St Patricks BNS
Clane · Roll number 19796C
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Ordinary with Special Classes
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 488
- +14 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- −1%
- Down 6 from 494 in 2015/16
- 18 classes in 2015/16, 19 now; average class 27.4 → 25.1
- Over 20 years: +18% from 412 in 2005/06
- Girls and boys
- 0 / 488
- 0% girls
Pupils since 1982
Total enrolment each school year
Shaded: the last 10 years, 2015/16 to 2025/26. 1983/84 is left out because its source file is incomplete, and no files exist for 1984/85 to 1992/93. Known data issues
Pupils by class
Published for each class from 2020/21.
This year, 2025/26
488 pupils across 8 classes
Every class, every year
Darker cells have more pupils. A group of pupils moves down one class and right one year.
| 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Infants | 52 | 56 | 51 | 50 | 54 | 70 | 55.5 |
| Senior Infants | 56 | 52 | 56 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 53.3 |
| 1st Class | 74 | 57 | 54 | 56 | 53 | 52 | 57.7 |
| 2nd Class | 57 | 77 | 57 | 56 | 56 | 56 | 59.8 |
| 3rd Class | 75 | 57 | 82 | 58 | 56 | 59 | 64.5 |
| 4th Class | 74 | 78 | 57 | 84 | 58 | 56 | 67.8 |
| 5th Class | 48 | 75 | 82 | 58 | 83 | 58 | 67.3 |
| 6th Class | 60 | 47 | 80 | 83 | 57 | 82 | 68.2 |
JI and SI are Junior and Senior Infants.
Started Junior Infants in 2024/25
54 in Junior Infants (2024/25), 55 in Senior Infants (2025/26): 1 pupil more.
- 54Junior Infants2024/25
- 55Senior Infants2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2023/24
50 in Junior Infants (2023/24), 52 in 1st Class (2025/26): 2 pupils more.
- 50Junior Infants2023/24
- 51Senior Infants2024/25
- 521st Class2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2022/23
51 in Junior Infants (2022/23), 56 in 2nd Class (2025/26): 5 pupils more.
- 51Junior Infants2022/23
- 50Senior Infants2023/24
- 531st Class2024/25
- 562nd Class2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2021/22
56 in Junior Infants (2021/22), 59 in 3rd Class (2025/26): 3 pupils more.
- 56Junior Infants2021/22
- 56Senior Infants2022/23
- 561st Class2023/24
- 562nd Class2024/25
- 593rd Class2025/26
Started Junior Infants in 2020/21
52 in Junior Infants (2020/21), 56 in 4th Class (2025/26): 4 pupils more.
- 52Junior Infants2020/21
- 52Senior Infants2021/22
- 541st Class2022/23
- 562nd Class2023/24
- 563rd Class2024/25
- 564th Class2025/26
In Senior Infants in 2020/21
56 in Senior Infants (2020/21), 58 in 5th Class (2025/26): 2 pupils more.
- 56Senior Infants2020/21
- 571st Class2021/22
- 572nd Class2022/23
- 583rd Class2023/24
- 584th Class2024/25
- 585th Class2025/26
In 1st Class in 2020/21
74 in 1st Class (2020/21), 82 in 6th Class (2025/26): 8 pupils more.
- 741st Class2020/21
- 772nd Class2021/22
- 823rd Class2022/23
- 844th Class2023/24
- 835th Class2024/25
- 826th Class2025/26
In 2nd Class in 2020/21
57 in 2nd Class (2020/21), 57 in 6th Class (2024/25): no change.
- 572nd Class2020/21
- 573rd Class2021/22
- 574th Class2022/23
- 585th Class2023/24
- 576th Class2024/25
In 3rd Class in 2020/21
75 in 3rd Class (2020/21), 83 in 6th Class (2023/24): 8 pupils more.
- 753rd Class2020/21
- 784th Class2021/22
- 825th Class2022/23
- 836th Class2023/24
In 4th Class in 2020/21
74 in 4th Class (2020/21), 80 in 6th Class (2022/23): 6 pupils more.
- 744th Class2020/21
- 755th Class2021/22
- 806th Class2022/23
In 5th Class in 2020/21
48 in 5th Class (2020/21), 47 in 6th Class (2021/22): 1 pupil fewer.
- 485th Class2020/21
- 476th Class2021/22
Biggest one-year changes in a class
- +336th Class in 2022/23 (47 to 80)
- −264th Class in 2024/25 (84 to 58)
Class sizes
Mainstream class groups, 2006/07 to 2025/26.
Why these won't match pupils by class
Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to. So these figures won't match the pupils-by-class figures exactly.
In 2025/26. Choose a figure to chart it.
Class sizes over time
Average class size, 2006/07 to 2025/26
Teachers
Who teaches at St Patricks BNS, 2006/07 to 2025/26.
How we count teachers
Class teachers come from the Department of Education's class sizes: one for each mainstream class. Special education and special class teachers are the posts the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates. We add a principal who doesn't teach a class where the Department's rules give the school one. These are posts, not people: part of a post can be a teacher shared with another school. Up to 2015/16 the Department counted every teacher itself. Known data issues
In 2025/26
29.9teaching posts
Our estimate: about 30 teachers.
