Danu Community Special School
Dublin 15 · Roll number 20548N
- Special school
- Community special school
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 43
- +7 on 2024/25
- Opened
- 2019/20
- With 0 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
- Girls and boys
- 6 / 37
- 14% 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 2019
Total enrolment each school year
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 Danu Community Special School, 2022/23 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
10teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 4.3 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 10
35 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 12 teaching posts and 2 exceptional posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 43 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2022/23
Teaching posts each school year. Point at a bar for its SNAs.
Source: NCSE special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby
The special schools closest to Danu Community 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danu Community Special SchoolThis school | – | 43 | – | |
| 1 | Youth Encounter Project4.5 km · Dublin 11 | 4.5 km | 14 |
−36.4%
|
| 2 | St Vincents Home NS5.0 km · Dublin 7 · Moderate general learning disability | 5.0 km | 68 |
−2.9%
|
| 3 | Phoenix Park Specialist School5.1 km · Phoenix Park, Co. Dublin · Emotional and behavioural difficulties | 5.1 km | 17 |
−5.6%
|
| 4 | Ballydowd High Support Special School5.3 km · Palmerstown, Co. Dublin | 5.3 km | 7 |
−22.2%
|
| 5 | St Michaels Spec School5.3 km · Dublin 20 · Mild general learning disability | 5.3 km | 163 |
+5.2%
|
Special classes within 10 km252 classes in 136 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | St Patricks Senior School0.4 km · 2 autism classes and a mild general learning disability classA new class in 2026/27 | 0.4 km | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | St. Patrick's Junior NS0.4 km · 2 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 0.4 km | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Ladyswell N S1.0 km · 3 autism classes | 1.0 km | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Scoil Mhuire Sin1.4 km · An autism class and a moderate general learning disability class | 1.4 km | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Scoil Nais Mhuire Sois1.5 km · 2 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 1.5 km | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Gaelscoil an Chuilinn1.6 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 1.6 km | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Powerstown Educate Together National School1.6 km · 5 autism classes and a speech and language classA new class in 2026/27 | 1.6 km | 6 | 7 |
| 13 | SN Oilibheir2.0 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
- Patricia Doolan
- Phone
- 018270755
- [email protected]
- Address
- Blanchardstown Road North, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, D15 P380
School
- Ethos
- Multi Denominational
- NCSE designation
- Community special school
- Patron
- Dublin & Dún Laoghaire ETB
- 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
- Fingal County Council
- Planning area
- Mulhuddart–Tyrrelstown–D15
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
7 school years from 2019/20 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 43 | 6 | 37 |
| 2024/25 | 36 | 3 | 33 |
| 2023/24 | 36 | 4 | 32 |
| 2022/23 | 36 | 4 | 32 |
| 2021/22 | 29 | 2 | 27 |
| 2020/21 | 23 | 2 | 21 |
| 2019/20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |