School patron in Wicklow

Kildare & Wicklow ETB

Schools in County Wicklow under this patron.

Other patrons in Wicklow Archbishop of Dublin · 42 Archbishop of Dublin & Bishop of Glendalough COI · 12 An Foras Pátrúnachta · 5 Educate Together · 4 Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin · 7 Bishop of Ferns · 5 The Bray School Project · 1 Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory COI · 5

Schools: 1; of 82 in Wicklow
Pupils: 412; 2% of Wicklow's pupils
Average school size: 412.0; Wicklow: 206.6
Average class size: 24.62; Wicklow: 22.36

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

Newer schools

1 school still filling its classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 412 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.

Greystones Community NSGreystones · opened 2015/16 412

Class sizes

Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.

Average class size: 24.62
Mainstream classes: 16
Classes of 30 or more: 0
Schools with a class of 30+: 0

Teachers

Teachers in this 1 mainstream primary school here, 2015/16 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: 16; Up 14 since 2015/16, while pupils rose 1960%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 25; Estimate: 16 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 5 special education and 3 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 2; The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25: 0 / 0; 0 schools gained a class teacher, 0 lost one

Class teachers since 2015/16

One for each mainstream class, every school year

What parents would prefer

102 of the 325 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.

About these figures

The Department's own results: Interactive map Summary report with county figures (PDF)

Prefer a multi-denominational patron: 91%; Parents of children at school · Ireland 44%
Prefer teaching through Irish: 9%; Parents of children at school · Ireland 20%
Prefer single-sex: 0%; Parents of children at school · Ireland 5%

1 school 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.

Change over

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	Roll number
Greystones Community NSGreystones	20473I	412	–	–	16	24.62	27	0