East Cork Community Special School
Carrigtwohill · Roll number 20574O
- Special school
- Community special school
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 32
- +12 on 2024/25
- Opened
- 2023/24
- With 0 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
- Girls and boys
- 11 / 21
- 34% 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 East Cork Community Special School, 2023/24 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
8teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 4 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 8
19 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 10 teaching posts, a principal and 2 deputy principals who don't teach a class, and 30 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2023/24
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 East Cork 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Cork Community Special SchoolThis school | – | 32 | – | |
| 1 | Scoil Triest9.3 km · Glanmire, Co. Cork · Multiple disabilities | 9.3 km | 72 |
+1.4%
|
| 2 | St Marys Spec SCH10.0 km · Rochestown, Co. Cork · Mild general learning disability | 10.0 km | 85 |
+41.7%
|
| 3 | Rochestown Community Special School10.4 km · Cork City · Community special school | 10.4 km | 66 | – |
| 4 | Cara Junior School11.1 km · Cork · Autism | 11.1 km | 72 |
+20.0%
|
| 5 | St Killians Spec SCH11.5 km · Cork · Specific learning disability | 11.5 km | 106 |
+53.6%
|
Special classes within 10 km66 classes in 21 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Scoil Mhuire Naofa0.2 km · 5 autism classes | 0.2 km | 5 | 5 |
| 7 | Scoil Chlochair Mhuire National School0.5 km · 4 autism classes and an early intervention class | 0.5 km | 5 | 5 |
| 8 | Carrigtwohill Community National School0.7 km · 2 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 0.7 km | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Gaelscoil Mhainistir na Corann4.9 km · 2 autism classes | 4.9 km | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Glounthaune Mixed N.S.5.3 km · An autism class and a speech and language classA new class in 2026/27 | 5.3 km | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Walterstown N S5.5 km · 3 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 5.5 km | 3 | 4 |
| 12 | Midleton Educate Together School5.9 km · 5 autism classes | 5.9 km | 5 | 5 |
| 13 | Leamlara Mixed N S6.3 km · 2 autism classes | 6.3 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
- Mary Lyons
- Phone
- 0861913780
- [email protected]
- Address
- East Cork Community Special School, C/O Carrigtwohill CNS, Station Road, Carrigtwohill, T45 YY66
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
- Midleton–Carrigtwohill
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 | 32 | 11 | 21 |
| 2024/25 | 20 | 6 | 14 |
| 2023/24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |