from 12 in 2015/16. Opened in 2011/12, so it was still adding classes
- Girls and boys
- 6 / 23
- 21% 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 2011
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 Red Door 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
6teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 4.8 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 6
24.5 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 5 teaching posts and 2 exceptional posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 23.5 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 Red Door 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Door Special SchoolThis school | – | 29 |
+141.7%
|
|
| 1 | St Oliver Plunkett SP SC0.6 km · Blackrock, Co. Dublin · Specific learning disability | 0.6 km | 63 |
0.0%
|
| 2 | Our Lady of Lourdes School1.3 km · Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin | 1.3 km | 6 |
+20.0%
|
| 3 | Carmona Special National School1.5 km · Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin · Severe or profound general learning disability | 1.5 km | 37 |
+5.7%
|
| 4 | St Augustines School1.8 km · Blackrock, Co. Dublin · Mild general learning disability | 1.8 km | 157 |
−9.8%
|
| 5 | Setanta Special School2.3 km · Stillorgan, Co. Dublin · Autism | 2.3 km | 68 |
+17.2%
|
Special classes within 10 km96 classes in 60 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Holy Family School0.1 km · 2 autism classes | 0.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Monkstown Eucate Together NS0.8 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 0.8 km | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | St Josephs1.0 km · A moderate general learning disability class | 1.0 km | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Kill-O'-The-Grange NS1.1 km · An autism class | 1.1 km | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Clochar San Dominic1.3 km · 2 autism classes | 1.3 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Scoil Padraig Naofa B1.5 km · An autism class2 new classes in 2026/27 | 1.5 km | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Sallynoggin Educate Together National School1.8 km · An autism class | 1.8 km | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | The Harold School2.0 km · An autism class | 2.0 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
- Conan Byrne
- Phone
- 016637532
- [email protected]
- Address
- Monkstown Grove, Monkstown Avenue, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, A94 D3H7
School
- Ethos
- Other/Unknown
- NCSE designation
- Autism
- Patron
- Irish Autism Action
- 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
- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
- Planning area
- Dunlaoghaire
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
15 school years from 2011/12 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 29 | 6 | 23 |
| 2024/25 | 30 | 5 | 25 |
| 2023/24 | 30 | 5 | 25 |
| 2022/23 | 29 | 4 | 25 |
| 2021/22 | 29 | 4 | 25 |
| 2020/21 | 23 | 2 | 21 |
| 2019/20 | 24 | 2 | 22 |
| 2018/19 | 23 | 1 | 22 |
| 2017/18 | 12 | – | 12 |
| 2016/17 | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2015/16 | 12 | 1 | 11 |
| 2014/15 | 11 | 2 | 9 |
| 2013/14 | 12 | 3 | 9 |
| 2012/13 | 11 | 5 | 6 |
| 2011/12 | 12 | 5 | 7 |