Our Lady of Hope School
Dublin 12 · Roll number 20555K
- Special school
- Community special school
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 45
- No change on 2024/25
- Opened
- 2021/22
- With 0 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
- Girls and boys
- 9 / 36
- 20% 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 2021
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 Our Lady of Hope 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
9teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 5 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 9
26 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 9 teaching posts and 1 exceptional post, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 27 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 Our Lady of Hope 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of Hope SchoolThis school | – | 45 | – | |
| 1 | Scoil Eoin0.1 km · Dublin 12 · Mild general learning disability | 0.1 km | 142 |
+18.3%
|
| 2 | Solas Hospital School1.0 km · Dublin 12 | 1.0 km | 98 |
+50.8%
|
| 3 | Libermann Spiritan School1.9 km · Dublin 6 · Community special school | 1.9 km | 51 | – |
| 4 | St John of God SP SCH2.6 km · Dublin 8 · Moderate general learning disability | 2.6 km | 86 |
0.0%
|
| 5 | St Peters Special SCH2.7 km · Dublin 6 · Emotional and behavioural difficulties | 2.7 km | 70 |
+18.6%
|
Special classes within 10 km347 classes in 194 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Scoil Úna Naofa0.1 km · 2 autism classes | 0.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Marist National School1.0 km · An autism class | 1.0 km | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Muire Og 2 Loreto Con1.2 km · An early intervention class and an autism class | 1.2 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Scoil Mhuire Ogh 11.2 km · An autism class | 1.2 km | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | St Damiens NS1.2 km · An autism class | 1.2 km | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Lady of Good Counsel Boys Senior NS1.3 km · 2 autism classes | 1.3 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Our Lady of Good Counsel Girls Senior School1.3 km · 4 autism classes | 1.3 km | 4 | 4 |
| 13 | Our Lady of Good Counsel School1.3 km · An early intervention class and an autism class | 1.3 km | 2 | 2 |
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
- Aran O'Dowd
- Phone
- 014562279
- [email protected]
- Address
- Armagh Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12, D12 V6RK
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Community special school
- Patron
- Archbishop of Dublin
- 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
- Dublin City Council
- Planning area
- Dolphin's Barn–D12
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
5 school years from 2021/22 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 45 | 9 | 36 |
| 2024/25 | 45 | 9 | 36 |
| 2023/24 | 45 | 9 | 36 |
| 2022/23 | 42 | 8 | 34 |
| 2021/22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |