School planning area
Glasheen–CorkCity
18 primary schools and 4,646 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 4,646
- −119 on 2024/25
- Since 2015/16
- +1.7%
- 4,567 pupils in 2015/16
- Schools
- 18
- No change on 2024/25
- Average class size
- 21.31
- Average school size: 258.1
Trends in Glasheen–CorkCity
Each year counts the schools in this planning area today, plus any that closed from 2023/24. Dotted lines bridge 1983/84 to 1992/93. 1974/75 is left out because that year's source file is missing five counties.
The Department's files only record planning areas from 2023/24, so schools that closed or amalgamated before then aren't counted in any area. The further back you go, the more pupils are missing, and an amalgamation can look like a sudden rise. Across County Cork, schools with no planning area had 3.2% of pupils in 2015/16, 8.7% in 2005/06 and 29.9% in 1975/76. Known data issues
Pupils
4,646
−119 on 2024/25
Schools
18
12 in 1975/76
Average pupils per school
258.1
534.1 in 1975/76
Average class size
21.31
−0.26 on 2024/25
Pupils in these schools
Junior infants, girls and boys, and Irish-medium schools over time, for the same schools as the trends above.
Junior infants
Pupils starting school each year. Class-by-class figures start in 2020/21. 560 in 2025/26, +21 on 2024/25.
Girls and boys
From 1977/78: earlier files don't split every school's pupils into girls and boys.
Irish-medium schools
Pupils in schools that teach all subjects through Irish (2 schools today). 447 pupils in 2025/26, 9.6% of the area's pupils, against 10.7% in 2015/16. Each school counts under its current classification for every year.
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.
17 schools with figures for both years
Schools still filling their classes in 2015/16, and schools opened since, are listed separately.
Average class size in these schools went from 24.3 in 2015/16 to 21.3 in 2025/26. 2 of the 4 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 Muire gan Smal CCork, Co. Cork 231 → 297 +28.6%
- 2 Scoil Naomh MhuireCork, Co. Cork 267 → 312 +16.9%
- 3 Scoil Mhuire gan Smal BCork, Co. Cork 354 → 403 +13.8%
- 4 S N Barra NaofaCork, Co. Cork 69 → 75 +8.7%
- 5 S N Iosef NaofaCork, Co. Cork 212 → 215 +1.4%
Fallen most
Pupils in 2015/16 and 2025/26
- 1 Gaelscoil an Teaghlaigh NaofaCork, Co. Cork 224 → 193 −13.8%
- 2 S N B Togher CorkCork, Co. Cork 290 → 252 −13.1%
- 3 Realt na MaidineCork, Co. Cork 122 → 107 −12.3%
- 4 Greenmount Monastery NSGreenmount, Co. Cork 267 → 240 −10.1%
- 5 S N Athair Maitiu CTogher, Co. Cork 278 → 252 −9.4%
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.
Newer schools
1 school still filling its classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 162 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.
- South Lee Educate Together National SchoolCork City · opened 2019/20 162
Class sizes
Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.
- Average class size
- 21.31
- Mainstream classes
- 210
- Classes of 30 or more
- 9
- Schools with a class of 30+
- 6
Teachers
Teachers in the 18 mainstream primary schools here, 2006/07 to 2025/26. Class teachers are counted every year; all teaching posts where they're known.
- Class teachers in 2025/26
- 210
- Up 62 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 29%
- Teaching posts in 2025/26
- about 349
- Estimate: 210 class teachers, 18 principals and deputies, 93 special education and 28 special class teachers
- Teachers in 2015/16
- 285
- The Department's last count of every teacher
- Since 2024/25
- 2 / 6
- 2 schools gained a class teacher, 6 lost one
Class teachers since 2006/07
One for each mainstream class, every school year
Special schools and special classes
3 special schools in the Glasheen–CorkCity planning area, and the special classes in its 18 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.
