Written answers
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Department of Education and Skills
Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown, by county, of the number of children at primary level in classes of 30 or more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15313/15]
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Provisional results from the 2014/2015 National School Annual Census showing the breakdown by county of the number of children at primary level is classes of 30 ore more are shown in the following table. Final figures will be published at the end of June. Further details on individual school class size is available on my Department's website at www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Data-on-Individual-Schools/.
PROVISIONAL DATA ONLY - Number of pupils in each class size range at individual national school level, 2014/2015
Note: The data contained in this sheet is sourced from the 2014/2015 National School Annual Census and refers to pupils in mainstream classes only.
- | Class Size Range (number of mainstream pupils) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | 0-9 | 10-19 | 20-24 | 25-29 | 30-34 | 35-39 | 40-45 | ||
Local Authority Area | Total Mainstream Class Pupils | Number of Mainstream Class Pupils in Classes of 30 Pupils or More | |||||||
Carlow County Council | 24 | 319 | 1,430 | 3,283 | 2,310 | 72 | 7,438 | 2,382 | |
Cavan County Council | 44 | 847 | 3,022 | 3,918 | 1,436 | 175 | 9,442 | 1,611 | |
Clare County Council | 86 | 1,719 | 3,734 | 4,700 | 2,912 | 546 | 13,697 | 3,458 | |
Cork City Council | 2,404 | 3,550 | 5,303 | 1,926 | 284 | 13,467 | 2,210 | ||
Cork County Council | 92 | 3,383 | 11,124 | 19,247 | 11,113 | 1,619 | 40 | 46,618 | 12,772 |
Donegal County Council | 110 | 2,648 | 4,592 | 7,887 | 3,353 | 140 | 18,730 | 3,493 | |
Dublin City Council | 40 | 7,230 | 11,524 | 16,973 | 7,664 | 466 | 43,897 | 8,130 | |
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown | 9 | 972 | 2,701 | 9,119 | 5,448 | 35 | 18,284 | 5,483 | |
Fingal County Council | 1,415 | 6,277 | 19,419 | 8,261 | 142 | 35,514 | 8,403 | ||
Galway City Council | 9 | 1,102 | 2,550 | 2,103 | 1,322 | 106 | 7,192 | 1,428 | |
Galway County Council | 166 | 2,833 | 6,208 | 7,904 | 4,315 | 465 | 21,891 | 4,780 | |
Kerry County Council | 69 | 1,913 | 4,494 | 6,056 | 2,760 | 495 | 15,787 | 3,255 | |
Kildare County Council | 914 | 6,341 | 14,009 | 6,993 | 464 | 28,721 | 7,457 | ||
Kilkenny County Council | 32 | 983 | 2,231 | 4,725 | 2,294 | 464 | 10,729 | 2,758 | |
Laois County Council | 15 | 807 | 2,555 | 4,427 | 2,656 | 216 | 10,676 | 2,872 | |
Leitrim County Council | 24 | 675 | 865 | 1,294 | 660 | 106 | 3,624 | 766 | |
Limerick City Council | 17 | 1,044 | 1,627 | 2,684 | 1,393 | 6,765 | 1,393 | ||
Limerick County Council | 23 | 1,364 | 3,528 | 5,914 | 3,607 | 573 | 15,009 | 4,180 | |
Longford County Council | 6 | 693 | 1,569 | 1,989 | 974 | 5,231 | 974 | ||
Louth County Council | 1,229 | 4,452 | 6,546 | 3,714 | 569 | 16,510 | 4,283 | ||
Mayo County Council | 159 | 2,751 | 3,212 | 5,616 | 2,449 | 144 | 14,331 | 2,593 | |
Meath County Council | 16 | 982 | 4,646 | 12,037 | 7,580 | 508 | 25,769 | 8,088 | |
Monaghan County Council | 9 | 831 | 1,991 | 2,879 | 1,478 | 213 | 7,401 | 1,691 | |
Offaly County Council | 14 | 1,046 | 2,589 | 4,054 | 1,638 | 286 | 9,627 | 1,924 | |
Roscommon County Council | 67 | 1,445 | 1,804 | 2,756 | 1,060 | 7,132 | 1,060 | ||
Sligo County Council | 39 | 795 | 2,155 | 2,677 | 1,429 | 108 | 7,203 | 1,537 | |
South Dublin County Council | 23 | 3,058 | 7,472 | 15,666 | 7,460 | 210 | 33,889 | 7,670 | |
Tipperary (NR) County Council | 21 | 1,018 | 1,960 | 3,494 | 1,700 | 109 | 8,302 | 1,809 | |
Tipperary (SR) County Council | 42 | 1,368 | 2,925 | 3,782 | 1,711 | 140 | 9,968 | 1,851 | |
Waterford City Council | 390 | 1,272 | 3,371 | 1,083 | 6,116 | 1,083 | |||
Waterford County Council | 14 | 536 | 1,964 | 3,180 | 1,993 | 212 | 7,899 | 2,205 | |
Westmeath County Council | 23 | 1,081 | 2,398 | 4,959 | 2,285 | 106 | 10,852 | 2,391 | |
Wexford County Council | 25 | 1,299 | 4,684 | 7,449 | 4,191 | 509 | 18,157 | 4,700 | |
Wicklow County Council | 7 | 1,019 | 3,340 | 7,798 | 4,515 | 387 | 17,066 | 4,902 | |
Grand Total | 1,225 | 52,113 | 126,786 | 227,218 | 115,683 | 9,869 | 40 | 532,934 | 125,592 |
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