Hospital School CHI at Temple Street
Dublin 1 · Roll number 17890H
- Special school
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 66
- −3 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +8%
- Up 5 from 61 in 2015/16
- Over 20 years: +54% from 43 in 2005/06
- Girls and boys
- 32 / 34
- 48% girls
The Department of Education publishes only the number of pupils, girls and boys in each special school, not pupils by class, so this page has no class or class size figures. Pupils in special schools can be aged 4 to 18. All special schools
Pupils since 1993
Total enrolment each school year
Shaded: the last 10 years, 2015/16 to 2025/26. Until 2010/11 the Department listed special schools with mainstream schools; from 2011/12 they have their own list. Pupils on 30 September each year. Known data issues
Nearby
The special schools closest to Hospital School CHI at Temple Street, and the mainstream schools within 10 km that have special classes, measured in a straight line.
Nearest special schools
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital School CHI at Temple StreetThis school | – | 66 |
+8.2%
|
|
| 1 | An Taonad Reamhscoile0.7 km · Baile Atha Cliath 1, Co. Dublin | 0.7 km | 96 |
+5.5%
|
| 2 | Henrietta Street School0.7 km · Dublin 1 | 0.7 km | 20 |
+11.1%
|
| 3 | An Cosan CSS1.2 km · Dublin 7 · Community special school | 1.2 km | 56 | – |
| 4 | St L O Tooles 2 Spec1.2 km · Dublin 1 | 1.2 km | 14 |
−39.1%
|
| 5 | St Joseph's Adolescent School1.4 km · Dublin 3 | 1.4 km | 11 |
−47.6%
|
Special classes within 10 km307 classes in 172 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Paradise Place ETNS0.4 km · An autism class | 0.4 km | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Rutland National School0.6 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 0.6 km | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Scoil Ui Chonaill Boys Seniors0.7 km · 2 autism classes | 0.7 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | S N San Vinseann Cailin1.0 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 1.0 km | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Dublin 7 Educate Together NS1.2 km · 2 autism classes | 1.2 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Presentation Primary School1.2 km · 2 autism classes and an early intervention class | 1.2 km | 3 | 3 |
| 12 | Scoil na Mbrathar Boys Senior School1.2 km · 2 autism classes | 1.2 km | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | City Quay NS1.3 km · An autism class | 1.3 km | 1 | 1 |
What parents would prefer
In the Department of Education and Youth's Primary School Survey (November–December 2025), parents said whether they would prefer this school to be co-educational or single-sex, to have a denominational or multi-denominational patron, and to teach through Irish or English. These are preferences, not applications or enrolments.
Too few parents answered for the Department to publish this school's results (1 household were asked). Their answers still count in the Drumcondra–Marino–Dublin1 planning area's figures, below.
| Parents of | Multi-denominational | Through Irish | Single-sex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drumcondra–Marino–Dublin1 planning area · children at school | 55% | 23% | 10% |
| Drumcondra–Marino–Dublin1 planning area · children not yet at school | 58% | 33% | 11% |
| Ireland · children at school | 44% | 20% | 5% |
| Ireland · children not yet at school | 47% | 26% | 6% |
Source: Department of Education and Youth, Primary School Survey results, published 23 June 2026. Planning-area and Ireland figures also count parents at schools where too few answered for the school to get its own results. About these figures
About this school
Inspection reports open on gov.ie, under the name the school had when it was inspected. Newer schools may not have one yet.
Contact
- Principal
- Ann Higgins
- Phone
- 018784630
- [email protected]
- Address
- Temple Street, Dublin 1, D01 YC67
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- Patron
- Archbishop of Dublin
- School type
- Special school
- DEIS
- Not DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- No subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Dublin City Council
- Planning area
- Drumcondra–Marino–Dublin1
Each detail is the latest one the Department of Education has recorded for this school. The designation is the need the NCSE lists the school as set up for; many special schools now take pupils with a wider range of needs. Known data issues
Data by year
33 school years from 1993/94 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 66 | 32 | 34 |
| 2024/25 | 69 | 34 | 35 |
| 2023/24 | 90 | 44 | 46 |
| 2022/23 | 75 | 39 | 36 |
| 2021/22 | 77 | 41 | 36 |
| 2020/21 | 64 | 36 | 28 |
| 2019/20 | 68 | 37 | 31 |
| 2018/19 | 70 | 37 | 33 |
| 2017/18 | 71 | 39 | 32 |
| 2016/17 | 64 | 29 | 35 |
| 2015/16 | 61 | 27 | 34 |
| 2014/15 | 64 | 36 | 28 |
| 2013/14 | 61 | 24 | 37 |
| 2012/13 | 58 | 29 | 29 |
| 2011/12 | 43 | 17 | 26 |
| 2010/11 | 47 | 18 | 29 |
| 2009/10 | 40 | 19 | 21 |
| 2008/09 | 40 | 19 | 21 |
| 2007/08 | 41 | 19 | 22 |
| 2006/07 | 32 | 18 | 14 |
| 2005/06 | 43 | 24 | 19 |
| 2004/05 | 42 | 19 | 23 |
| 2003/04 | 31 | 15 | 16 |
| 2002/03 | 36 | 19 | 17 |
| 2001/02 | 35 | 17 | 18 |
| 2000/01 | 30 | 16 | 14 |
| 1999/00 | 31 | 10 | 21 |
| 1998/99 | 32 | 18 | 14 |
| 1997/98 | 21 | 8 | 13 |
| 1996/97 | 30 | 15 | 15 |
| 1995/96 | 32 | 9 | 23 |
| 1994/95 | 31 | 9 | 22 |
| 1993/94 | 25 | 10 | 15 |