- Pupils in special schools
- 81
- In 3 schools, up from 68 in 2015/16
- Special classes in 2025/26
- 28
- In 12 of 18 schools. 19 in 2020/21
- Allocated for 2026/27
- 30
- In 12 schools: 2 new classes
- Autism classes
- 25
- 89% of special classes
Special classes since 2020/21
In the Glasheen–CorkCity planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists
- 2020/21 19
- 2021/22 20
- 2022/23 22
- 2023/24 23
- 2024/25 25
- 2025/26 28
- 2026/27 30
2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.
| Special school | Pupils | Since 2015/16 | Teaching posts | SNAs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Gabriels Special SchoolCork. · Severe or profound general learning disability | 54 |
+42.1%
|
9 | 35 |
| Cork University Hos SchoolCork | 17 |
−5.6%
|
– | – |
| St Kevins SchoolCork | 10 |
−16.7%
|
– | – |
Sources: Department of Education enrolment lists; NCSE special class lists and special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).
What parents would prefer
1,217 households answered the Department of Education and Youth's Primary School Survey for the Glasheen–CorkCity planning area: 777 with children at its schools and 440 with children not yet at school. Each said whether they would prefer co-educational or single-sex schooling, a denominational or multi-denominational patron, and teaching through Irish or English.
- Households that answered
- 1,217
- 34% of households asked
- Prefer a multi-denominational patron
- 47% / 57%
- Children at school / not yet at school
- Prefer teaching through Irish
- 23% / 34%
- Children at school / not yet at school
- Prefer single-sex
- 21% / 16%
- Children at school / not yet at school
Preferences beside what the schools offer now
Share of pupils in schools of each kind in the area, and share of parents who would prefer it
- Pupils in such schools now
- Parents: children at school
- Parents: children not yet at school
Multi-denominational patron
355 pupils (8%) in 2 schools
Teaching through Irish
447 pupils (10%) in 2 schools
Single-sex
2,764 pupils (60%) in 10 schools
Bars run from 0 to 100%.
Each school's parents
Parents of children at each school. Bold marks the school's set-up now.
| Bunscoil Chriost RiCork | 453 | 84 of 309 | ±8.8 | 46% | 19% | 6% | 42 answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil Naomh CaitrionaCork | 414 | 107 of 340 | ±7.9 | 47% | 16% | 38% | 32 answered |
| Scoil Mhuire gan Smal BCork | 403 | 112 of 333 | ±7.7 | 47% | 8% | 25% | – |
| Scoil an Spioraid Naomh (Boys)Cork | 398 | 109 of 341 | ±7.8 | 54% | 12% | 27% | 45 answered |
| Scoil Naomh MhuireCork | 312 | 63 of 253 | ±10.1 | 44% | 2% | 6% | 36 answered |
| Muire gan Smal CCork | 297 | 67 of 247 | ±9.9 | 45% | 9% | 34% | – |
| S N an Spioraid Naomh CCork | 258 | 69 of 220 | ±9.7 | 51% | 9% | 32% | – |
| Gaelscoil Ui RiadaCorcaigh | 254 | 70 of 157 | ±9.6 | 34% | 96% | 7% | 67 answered |
| S N Athair Maitiu CTogher | 252 | 66 of 218 | ±9.9 | 42% | 15% | 42% | – |
| S N B Togher CorkCork | 252 | 55 of 215 | ±10.8 | 44% | 11% | 40% | – |
| Greenmount Monastery NSGreenmount | 240 | 58 of 192 | ±10.6 | 41% | 9% | 9% | – |
| S N Iosef NaofaCork | 215 | 67 of 173 | ±9.9 | 37% | 9% | 45% | 30 answered |
| Cork Educate Together National SchoolCork | 193 | 80 of 155 | ±9 | 96% | 14% | 3% | 40 answered |
| Gaelscoil an Teaghlaigh NaofaCork | 193 | 59 of 146 | ±10.5 | 39% | 92% | 2% | 34 answered |
| Scoil Maria AssumptaCork | 168 | 46 of 141 | ±11.8 | 22% | 13% | 37% | – |
| South Lee Educate Together National SchoolCork City | 162 | 60 of 125 | ±10.4 | 95% | 18% | 2% | 36 answered |
| Realt na MaidineCork | 107 | 43 of 93 | ±12.2 | 42% | 12% | 47% | – |
| S N Barra NaofaCork | 75 | 23 of 51 | ±16.2 | 78% | 13% | 4% | – |
Grey margins of error are 15 points or more: so few parents answered that the figures could be well off. “Too few to publish”: the Department held back the school's results, but its parents' answers still count in the area figures. Not yet at school: how many parents of children not yet at school chose the school, shown where 30 or more did. Special schools in the area are counted in the area figures above.
