Holy Family National School
Carlow · Roll number 20592Q
- Catholic ethos
- DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 592
- Figures start
- 2025/26
- With 592 pupils. A new roll number like this often follows an amalgamation.
- Girls and boys
- 299 / 293
- 51% girls
Pupils since 2025
Total enrolment each school year
Pupils by class
Published for each class from 2025/26.
This year, 2025/26
592 pupils across 8 classes
Every class, every year
Darker cells have more pupils. A group of pupils moves down one class and right one year.
| 2025/26 | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Junior Infants | 64 | 64.0 |
| Senior Infants | 66 | 66.0 |
| 1st Class | 81 | 81.0 |
| 2nd Class | 70 | 70.0 |
| 3rd Class | 80 | 80.0 |
| 4th Class | 65 | 65.0 |
| 5th Class | 85 | 85.0 |
| 6th Class | 81 | 81.0 |
JI and SI are Junior and Senior Infants.
Class sizes
Mainstream class groups, 2025/26 to 2025/26.
Why these won't match pupils by class
Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to. So these figures won't match the pupils-by-class figures exactly.
In 2025/26. Choose a figure to chart it.
Class sizes over time
Average class size, 2025/26 to 2025/26
Teachers
Who teaches at Holy Family National School, 2025/26 to 2025/26.
How we count teachers
Class teachers come from the Department of Education's class sizes: one for each mainstream class. Special education and special class teachers are the posts the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates. We add a principal who doesn't teach a class where the Department's rules give the school one. These are posts, not people: part of a post can be a teacher shared with another school. Up to 2015/16 the Department counted every teacher itself. Known data issues
In 2025/26
53teaching posts
Our estimate: about 53 teachers.
- Class teachersOne for each of the 33 mainstream classes 33
- PrincipalDoesn't teach a class: schools with two or more special classes have a full-time principal 1
- Deputy principalDoesn't teach a class either, as larger schools and those with five or more special classes have one 1
- Special education teachers400 hours of support teaching a week 16
- Special class teachersFor 2 autism classes 2
17.49 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils. 12 pupils are in special classes, which the class sizes leave out.
The NCSE has allocated 15.8 special education teachers, 3 special class teachers and 19.49 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2025/26
Teachers each school year, by role
From 2019/20: our estimate, from class sizes and the NCSE's allocations. Known data issues
Sources: Department of Education class sizes and teacher counts; NCSE school allocations and special classes (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby schools
The 6 primary schools closest to Holy Family National School, measured in a straight line. Pupil numbers are for 2025/26.
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Family National SchoolThis school | – | 592 | – | |
| 1 | S N Muire gan Smal0.7 km · Carlow · Girls · DEIS | 0.7 km | 345 |
−21.1%
|
| 2 | Gaelscoil Eoghain Uí Thuairisc0.8 km · Ceatharlach · Gaelscoil | 0.8 km | 444 |
−7.3%
|
| 3 | Scoil Nais Iosef Naofa0.8 km · St. Joseph's Road · DEIS | 0.8 km | 111 |
−35.5%
|
| 4 | Bishop Foley Memorial School Boys SNR SCH0.9 km · Station Road · Boys · DEIS | 0.9 km | 165 |
−37.3%
|
| 5 | S N Ceatharlach1.7 km · Carlow · Church of Ireland | 1.7 km | 137 |
+3.8%
|
| 6 | S N Naomh Fhiach2.2 km · Graiguecullen · DEIS | 2.2 km | 570 |
+7.8%
|
About this school
Inspection reports open on gov.ie, under the name the school had when it was inspected. They describe specific areas of the school's work rather than giving an overall grade. Newer schools may not have one yet.
Contact
- Principal
- Mairead Mullally
- Phone
- 0599142772
- [email protected]
- Address
- Askea, Carlow, R93 VX27
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- DEIS
- DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- No subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Carlow County Council
- Planning area
- Carlow
Each detail is the latest one the Department of Education has recorded for this school. If a detail was left blank in 2025/26, we show it from an earlier year, so some details may be older than the pupil numbers. Known data issues
Data by year
1 school year from 2025/26 to 2025/26. Class figures start in 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys | JI | SI | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 592 | 299 | 293 | 64 | 66 | 81 | 70 | 80 | 65 | 85 | 81 |