Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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Question 422: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of rapidly increasing local population, a primary school (details supplied) in County Cavan will be provided with additional staffing to enable teachers to cope; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39976/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The mainstream staffing of a primary school for a particular school year is determined by reference to the enrolment of the school on the 30th September of the previous school year and by reference to a staffing schedule. This staffing schedule for the 2006/07 school year is outlined in Primary Circular 0023/2006 which was issued to all primary schools. Based on an enrolment of 278 pupils on the 30th September 2005, as submitted by the Board of Management of the school referred to by the Deputy, the mainstream staffing warranted in the school for the 2006/2007 school year is a Principal and 10 mainstream class teachers.

Within the terms of the current staffing arrangements for primary schools there is provision for additional posts, referred to as developing school posts, to be assigned to schools on the basis of projected enrolments for the next school year. A developing school is defined as a school where the enrolment on 30 September of one year is projected to exceed the enrolment on 30 September of the previous year by a minimum specified numerical increase and by having an excess of 5 pupils above the required appointment figure. The school in question has secured a developing school post for the 2006/2007 school year.The school also has the services of a learning support teacher and a language support teacher.The overall total staffing in the school for the current year is therefore Principal and 13 teachers.