Source: Department of Education and Youth, Primary School Survey results, published 23 June 2026. The area figures count each household once, including parents at schools too small for their own results, so they aren't the school figures added up. About these figures
Schools
18 schools, largest first. A dash in the change column means the school had no pupils recorded in that year, usually because it opened later or took a new roll number after an amalgamation.
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| Roll number | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunscoil Chriost RiCork | 20388R | 453 |
−2.2%
−7.9%
– |
– | 20 | 21.70 | 30 | 1 |
| Scoil Naomh CaitrionaCork | 18253F | 414 |
−2.1%
−5.7%
+42.8%
|
+42.8%
|
17 | 24.35 | 28 | 0 |
| Scoil Mhuire gan Smal BCork | 17993R | 403 |
−5.6%
+13.8%
+65.2%
|
+65.2%
|
17 | 23.35 | 29 | 0 |
| Scoil an Spioraid Naomh (Boys)Cork | 20077A | 398 |
−3.2%
−0.3%
+0.5%
|
+0.5%
|
16 | 24.88 | 28 | 0 |
| Scoil Naomh MhuireCork | 14000C | 312 |
+7.2%
+16.9%
+153.7%
|
+153.7%
|
15 | 19.20 | 32 | 1 |
| Muire gan Smal CCork | 17105I | 297 |
−2.9%
+28.6%
+62.3%
|
+62.3%
|
14 | 20.79 | 31 | 1 |
| S N an Spioraid Naomh CCork | 19000E | 258 |
−12.2%
−6.5%
+13.2%
|
+13.2%
|
11 | 23.45 | 33 | 3 |
| Gaelscoil Ui RiadaCorcaigh | 19852J | 254 |
−8.6%
−4.2%
−5.9%
|
−5.9%
|
10 | 25.40 | 32 | 2 |
| S N Athair Maitiu CTogher | 18566D | 252 |
−6.0%
−9.4%
0.0%
|
0.0%
|
14 | 17.57 | 23 | 0 |
| S N B Togher CorkCork | 13980L | 252 |
−10.0%
−13.1%
−15.4%
|
−15.4%
|
14 | 17.14 | 25 | 0 |
| Greenmount Monastery NSGreenmount | 12473M | 240 |
+5.7%
−10.1%
−12.4%
|
−12.4%
|
11 | 19.45 | 28 | 0 |
| S N Iosef NaofaCork | 16339F | 215 |
+1.4%
+1.4%
−11.2%
|
−11.2%
|
9 | 23.22 | 29 | 0 |
| Cork Educate Together National SchoolCork | 19906G | 193 |
−6.3%
−6.8%
−12.3%
|
−12.3%
|
8 | 24.12 | 27 | 0 |
| Gaelscoil an Teaghlaigh NaofaCork | 18292P | 193 |
−10.6%
−13.8%
−16.1%
|
−16.1%
|
8 | 22.75 | 37 | 1 |
| Scoil Maria AssumptaCork | 20389T | 168 |
+8.4%
−4.0%
– |
– | 9 | 17.33 | 24 | 0 |
| South Lee Educate Together National SchoolCork City | 20522S | 162 | ––– | – | 7 | 21.43 | 26 | 0 |
| Realt na MaidineCork | 18734V | 107 |
−9.3%
−12.3%
−21.9%
|
−21.9%
|
6 | 12.83 | 18 | 0 |
| S N Barra NaofaCork | 18356P | 75 |
−22.7%
+8.7%
−11.8%
|
−11.8%
|
4 | 18.75 | 24 | 0 |
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