Nenagh Community Special School
Nenagh · Roll number 20594U
- Special school
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 12
- Opened
- 2025/26
- With 12 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
- Girls and boys
- 4 / 8
- 33% 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 2025
Total enrolment each school year
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
Teachers
Teaching posts and special needs assistants (SNAs) at Nenagh Community Special School, 2025/26 to 2025/26.
Where these figures come from
The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates each special school its teaching posts and SNAs, and these are its figures as published each year. They're posts, not people: part of a post can be a teacher shared with another school. The NCSE published no figures for special schools for 2020/21 and 2021/22. From 2026/27 it lists a principal and deputy who don't teach a class separately; earlier files don't say how they're counted. Known data issues
In 2025/26
2teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 6 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 2
4 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 3 teaching posts and 1 exceptional post, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 8.83 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2025/26
Teaching posts each school year. Point at a bar for its SNAs.
Source: NCSE special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby
The special schools closest to Nenagh Community Special 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nenagh Community Special SchoolThis school | – | 12 | – | |
| 1 | St Annes Special SCH29.8 km · Roscrea, Co. Tipperary · Moderate general learning disability | 29.8 km | 49 |
+4.3%
|
| 2 | St Vincents SP School31.1 km · Lisnagry, Co. Limerick · Moderate general learning disability | 31.1 km | 100 |
+1.0%
|
| 3 | St Canices Special School36.5 km · Mulgrave St, Co. Limerick | 36.5 km | 7 |
−53.3%
|
| 4 | St Augustines Spec SCH36.7 km · Limerick | 36.7 km | 24 |
0.0%
|
| 5 | Mid West School For the Deaf38.0 km · Limerick · School for deaf pupils | 38.0 km | 44 |
+57.1%
|
Special classes within 10 km14 classes in 6 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Nenagh Community National School0.2 km · 2 early intervention classes and a speech and language class | 0.2 km | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | St Marys Convent0.2 km · 3 autism classes | 0.2 km | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | Bunscoil na mBráithre Críostaí0.3 km · 2 autism classes | 0.3 km | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | S N Lios an Halla4.8 km · 2 autism classes | 4.8 km | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | S N Cill Ruadhain5.1 km · 2 autism classes | 5.1 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Kiladangan N S7.6 km · 2 autism classes | 7.6 km | 2 | 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.
Too few parents answered for the Department to publish this school's results (11 households were asked). Their answers still count in the Nenagh planning area's figures, below.
| Parents of | Multi-denominational | Through Irish | Single-sex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nenagh planning area · children at school | 40% | 21% | 2% |
| Nenagh planning area · children not yet at school | 48% | 23% | 3% |
| 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
- Grace Cummins
- Phone
- 0868253321
- [email protected]
- Address
- Church Road, Nenagh, E45 XD59
School
- Ethos
- Multi Denominational
- 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
- Tipperary (Nr) County Council
- Planning area
- Nenagh
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
1 school year from 2025/26 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 12 | 4 | 8 |