Kildare Town Educate Together NS
Kildare Town · Roll number 20403K
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Ordinary with Special Classes
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 417
- −3 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +154%
- Up 253 from 164 in 2015/16. Opened in 2012/13, so it was still adding classes
- Girls and boys
- 218 / 199
- 52% girls
Pupils since 2012
Total enrolment each school year
Shaded: the last 10 years, 2015/16 to 2025/26.
Pupils by class
Published for each class from 2020/21.
This year, 2025/26
417 pupils across 8 classes
Every class, every year
Darker cells have more pupils. A group of pupils moves down one class and right one year.
| 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Infants | 51 | 55 | 52 | 51 | 46 | 50 | 50.8 |
| Senior Infants | 56 | 46 | 57 | 51 | 52 | 46 | 51.3 |
| 1st Class | 57 | 54 | 46 | 56 | 51 | 53 | 52.8 |
| 2nd Class | 56 | 56 | 54 | 49 | 56 | 53 | 54.0 |
| 3rd Class | 55 | 54 | 55 | 51 | 51 | 55 | 53.5 |
| 4th Class | 57 | 54 | 55 | 53 | 52 | 54 | 54.2 |
| 5th Class | 41 | 56 | 52 | 54 | 53 | 53 | 51.5 |
| 6th Class | 50 | 41 | 56 | 51 | 54 | 53 | 50.8 |
JI and SI are Junior and Senior Infants.
Started Junior Infants in 2024/25
46 in Junior Infants (2024/25), 46 in Senior Infants (2025/26): no change.
- 46Junior Infants2024/25
- 46Senior Infants2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2023/24
51 in Junior Infants (2023/24), 53 in 1st Class (2025/26): 2 pupils more.
- 51Junior Infants2023/24
- 52Senior Infants2024/25
- 531st Class2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2022/23
52 in Junior Infants (2022/23), 53 in 2nd Class (2025/26): 1 pupil more.
- 52Junior Infants2022/23
- 51Senior Infants2023/24
- 511st Class2024/25
- 532nd Class2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2021/22
55 in Junior Infants (2021/22), 55 in 3rd Class (2025/26): no change.
- 55Junior Infants2021/22
- 57Senior Infants2022/23
- 561st Class2023/24
- 562nd Class2024/25
- 553rd Class2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2020/21
51 in Junior Infants (2020/21), 54 in 4th Class (2025/26): 3 pupils more.
- 51Junior Infants2020/21
- 46Senior Infants2021/22
- 461st Class2022/23
- 492nd Class2023/24
- 513rd Class2024/25
- 544th Class2025/26
In Senior Infants in 2020/21
56 in Senior Infants (2020/21), 53 in 5th Class (2025/26): 3 pupils fewer.
- 56Senior Infants2020/21
- 541st Class2021/22
- 542nd Class2022/23
- 513rd Class2023/24
- 524th Class2024/25
- 535th Class2025/26
In 1st Class in 2020/21
57 in 1st Class (2020/21), 53 in 6th Class (2025/26): 4 pupils fewer.
- 571st Class2020/21
- 562nd Class2021/22
- 553rd Class2022/23
- 534th Class2023/24
- 535th Class2024/25
- 536th Class2025/26
In 2nd Class in 2020/21
56 in 2nd Class (2020/21), 54 in 6th Class (2024/25): 2 pupils fewer.
- 562nd Class2020/21
- 543rd Class2021/22
- 554th Class2022/23
- 545th Class2023/24
- 546th Class2024/25
In 3rd Class in 2020/21
55 in 3rd Class (2020/21), 51 in 6th Class (2023/24): 4 pupils fewer.
- 553rd Class2020/21
- 544th Class2021/22
- 525th Class2022/23
- 516th Class2023/24
In 4th Class in 2020/21
57 in 4th Class (2020/21), 56 in 6th Class (2022/23): 1 pupil fewer.
- 574th Class2020/21
- 565th Class2021/22
- 566th Class2022/23
In 5th Class in 2020/21
41 in 5th Class (2020/21), 41 in 6th Class (2021/22): no change.
- 415th Class2020/21
- 416th Class2021/22
Biggest one-year changes in a class
- +155th Class in 2021/22 (41 to 56)
- −10Senior Infants in 2021/22 (56 to 46)
Class sizes
Mainstream class groups, 2012/13 to 2025/26.
Why these won't match pupils by class
Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to. So these figures won't match the pupils-by-class figures exactly.
