Monaghan Community Special School
Castleblayney · Roll number 20598F
- Special school
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 18
- Opened
- 2025/26
- With 18 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
- Girls and boys
- 5 / 13
- 28% 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 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 Monaghan 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 3.6 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 5
9 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 5 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 10 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2025/26
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 Monaghan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monaghan Community Special SchoolThis school | – | 18 | – | |
| 1 | Holy Family S S23.6 km · Cootehill, Co. Cavan · Moderate general learning disability | 23.6 km | 182 |
+16.7%
|
| 2 | St Brighids Special SCH23.9 km · Dundalk, Co. Louth · Mild general learning disability | 23.9 km | 104 |
+1.0%
|
| 3 | St Marys Special SCH36.4 km · Drumcar, Co. Louth · Moderate general learning disability | 36.4 km | 111 |
+56.3%
|
| 4 | St Itas Special School50.4 km · Drogheda, Co. Louth · Mild general learning disability | 50.4 km | 207 |
+54.5%
|
| 5 | St Ultans Special SCH50.9 km · Navan, Co. Meath · Mild general learning disability | 50.9 km | 122 |
+4.3%
|
Special classes within 10 km17 classes in 6 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Scoil Mhuire BNS0.1 km · An autism class and a mild general learning disability class | 0.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Castleblayney Convent Infants National School0.7 km · 3 autism classes, an early intervention class and a mild general learning disability class | 0.7 km | 5 | 5 |
| 8 | Castleblayney Convent National School0.7 km · An autism class and a mild general learning disability class | 0.7 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Annalitten N S4.0 km · An autism class | 4.0 km | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Doohamlet N S6.5 km · 2 autism classes | 6.5 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Naomh Oliver Plunkett8.4 km · 4 autism classes and an early intervention class | 8.4 km | 5 | 5 |
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
- Mrs Belinda Walters
- Phone
- 0426006027
- [email protected]
- Address
- Dublin Road, Castleblayney, A75 PV02
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
- Monaghan County Council
- Planning area
- Castleblaney
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.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 18 | 5 | 13 |