Broadmeadow Community National School

Swords · Roll number 20529J

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  • Multi Denominational ethos
  • Not DEIS
  • Ordinary with Special Classes
Pupils in 2025/26
80
+9 on 2024/25
Opened
2020/21
With 13 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
Girls and boys
31 / 49
39% girls
Teachers
about 6
4 class teachers and 1 special class teacher. Who they are

Pupils since 2020

Total enrolment each school year

Pupils by class

Published for each class from 2020/21.

This year, 2025/26

80 pupils across 8 classes

  • Junior Infants17
  • Senior Infants13
  • 1st Class10
  • 2nd Class22
  • 3rd Class13
  • 4th Class5
  • 5th Class0
  • 6th Class0

Every class, every year

Darker cells have more pupils. A group of pupils moves down one class and right one year.

Pupils in each class for each school year
2020/212021/222022/232023/242024/252025/26 Average
Junior Infants 13 18 22 11 14 17 15.8
Senior Infants – 12 15 17 11 13 13.6
1st Class – – 13 12 18 10 13.2
2nd Class – – – 14 14 22 16.7
3rd Class – – – – 11 13 12.0
4th Class – – – – – 5 5.0
5th Class – – – – – 0 0.0
6th Class – – – – – 0 0.0

JI and SI are Junior and Senior Infants.

Started Junior Infants in 2020/21

13 in Junior Infants (2020/21), 5 in 4th Class (2025/26): 8 pupils fewer.

  1. 13Junior Infants2020/21
  2. 12Senior Infants2021/22
  3. 131st Class2022/23
  4. 142nd Class2023/24
  5. 113rd Class2024/25
  6. 54th Class2025/26

Biggest one-year changes in a class

  • +82nd Class in 2025/26 (14 to 22)
  • −11Junior Infants in 2023/24 (22 to 11)

Class sizes

Mainstream class groups, 2020/21 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, 2020/21 to 2025/26

Teachers

Who teaches at Broadmeadow Community National School, 2020/21 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

6.1teaching posts

Our estimate: about 6 teachers.

  • Class teachersOne for each of the 4 mainstream classes 4
  • PrincipalAlso teaches one of the classes, so is counted with the class teachers in a class
  • Special education teachers27.5 hours of support teaching a week 1.1
  • Special class teachersFor an autism class 1

5.66 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils. 6 pupils are in special classes, which the class sizes leave out.

2026/27 allocations

The NCSE has allocated 1.2 special education teachers, 1 special class teacher and 5.83 SNAs for next year.

Teachers since 2020/21

Teachers each school year, by role

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 Broadmeadow Community National School, measured in a straight line. Pupil numbers are for 2025/26.

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Schools nearest to Broadmeadow Community National School
Number on map School Distance Pupils Since 2015/16
Broadmeadow Community National SchoolThis school – 80 –
1 Swords Educate Together NS0.6 km · Swords · Multi-denominational 0.6 km 394
−10.7%
2 Gaelscoil Bhrian Bóroimhe0.7 km · Sord · Gaelscoil · Inter-denominational 0.7 km 441
−7.0%
3 St Cronans Junior National School1.2 km · Swords 1.2 km 498
−21.6%
4 Brackenstown Senior N S1.3 km · Swords 1.3 km 530
−6.2%
5 Thornleigh Educate Together National School1.3 km · Swords · Multi-denominational · DEIS 1.3 km 313
−3.7%
6 Holy Family Junior N S1.7 km · Swords 1.7 km 565
−18.6%
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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
Jennifer Robinson
Address
Rathbeale Road, Swords, Co. Dublin, K67 V9H2

School

Ethos
Multi Denominational
Patron
Dublin & Dún Laoghaire ETB
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
Fingal County Council
Planning area
Swords

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

6 school years from 2020/21 to 2025/26. Class figures start in 2020/21.

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Pupils by school year, newest first
Year Total Girls Boys JI SI 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
2025/26 80 31 49 1713102213500
2024/25 71 31 40 1411181411–––
2023/24 56 23 33 11171214––––
2022/23 50 21 29 221513–––––
2021/22 30 17 13 1812––––––
2020/21 13 5 8 13–––––––