In 2025/26. Choose a figure to chart it.
Class sizes over time
Average class size, 2012/13 to 2025/26
Teachers
Who teaches at Kildare Town Educate Together NS, 2012/13 to 2025/26.
How we count teachers
Class teachers come from the Department of Education's class sizes: one for each mainstream class. Special education and special class teachers are the posts the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates. We add a principal who doesn't teach a class where the Department's rules give the school one. These are posts, not people: part of a post can be a teacher shared with another school. Up to 2015/16 the Department counted every teacher itself. Known data issues
In 2025/26
25.8teaching posts
Our estimate: about 26 teachers.
- Class teachersOne for each of the 16 mainstream classes 16
- PrincipalRuns the school and doesn't teach a class 1
- Special education teachers170 hours of support teaching a week 6.8
- Special class teachersFor 2 autism classes 2
9 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils. 11 pupils are in special classes, which the class sizes leave out.
The NCSE has allocated 6.8 special education teachers, 2 special class teachers and 9.83 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2012/13
Teachers each school year, by role
To 2015/16: the Department of Education's count of every teacher. From 2019/20: our estimate, from class sizes and the NCSE's allocations. Dashed boxes: no special education figures were published for those years, so only class teachers and the principal are shown. Where there's no principal bar, the principal also taught a class. Known data issues
Sources: Department of Education class sizes and teacher counts; NCSE school allocations and special classes (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby schools
The 6 primary schools closest to Kildare Town Educate Together NS, measured in a straight line. Pupil numbers are for 2025/26.
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kildare Town Educate Together NSThis school | – | 417 |
+154.3%
|
|
| 1 | Gaelscoil Mhic Aodha0.1 km · Baile Chill Dara · Gaelscoil · Multi-denominational | 0.1 km | 215 |
+283.9%
|
| 2 | St Brigid's Kildare Town Primary School0.9 km · Kildare Town · DEIS | 0.9 km | 1,025 |
+2.8%
|
| 3 | St. Catherine of Sienna5.1 km · Kildare · Some subjects through Irish · DEIS | 5.1 km | 151 | – |
| 4 | S N Brighde5.7 km · Newbridge | 5.7 km | 229 |
+9.0%
|
| 5 | Scoil Mhuire Junior5.9 km · Newbridge · DEIS | 5.9 km | 333 |
−21.3%
|
| 6 | Scoil Mhuire6.0 km · Newbridge · DEIS | 6.0 km | 389 |
−5.6%
|
About this school
Inspection reports open on gov.ie, under the name the school had when it was inspected. They describe specific areas of the school's work rather than giving an overall grade. Newer schools may not have one yet.
Contact
- Principal
- Gerry Breslin
- Phone
- 045530530
- [email protected]
- Address
- Melitta Road, Kildare Town, R51 RX38
School
- Ethos
- Multi Denominational
- Patron
- Educate Together
- School type
- Ordinary with Special Classes
- School level
- All Through
- DEIS
- Not DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- No subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Kildare County Council
- Planning area
- Kildare
Each detail is the latest one the Department of Education has recorded for this school. If a detail was left blank in 2025/26, we show it from an earlier year, so some details may be older than the pupil numbers. Known data issues
Data by year
14 school years from 2012/13 to 2025/26. Class figures start in 2020/21.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys | JI | SI | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 417 | 218 | 199 | 50 | 46 | 53 | 53 | 55 | 54 | 53 | 53 |
| 2024/25 | 420 | 219 | 201 | 46 | 52 | 51 | 56 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 |
| 2023/24 | 423 | 227 | 196 | 51 | 51 | 56 | 49 | 51 | 53 | 54 | 51 |
| 2022/23 | 438 | 235 | 203 | 52 | 57 | 46 | 54 | 55 | 55 | 52 | 56 |
| 2021/22 | 429 | 216 | 213 | 55 | 46 | 54 | 56 | 54 | 54 | 56 | 41 |
| 2020/21 | 439 | 226 | 213 | 51 | 56 | 57 | 56 | 55 | 57 | 41 | 50 |
| 2019/20 | 415 | 220 | 195 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2018/19 | 374 | 186 | 188 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2017/18 | 313 | 159 | 154 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2016/17 | 221 | 105 | 116 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2015/16 | 164 | 75 | 89 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2014/15 | 92 | 41 | 51 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2013/14 | 69 | 30 | 39 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2012/13 | 20 | 12 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |