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Thursday, 26 March 2026
Department of Education and Skills
Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein)
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281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average, median, maximum and minimum primary school class sizes for the Cork City and Cork County Council areas from 2019 to date in 2026, in tabular form. [23419/26]
Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Please find attached requested information for the years 2019–2024 inclusive, 2024 being the latest year we have class size data. We expect to publish class data for 2025-2026 as part of our 2025-2026 final enrolment data sets in June 2026
The figures are based on mainstream classes in mainstream schools and were collated from the relevant Class Size tables. The tables are published on the Departments of Education and Youth's website and can be found at the link below;
www.gov.ie/en/collection/class-size-information-at-individual-primary-school-level/
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