Charlie McConalogue
Question:938. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools with one mainstream teacher in 2011-12; 2012-13; 2013-14 and to date in 2014-15. [42118/14]
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Questions (938, 939)
Charlie McConalogue
Question:939. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of newly established primary schools with one mainstream teacher in 2011/12; 2012/13; 2013/14 and to date in 2014/15. [42119/14]
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 938 and 939 together.
In 2011/12 there were eleven schools with one mainstream class teacher of which one was newly established on 1st September 2011.
In 2012/13 there were eleven schools with one mainstream class teacher of which one was newly established on 1st September 2012.
In 2013/14 there were twenty nine schools with one mainstream class teacher of which five were newly established on 1st September 2013.
Data on teacher size of schools can be found on the Department's website in the files called Class size information at individual primary school level, link below.
http://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Data-on-Individual-Schools/
Data on one teacher schools for 2014/15 is not yet available. Data refers to the number of teachers reported by schools in their National School Annual Census. The newly established schools referred to with one mainstream teacher in the year they opened were established to become fully vertical schools that would grow incrementally each year and develop naturally over time to become single, double or three stream schools (i.e. 8, 16 or 24 mainstream teacher schools).