School patron in Kildare
Joint patronage between the Minister for Defence and the Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin
Schools in County Kildare under this patron.
- Schools
- 1
- of 101 in Kildare
- Pupils
- 151
- 1% of Kildare's pupils
- Average school size
- 151.0
- Kildare: 287.1
- Average class size
- 18.12
- Kildare: 23.56
Growing and falling since 2015/16
Each school's change in pupils over 10 years, from 2015/16 to 2025/26. A change of 10% or more either way counts as growing or falling.
Newer schools
1 school still filling its classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 151 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.
- St. Catherine of SiennaKildare · figures start 2021/22 151
Class sizes
Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.
- Average class size
- 18.12
- Mainstream classes
- 8
- Classes of 30 or more
- 0
- Schools with a class of 30+
- 0
Teachers
Teachers in this 1 mainstream primary school here, 2021/22 to 2025/26. Class teachers are counted every year; all teaching posts where they're known.
- Class teachers in 2025/26
- 8
- Up 1 since 2021/22, while pupils rose 14%
- Teaching posts in 2025/26
- about 15
- Estimate: 8 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 5 special education and 1 special class teachers
- Since 2024/25
- 1 / 0
- 1 school gained a class teacher, 0 lost one
Class teachers since 2021/22
One for each mainstream class, every school year
What parents would prefer
43 of the 109 households with children at this 1 school here answered the Department of Education and Youth's Primary School Survey, November–December 2025. These are preferences, not applications.
- Prefer a multi-denominational patron
- 30%
- Parents of children at school · Ireland 44%
- Prefer teaching through Irish
- 7%
- Parents of children at school · Ireland 20%
- Prefer single-sex
- 9%
- Parents of children at school · Ireland 5%
- 0 schools where half or more of parents would prefer a multi-denominational patron
- 0 schools where a quarter or more would prefer teaching through Irish
Source: Department of Education and Youth, Primary School Survey results, published 23 June 2026. Figures here add up the parents at each school with its own results.
Schools
1 school, largest first.
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| Roll number | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Catherine of SiennaKildare | 20558Q | 151 | ––– | – | 8 | 18.12 | 27 | 0 |
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