Cherrywood Educate Together National School
Dublin 18 · Roll number 20535E
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Ordinary with Special Classes
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 220
- +54 on 2024/25
- Opened
- 2020/21
- With 5 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
- Girls and boys
- 109 / 111
- 50% girls
Pupils since 2020
Total enrolment each school year
Pupils by class
Published for each class from 2020/21.
This year, 2025/26
220 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 | 5 | 18 | 25 | 27 | 25 | 48 | 24.7 |
| Senior Infants | – | 8 | 24 | 25 | 32 | 24 | 22.6 |
| 1st Class | – | – | 22 | 23 | 35 | 35 | 28.8 |
| 2nd Class | – | – | – | 25 | 23 | 42 | 30.0 |
| 3rd Class | – | – | – | – | 40 | 28 | 34.0 |
| 4th Class | – | – | – | – | – | 43 | 43.0 |
| 5th Class | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0.0 |
| 6th Class | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0.0 |
JI and SI are Junior and Senior Infants.
Started Junior Infants in 2024/25
25 in Junior Infants (2024/25), 24 in Senior Infants (2025/26): 1 pupil fewer.
- 25Junior Infants2024/25
- 24Senior Infants2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2023/24
27 in Junior Infants (2023/24), 35 in 1st Class (2025/26): 8 pupils more.
- 27Junior Infants2023/24
- 32Senior Infants2024/25
- 351st Class2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2022/23
25 in Junior Infants (2022/23), 42 in 2nd Class (2025/26): 17 pupils more.
- 25Junior Infants2022/23
- 25Senior Infants2023/24
- 351st Class2024/25
- 422nd Class2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2021/22
18 in Junior Infants (2021/22), 28 in 3rd Class (2025/26): 10 pupils more.
- 18Junior Infants2021/22
- 24Senior Infants2022/23
- 231st Class2023/24
- 232nd Class2024/25
- 283rd Class2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2020/21
5 in Junior Infants (2020/21), 43 in 4th Class (2025/26): 38 pupils more.
- 5Junior Infants2020/21
- 8Senior Infants2021/22
- 221st Class2022/23
- 252nd Class2023/24
- 403rd Class2024/25
- 434th Class2025/26
Biggest one-year changes in a class
- +23Junior Infants in 2025/26 (25 to 48)
- −123rd Class in 2025/26 (40 to 28)
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 Cherrywood Educate Together 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
15.5teaching posts
Our estimate: about 16 teachers.
- Class teachersOne for each of the 9 mainstream classes 9
- PrincipalDoesn't teach a class: schools with two or more special classes have a full-time principal 1
- Special education teachers87.5 hours of support teaching a week 3.5
- Special class teachersFor 2 autism classes 2
10.33 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils. 12 pupils are in special classes, which the class sizes leave out.
The NCSE has allocated 5.6 special education teachers, 2 special class teachers and 10.33 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. 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 Cherrywood Educate Together National School, measured in a straight line. Pupil numbers are for 2025/26.
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherrywood Educate Together National SchoolThis school | – | 220 | – | |
| 1 | Scoil Cholmcille Junior NS1.6 km · Ballybrack · DEIS | 1.6 km | 124 |
−9.5%
|
| 2 | Scoil Colmcille Senior1.7 km · Ballybrack · DEIS | 1.7 km | 147 |
−26.5%
|
| 3 | St Columbanus National School1.8 km · Dun Laoghaire · DEIS | 1.8 km | 113 |
+6.6%
|
| 4 | St Brigids Girls N S1.9 km · Dublin 18 · Girls | 1.9 km | 499 |
−8.4%
|
| 5 | Gaelscoil Phadraig2.0 km · Baile Breac · Gaelscoil · DEIS | 2.0 km | 118 |
−27.6%
|
| 6 | Rathmichael N S2.0 km · Dublin 18 · Church of Ireland | 2.0 km | 205 |
−3.3%
|
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
- Joe Lennon
- Phone
- 015240131
- [email protected]
- Address
- Tully Park, Cherrywood, Dublin 18, D18 Y48H
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
- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
- Planning area
- Sallynoggin–Killiney–DLR
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.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys | JI | SI | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 220 | 109 | 111 | 48 | 24 | 35 | 42 | 28 | 43 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024/25 | 166 | 81 | 85 | 25 | 32 | 35 | 23 | 40 | – | – | – |
| 2023/24 | 112 | 56 | 56 | 27 | 25 | 23 | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| 2022/23 | 80 | 36 | 44 | 25 | 24 | 22 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2021/22 | 26 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2020/21 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |