St. John's National School
Kilkenny · Roll number 20600M
- Catholic ethos
- DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 441
- Figures start
- 2025/26
- With 441 pupils. A new roll number like this often follows an amalgamation.
- Girls and boys
- 233 / 208
- 53% girls
Pupils since 2025
Total enrolment each school year
Pupils by class
Published for each class from 2025/26.
This year, 2025/26
441 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 | 51 | 51.0 |
| Senior Infants | 48 | 48.0 |
| 1st Class | 63 | 63.0 |
| 2nd Class | 57 | 57.0 |
| 3rd Class | 63 | 63.0 |
| 4th Class | 47 | 47.0 |
| 5th Class | 57 | 57.0 |
| 6th Class | 55 | 55.0 |
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 St. John's 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
32.9teaching posts
Our estimate: about 33 teachers.
- Class teachersOne for each of the 20 mainstream classes 20
- PrincipalDoesn't teach a class: schools with two or more special classes have a full-time principal 1
- Special education teachers222.5 hours of support teaching a week 8.9
- Special class teachersFor 3 autism classes 3
16.16 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils. 18 pupils are in special classes, which the class sizes leave out.
The NCSE has allocated 9 special education teachers, 3 special class teachers and 16.16 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 St. John's National School, measured in a straight line. Pupil numbers are for 2025/26.
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's National SchoolThis school | – | 441 | – | |
| 1 | Kilkenny Mixed N S1.1 km · Kilkenny · Church of Ireland | 1.1 km | 198 |
+20.0%
|
| 2 | Scoil Mhuire1.2 km · Kilkenny | 1.2 km | 400 |
−7.0%
|
| 3 | St Canices Central N S1.3 km · Kilkenny | 1.3 km | 648 |
−1.2%
|
| 4 | Scoil Iognaid de Ris1.4 km · Kilkenny | 1.4 km | 278 |
+33.7%
|
| 5 | Scoil Naomh Eoin Dea1.4 km · Kilkenny · Girls | 1.4 km | 330 |
−2.1%
|
| 6 | S N Padraig Naofa1.6 km · Kilkenny · Boys | 1.6 km | 331 |
−4.3%
|
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
- Brian Roche
- Phone
- 0567763528
- [email protected]
- Address
- Ballybough Street, Kilkenny, R95 NH66
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- DEIS
- DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- No subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Kilkenny County Council
- Planning area
- Kilkenny
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 | 441 | 233 | 208 | 51 | 48 | 63 | 57 | 63 | 47 | 57 | 55 |