Carrigaline Community Special School
Carrigaline · Roll number 20557O
- Special school
- Community special school
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 47
- +2 on 2024/25
- Opened
- 2021/22
- With 31 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
- Girls and boys
- 12 / 35
- 26% 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 Carrigaline 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
9teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 5.2 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 9
23 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 8 teaching posts and 1 exceptional post, a principal and 2 deputy principals who don't teach a class, and 26 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 Carrigaline 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrigaline Community Special SchoolThis school | – | 47 | – | |
| 1 | Sonas Special Primary Junior School1.1 km · Ardnacloghy, Co. Cork · Autism | 1.1 km | 48 |
+14.3%
|
| 2 | St Marys Spec SCH4.5 km · Rochestown, Co. Cork · Mild general learning disability | 4.5 km | 85 |
+41.7%
|
| 3 | Rochestown Community Special School5.5 km · Cork City · Community special school | 5.5 km | 66 | – |
| 4 | School of the Divine Child (Scoil an Linbh Íosa)9.0 km · Cork · Physical disability | 9.0 km | 46 |
+53.3%
|
| 5 | Scoil Aislinn9.2 km · Cork · Autism | 9.2 km | 36 |
+2.9%
|
Special classes within 10 km84 classes in 37 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | St Mary's Church of Ireland N.S0.2 km · 2 autism classes | 0.2 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Owenabue ETNS0.6 km · 2 autism classes | 0.6 km | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | Holy Well National School (Scoil Tobair Naofa)0.8 km · 3 autism classes | 0.8 km | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Gaelscoil Charraig Ui Leighin1.1 km · An autism class | 1.1 km | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Carrigaline Educate Together NS1.2 km · 3 autism classes | 1.2 km | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | Shanbally N S2.6 km · A speech and language class | 2.6 km | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Ringaskiddy Lower Harbour N S4.5 km · An autism class | 4.5 km | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Monkstown N S4.8 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 4.8 km | 0 | 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
- Colm Manley
- Phone
- 0212038488
- [email protected]
- Address
- Bridge Mount, Carrigaline, Co. Cork, P43 Y160
School
- Ethos
- Multi Denominational
- NCSE designation
- Community special school
- Patron
- Cork 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
- Cork County Council
- Planning area
- Carrigaline
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 | 47 | 12 | 35 |
| 2024/25 | 45 | 12 | 33 |
| 2023/24 | 48 | 11 | 37 |
| 2022/23 | 48 | 12 | 36 |
| 2021/22 | 31 | 4 | 27 |