Rochestown Community Special School
Cork City · Roll number 20565N
- Special school
- Community special school
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 66
- +19 on 2024/25
- Opened
- 2023/24
- With 35 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
- Girls and boys
- 12 / 54
- 18% 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 2023
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 Rochestown 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
12teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 5.5 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 12
31 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 14 teaching posts and 1 exceptional post, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 39 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 Rochestown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochestown Community Special SchoolThis school | – | 66 | – | |
| 1 | St Marys Spec SCH1.4 km · Rochestown, Co. Cork · Mild general learning disability | 1.4 km | 85 |
+41.7%
|
| 2 | School of the Divine Child (Scoil an Linbh Íosa)3.9 km · Cork · Physical disability | 3.9 km | 46 |
+53.3%
|
| 3 | Scoil Triest4.4 km · Glanmire, Co. Cork · Multiple disabilities | 4.4 km | 72 |
+1.4%
|
| 4 | Scoil Aislinn4.6 km · Cork · Autism | 4.6 km | 36 |
+2.9%
|
| 5 | Sonas Special Primary Junior School4.8 km · Ardnacloghy, Co. Cork · Autism | 4.8 km | 48 |
+14.3%
|
Special classes within 10 km150 classes in 62 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Scoil Phadraig Naofa0.4 km · 2 autism classes | 0.4 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Douglas Rochestown Educate Together National School2.0 km · 3 autism classes | 2.0 km | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | Gaelscoil Mhachan2.6 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 2.6 km | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Scoil na Croise Naofa2.8 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 2.8 km | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Douglas B N S3.0 km · 5 autism classes | 3.0 km | 5 | 5 |
| 11 | S N Barra Naofa Bhuach3.1 km · 2 autism classes | 3.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | S N Barra Naofa Cailini3.1 km · 2 autism classes | 3.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Scoil Ursula3.2 km · 2 autism classes | 3.2 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
- Grace Hickey
- Phone
- 0212038414
- [email protected]
- Address
- Garryduff Sports Centre, Garryduff, Cork City, T12 ER22
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 City Council
- Planning area
- South Suburbs–CorkCity
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
3 school years from 2023/24 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 66 | 12 | 54 |
| 2024/25 | 47 | 6 | 41 |
| 2023/24 | 35 | 5 | 30 |