Cork University Hos School
Cork · Roll number 20119N
- Special school
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 17
- −14 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- −6%
- Down 1 from 18 in 2015/16
- Over 20 years: −26% from 23 in 2005/06, while it was still adding classes
- Girls and boys
- 8 / 9
- 47% 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 2000
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 Cork University Hos School, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cork University Hos SchoolThis school | – | 17 |
−5.6%
|
|
| 1 | St Gabriels Special School1.9 km · Cork. · Severe or profound general learning disability | 1.9 km | 54 |
+42.1%
|
| 2 | St Kevins School3.2 km · Cork | 3.2 km | 10 |
−16.7%
|
| 3 | Scoil Aislinn4.0 km · Cork · Autism | 4.0 km | 36 | – |
| 4 | Scoil Eanna5.3 km · Cork · Mild general learning disability | 5.3 km | 66 |
−1.5%
|
| 5 | St Paul's School5.4 km · Cork · Moderate general learning disability | 5.4 km | 92 |
−3.2%
|
Special classes within 10 km140 classes in 59 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Muire gan Smal C0.9 km · A moderate general learning disability class | 0.9 km | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Scoil Mhuire gan Smal B0.9 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 0.9 km | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | S N Athair Maitiu C1.4 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 1.4 km | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | S N B Togher Cork1.4 km · 2 autism classes | 1.4 km | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Scoil Maria Assumpta2.1 km · 2 autism classes | 2.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | South Lee Educate Together National School2.1 km · 2 autism classes | 2.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Realt na Maidine2.2 km · 5 autism classes | 2.2 km | 5 | 5 |
| 13 | S N Iosef Naofa2.2 km · An autism class | 2.2 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 Glasheen–CorkCity planning area's figures, below.
| Parents of | Multi-denominational | Through Irish | Single-sex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glasheen–CorkCity planning area · children at school | 47% | 23% | 21% |
| Glasheen–CorkCity planning area · children not yet at school | 57% | 34% | 16% |
| 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
- Laura Woods
- Phone
- 0214346450
- [email protected]
- Address
- Children's Ward, Wilton, Cork, T12 DC4A
School
- Ethos
- Multi Denominational
- Patron
- CEO of Cork University Hospital
- 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
- Cork City Council
- Planning area
- Glasheen–CorkCity
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
26 school years from 2000/01 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 17 | 8 | 9 |
| 2024/25 | 31 | 17 | 14 |
| 2023/24 | 17 | 10 | 7 |
| 2022/23 | 16 | 9 | 7 |
| 2021/22 | 14 | 7 | 7 |
| 2020/21 | 16 | 9 | 7 |
| 2019/20 | 13 | 8 | 5 |
| 2018/19 | 13 | 6 | 7 |
| 2017/18 | 13 | 5 | 8 |
| 2016/17 | 16 | 8 | 8 |
| 2015/16 | 18 | 8 | 10 |
| 2014/15 | 15 | 10 | 5 |
| 2013/14 | 17 | 8 | 9 |
| 2012/13 | 20 | 11 | 9 |
| 2011/12 | 30 | 13 | 17 |
| 2010/11 | 25 | 11 | 14 |
| 2009/10 | 28 | 9 | 19 |
| 2008/09 | 20 | 7 | 13 |
| 2007/08 | 22 | 9 | 13 |
| 2006/07 | 20 | 7 | 13 |
| 2005/06 | 23 | 11 | 12 |
| 2004/05 | 19 | 7 | 12 |
| 2003/04 | 20 | 10 | 10 |
| 2002/03 | 13 | 7 | 6 |
| 2001/02 | 20 | 11 | 9 |
| 2000/01 | 14 | 4 | 10 |