Lucan Community Special School

Lucan · Roll number 20595W

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Pupils in 2025/26
15
Opened
2025/26
With 15 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
Girls and boys
4 / 11
27% girls
Teaching posts in 2025/26
5
10 special needs assistants
A special school

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 2025

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 Lucan Community Special School, 2025/26 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

5teaching posts

The NCSE's allocation: about 3 pupils per teaching post.

  • Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 5

10 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.

2026/27 allocations

The NCSE has allocated 9 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 24 SNAs for next year.

Teachers since 2025/26

Teaching posts each school year. Point at a bar for its SNAs.

Known data issues

Source: NCSE special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).

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
Clár Ní Dhuibheannaigh
Address
Kishogue Cross, Lucan, K78 FA37

School

Ethos
Multi Denominational
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
South Dublin County Council
Planning area
Lucan

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

1 school year from 2025/26 to 2025/26.

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Pupils by school year, newest first
Year Total Girls Boys
2025/26 15 4 11