North Cork Community Special School
Cork · Roll number 20597D
- Special school
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 19
- Opened
- 2025/26
- With 19 pupils. Too new for a 10-year change.
- Girls and boys
- 3 / 16
- 16% 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 North Cork 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
4teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 4.8 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 4
8 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 8 teaching posts, a principal and 2 deputy principals who don't teach a class, and 24 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 North Cork 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Cork Community Special SchoolThis school | – | 19 | – | |
| 1 | East Cork Community Special School24.2 km · Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork · Community special school | 24.2 km | 32 | – |
| 2 | Cara Junior School25.6 km · Cork · Autism | 25.6 km | 72 | – |
| 3 | Scoil Triest25.9 km · Glanmire, Co. Cork · Multiple disabilities | 25.9 km | 72 |
+1.4%
|
| 4 | St Killians Spec SCH26.0 km · Cork · Specific learning disability | 26.0 km | 106 |
+53.6%
|
| 5 | St Bernadettes Spec SCH26.9 km · Montenotte, Co. Cork · Mild general learning disability | 26.9 km | 132 |
+8.2%
|
Special classes within 10 km21 classes in 11 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Gaelscoil de hIde0.0 km · An autism classA new class in 2026/27 | 0.0 km | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Bishop Murphy Memorial Boys Senior National School0.9 km · 2 autism classes | 0.9 km | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | Scoil Freastogail Muire0.9 km · 4 autism classes and an early intervention class | 0.9 km | 5 | 0 |
| 9 | Iosef Naofa1.6 km · 2 autism classes | 1.6 km | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Grange Fermoy N S2.7 km · 2 autism classes | 2.7 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Scoil Mháirtin5.6 km · 2 autism classes | 5.6 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Castlelyons B N S6.6 km · An autism class and a moderate general learning disability class | 6.6 km | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Kilmagner N S7.9 km · An autism class | 7.9 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.
Children at this school
Their parents: 7 of 19 households answered (37%). The true figures are likely within 26.4 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: 26.4 points either way.
| Parents of | Multi-denominational | Through Irish | Single-sex |
|---|---|---|---|
| This school · children at school | 57% | 0% | 0% |
| Fermoy planning area · children at school | 44% | 21% | 4% |
| Fermoy planning area · children not yet at school | 48% | 28% | 6% |
| 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
- Jennifer Kiely
- Phone
- 0868319013
- [email protected]
- Address
- Carrignavar, Cork, P61 PF63
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
- Cork County Council
- Planning area
- Fermoy
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 | 19 | 3 | 16 |