- Class teachersOne for each of the 19 mainstream classes 19
- PrincipalRuns the school and doesn't teach a class 1
- Special education teachers197.5 hours of support teaching a week 7.9
- Special class teachersFor 2 autism classes 2
10.66 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils. 12 pupils are in special classes, which the class sizes leave out.
The NCSE has allocated 7.9 special education teachers, 3 special class teachers and 13 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2006/07
Teachers each school year, by role
To 2015/16: the Department of Education's count of every teacher. From 2019/20: our estimate, from class sizes and the NCSE's allocations. Dashed boxes: no special education figures were published for those years, so only class teachers and the principal are shown. Known data issues
Sources: Department of Education class sizes and teacher counts; NCSE school allocations and special classes (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby schools
The 6 primary schools closest to St Patricks BNS, measured in a straight line. Pupil numbers are for 2025/26.
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Patricks BNSThis school | – | 488 |
−1.2%
|
|
| 1 | Scoil Naisiunta Bhride0.1 km · Clane · Girls | 0.1 km | 480 |
+2.6%
|
| 2 | Hewetsons N S1.2 km · Clane · Church of Ireland | 1.2 km | 89 |
+3.5%
|
| 3 | Prosperous N S3.7 km · Naas | 3.7 km | 493 |
−7.7%
|
| 4 | Rathcoffey N S4.9 km · Rathcoffey South | 4.9 km | 215 |
−4.0%
|
| 5 | St Laurences National School5.2 km · Sallins | 5.2 km | 646 |
−8.6%
|
| 6 | Straffan N S6.2 km · Naas | 6.2 km | 401 |
+30.2%
|
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.
Children at this school
Their parents: 218 of 410 households answered (53%). The true figures are likely within 5.5 points either way.
Patron
Teaching language
Boys and girls
Children not yet at school
Fewer than 30 parents of children not yet at school chose this school, so the Department didn't publish their answers.
The bracket shows the margin of error the Department published for this school: 5.5 points either way.
| Parents of | Multi-denominational | Through Irish | Single-sex |
|---|---|---|---|
| This school · children at school | 52% | 13% | 15% |
| Prosperous–Clane planning area · children at school | 49% | 16% | 8% |
| Prosperous–Clane planning area · children not yet at school | 52% | 23% | 9% |
| 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. They describe specific areas of the school's work rather than giving an overall grade. Newer schools may not have one yet.
Contact
- Principal
- Cathal Carr
- Phone
- 045868620
- [email protected]
- Address
- Clane, Co. Kildare, W91 FC97
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- Patron
- Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin
- School type
- Ordinary with Special Classes
- School level
- All Through
- DEIS
- Not DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- No subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Kildare County Council
- Planning area
- Prosperous–Clane
Each detail is the latest one the Department of Education has recorded for this school. If a detail was left blank in 2025/26, we show it from an earlier year, so some details may be older than the pupil numbers. Known data issues
Data by year
35 school years from 1982/83 to 2025/26. Class figures start in 2020/21.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys | JI | SI | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 488 | 0 | 488 | 70 | 55 | 52 | 56 | 59 | 56 | 58 | 82 |
| 2024/25 | 474 | – | 474 | 54 | 51 | 53 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 83 | 57 |
| 2023/24 | 501 | 0 | 501 | 50 | 50 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 84 | 58 | 83 |
| 2022/23 | 524 | – | 524 | 51 | 56 | 54 | 57 | 82 | 57 | 82 | 80 |
| 2021/22 | 503 | – | 503 | 56 | 52 | 57 | 77 | 57 | 78 | 75 | 47 |
| 2020/21 | 496 | – | 496 | 52 | 56 | 74 | 57 | 75 | 74 | 48 | 60 |
| 2019/20 | 523 | – | 523 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2018/19 | 530 | – | 530 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2017/18 | 520 | – | 520 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2016/17 | 511 | 0 | 511 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2015/16 | 494 | 0 | 494 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2014/15 | 461 | 0 | 461 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2013/14 | 462 | 0 | 462 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2012/13 | 470 | 0 | 470 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2011/12 | 450 | 0 | 450 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2010/11 | 455 | 0 | 455 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2009/10 | 455 | 0 | 455 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2008/09 | 440 | 0 | 440 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2007/08 | 441 | 0 | 441 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2006/07 | 431 | 0 | 431 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2005/06 | 412 | 0 | 412 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2004/05 | 398 | 0 | 398 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2003/04 | 393 | 0 | 393 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2002/03 | 366 | 0 | 366 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2001/02 | 354 | 0 | 354 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2000/01 | 356 | 0 | 356 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1999/00 | 324 | 0 | 324 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1998/99 | 322 | 0 | 322 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1997/98 | 326 | 0 | 326 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1996/97 | 333 | 0 | 333 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1995/96 | 301 | – | 301 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1994/95 | 280 | – | 280 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1993/94 | 293 | – | 293 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1983/84 | 350 | 0 | 350 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1982/83 | 359 | 0 | 359 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |