Monaghan

Name: Primary schools in County Monaghan, 2025/26
Creator: Department of Education

62 primary schools and 7,958 pupils in 2025/26.

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Pupils in 2025/26: 7,958; −32 on 2024/25
Schools: 62; No change on 2024/25
Average school size: 128.4; −0.5 on 2024/25
Average class size: 22.62; −0.01 on 2024/25

Trends in Monaghan

Counts every school that reported in each year, including schools that have since closed. Dotted lines bridge 1983/84 to 1992/93. 1974/75 is left out because that year's source file is missing five counties.

Pupils

7,958

−32 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

64 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

128.4

100.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

22.62

−0.01 on 2024/25

2006/072025/26

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.

Every school's change

62 schools with figures for both years

18fell by 10% or more

17within 10%

27grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 10Down 10 to 25% · 8Within 10% · 17Up 10 to 25% · 8Up 25% or more · 19

Average class size in these schools went from 24.8 in 2015/16 to 22.6 in 2025/26. 13 of the 18 schools that fell by 10% or more kept or added classes. A fall in pupils can mean smaller classes rather than fewer children wanting places. Smaller classes

Grown most

Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26

1 St Dympnas NSTedavnet, Co. Monaghan 73 → 124 +69.9%
2 Gaelscoil ÉoisCluain Éois, Co. Monaghan 79 → 126 +59.5%
3 Corcaghan N SStranooden, Co. Monaghan 61 → 92 +50.8%
4 Mhuire GranslaClones, Co. Monaghan 53 → 77 +45.3%
5 Monaghan Model SchoolMonaghan, Co. Monaghan 137 → 199 +45.3%

Fallen most

Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26

1 St Louis Infant SchoolMonaghan, Co. Monaghan 293 → 208 −29.0%
2 St. Brigid's National School AughnafarconCastleblayney, Co. Monaghan 51 → 37 −27.5%
3 Scoil BrideCarrickmacross, Co. Monaghan 146 → 106 −27.4%
4 Drumgossatt N SCarrickmacross, Co. Monaghan 94 → 75 −20.2%
5 St. Louis Girls National SchoolMonaghan, Co. Monaghan 251 → 202 −19.5%

Ranked by percentage change. Only schools with 50 or more pupils in 2015/16 are ranked, leaving out any still filling their classes then, because a few pupils make a big percentage in a small or new school. An amalgamation, a new school nearby or smaller classes can also explain a big rise or fall.

Break Monaghan down

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Planning areas

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Monaghan	22	2,984	135.6	22.11	131	+4.5%	+19.8%
Carrickmacross	13	1,986	152.8	23.70	82	+2.5%	+43.1%
Castleblaney	11	1,223	111.2	22.44	52	+7.8%	+32.6%
Clones	8	791	98.9	22.11	35	+2.9%	+24.0%
Cootehill	5	546	109.2	22.52	23	+2.1%	+21.6%
Ballybay	3	428	142.7	23.17	18	+6.2%	+30.9%

Changes count today's schools and any that closed from 2023/24; earlier closures aren't in any planning area, so changes run high, more so since 2005/06. Known data issues · All planning areas in Ireland

Patrons


Bishop of Clogher	53	7,449	140.5	22.95	314
Minister for Education & Skills	1	199	199.0	24.88	8
An Foras Pátrúnachta	1	126	126.0	25.20	5
Presbytery of Monaghan	3	96	32.0	16.00	6
Bishop of Clogher COI	4	88	22.0	11.00	8

Local authorities


Monaghan County Council	62	7,958	128.4	22.62	341

Class sizes

Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to. Figures for 2025/26: 7,715 pupils in mainstream classes.

Average class size: 22.62
Mainstream classes: 341
Largest class: 36
Classes of 30 or more: 35
Schools with a class of 30+: 23

Teachers

Teachers in the 62 mainstream primary schools here, 2006/07 to 2025/26. Class teachers are counted every year; all teaching posts where they're known.

How we count teachers

Class teachers in 2025/26: 341; Up 67 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 23%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 539; Estimate: 341 class teachers, 26 principals and deputies, 129 special education and 43 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 426; The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25: 5 / 8; 5 schools gained a class teacher, 8 lost one

Class teachers since 2006/07

One for each mainstream class, every school year

Special schools and special classes

1 special school in Monaghan, and the special classes in its 62 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools

Pupils in special schools: 18; In 1 school
Special classes in 2025/26: 43; In 18 of 62 schools. 21 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 48; In 20 schools: 5 new classes, 2 schools with their first
Autism classes: 34; 79% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In Monaghan's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

2020/21 21
2021/22 24
2022/23 29
2023/24 33
2024/25 39
2025/26 43
2026/27 48

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special schools in Monaghan
Special school	Pupils	Since 2015/16	Teaching posts	SNAs
Monaghan Community Special SchoolCastleblayney	18	–	5	9

Sources: Department of Education enrolment lists; NCSE special class lists and special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).

What parents would prefer

1,858 of the 4,857 households with children at the 58 schools here answered the Department of Education and Youth's Primary School Survey, November–December 2025. 4 more schools had too few answers for their own results. These are preferences, not applications.

About these figures

The Department's own results: School reports for Co. Monaghan (PDF)Interactive map Summary report with county figures (PDF)

Prefer a multi-denominational patron: 30%; Parents of children at school · Ireland 44%
Prefer teaching through Irish: 19%; Parents of children at school · Ireland 20%
Prefer single-sex: 4%; Parents of children at school · Ireland 5%

By school planning area

The Department publishes the answers of parents of children not yet at school by planning area only, so these are whole areas, including any part in another county.

Compare all 314 areas

Share of parents who would prefer each, by planning area, for children at school and not yet at school
Planning area	Schools here	Households answered	Multi-denominational		Through Irish		Single-sex
Planning area	Schools here	Households answered	At school	Not yet	At school	Not yet	At school	Not yet
Monaghan	22	869 (40%)	28%	33%	21%	27%	3%	3%
Carrickmacross	13	677 (69%)	28%	22%	19%	34%	6%	7%
Castleblaney	11	419 (44%)	32%	28%	22%	28%	4%	8%
Clones	8	312 (44%)	32%	33%	17%	22%	2%	1%
CootehillAlso in Co. Cavan	5	352 (42%)	30%	35%	17%	29%	1%	2%
Ballybay	3	285 (50%)	33%	30%	13%	19%	1%	2%

Grey: fewer than 60 parents of children not yet at school answered in that area, so a handful of answers moves the figure a long way.

Each count opens those schools in Find schools, with each school's figures.

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 in Monaghan

62 schools with 2025/26 figures, largest first.

Every school in Monaghan (CSV)

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	Roll number
Gaelscoil UltainMuineacháin	19936P	373	+11.3%	+90.3%	16	23.31	26	0
Urbleshanny N SScotstown	16923O	296	−2.6%	+9.6%	13	22.31	29	0
Scoil Naomh DeaghaDundalk	19251G	286	+34.9%	+127.0%	10	26.00	33	5
Scoil RoisCarraig Mhachaire Rois	19857T	260	+16.6%	+54.8%	10	26.00	32	3
Bunscoil Louis NaofaCarrickmacross	15329U	258	−10.7%	+16.2%	11	23.45	32	1
Naomh Oliver PlunkettLoughmourne	19469K	255	+15.4%	+72.3%	9	25.22	34	1
St Joseph's National SchoolCarrickmacross	17099Q	234	−18.8%	−2.9%	10	22.80	30	1
St Marys BNSMonaghan	17150N	229	−17.3%	−21.3%	9	22.56	31	1
Scoil ÉannaBallybay	20174V	228	−3.8%	+26.7%	9	25.33	33	3
St Tiarnach's Primary SchoolClones	20120V	217	−9.6%	−0.5%	9	22.22	30	1
St Louis Infant SchoolMonaghan	18494E	208	−29.0%	−25.4%	9	23.11	25	0
Scoil Naoimh EannaCarrickmacross	05501A	203	−4.2%	+40.0%	8	25.38	30	1
Corr A Chrainn National SchoolEmyvale	18028V	202	−3.3%	−6.9%	8	24.50	31	2
Scoil Naomh MhuireClontibret	18539A	202	+42.3%	+48.5%	8	23.00	27	0
St. Louis Girls National SchoolMonaghan	00359V	202	−19.5%	−27.1%	8	24.62	28	0
Monaghan Model SchoolMonaghan	07751K	199	+45.3%	+64.5%	8	24.88	31	1
Castleblayney Convent Infants National SchoolCastleblayney	16319W	197	+15.2%	+28.8%	8	21.12	26	0
Annyalla National SchoolAnnyalla	16842O	195	+12.7%	+18.2%	8	24.38	28	0
Scoil Mhuire BNSCastleblayney	17686I	183	+16.6%	+52.5%	7	24.43	33	1
LattonCastleblayney	19434O	161	−7.5%	+3.2%	6	26.83	30	1
Edenmore N.S.Emyvale	20337A	159	+25.2%	–	7	22.29	35	1
Gaelscoil LorganBaile na Lorgan	20327U	159	+1.3%	–	6	26.50	32	2
Castleblayney Convent National SchoolCastleblayney	16202B	155	+22.0%	+28.1%	6	24.00	33	2
Lisdoonan N SCarrickmacross	15143G	150	+25.0%	+56.2%	6	25.00	31	1
Scoil PhadraigCarrickmacross	19736H	142	+12.7%	+97.2%	6	23.67	29	0
Threemilehouse N SThreemilehouse	19162H	141	+7.6%	+14.6%	6	20.50	24	0
St Patricks NSCastleblayney	17735S	140	+7.7%	+12.0%	6	23.33	25	0
Doohamlet N SCastleblayney	06117E	134	+7.2%	+14.5%	6	20.50	25	0
Gaelscoil ÉoisCluain Éois	20055N	126	+59.5%	+563.2%	5	25.20	36	2
St Dympnas NSTedavnet	19738L	124	+69.9%	+37.8%	5	23.60	30	1
Knockconnon N SEmyvale	15654I	118	+32.6%	+136.0%	5	23.60	30	1
Naomh MichealCarrickmacross	15142E	108	+31.7%	+107.7%	4	24.25	30	1
Scoil BrideCarrickmacross	19780K	106	−27.4%	+16.5%	5	21.20	23	0
S N CholmcilleCarraig Mhachaire Rois	18820O	103	+45.1%	+94.3%	4	25.75	30	1
Killeevan Central N SNewbliss	19364T	101	−1.0%	+23.2%	4	25.25	29	0
Scoil MhuireSmithborough	09186P	99	+1.0%	+39.4%	4	24.75	32	1
Corcaghan N SStranooden	16129R	92	+50.8%	+33.3%	4	23.00	26	0
Scoil Naomh PadraigCastleblayney	18234B	87	+27.9%	+42.6%	4	21.75	27	0
Scoil MhuireGlaslough	18401R	86	−12.2%	−3.4%	4	21.50	27	0
Latnamard N SSmithboro	16769H	85	−19.0%	+19.7%	4	21.25	28	0
Mhuire GranslaClones	18482U	77	+45.3%	−21.4%	4	19.25	22	0
Scoil MhuireRockcorry	10429W	76	−8.4%	−11.6%	4	19.00	23	0
Drumgossatt N SCarrickmacross	14071C	75	−20.2%	+15.4%	4	18.75	23	0
Scoil BhrighdeTyholland	18256L	75	+41.5%	+66.7%	3	25.00	27	0
Deravoy National SchoolEmyvale	00373P	71	+31.5%	+26.8%	4	17.75	21	0
Scoil EndaClones	17126Q	69	+4.5%	+21.1%	3	23.00	25	0
Ballybay Central NSBallybay	19884W	66	+61.0%	+120.0%	3	22.00	29	0
Scoil MhichilCastleshane	16954C	60	+106.9%	+71.4%	3	20.00	24	0
St Josephs N SScotstown	20067U	60	+71.4%	+130.8%	3	20.00	24	0
Annalitten N SCastleblayeny	13632L	37	+42.3%	+5.7%	2	16.00	20	0
St. Brigid's National School AughnafarconCastleblayney	18023L	37	−27.5%	−46.4%	2	18.50	28	0
Corcreagh N SShercock	13811L	34	0.0%	+54.5%	2	17.00	19	0
Rockcorry N SRockcorry	06028F	34	−2.9%	+6.2%	2	17.00	22	0
St Patricks N SKillybrone	19362P	33	−13.2%	−45.9%	2	16.50	19	0
S N Blaithin IosaCarrickmacross	16968N	27	−32.5%	−22.9%	2	13.50	14	0
Clontibret N SClontibret	10751E	23	−42.5%	−17.9%	2	11.50	14	0
Scoil PhadraigTyholland	19036C	23	−36.1%	−23.3%	2	11.50	14	0
Drumcorrin N SDrum	19703P	20	−9.1%	−25.9%	2	10.00	11	0
S N ComhghallClones	17776J	17	−34.6%	−22.7%	2	8.50	9	0
The Billis National SchoolGlaslough	20246U	16	−67.3%	–	2	8.00	10	0
Drumacruttin N SDunraymond	10282S	15	−57.1%	−50.0%	2	7.50	12	0
Castleblayney Cent N SCastleblayney	19737J	10	−71.4%	−77.8%	1	10.00	10	0