School Enrolments

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 31 January 2017

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Questions (182)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Question:

182. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Skills the current enrolment numbers and the capacity for schools (details supplied). [3973/17]

Written answers

Minister for Education and Skills

I wish to advise the Deputy that the primary school enrolment information requested is set out in the spreadsheet. The source of this data was obtained from my Department's Statistics Section's Annual Census 2016-2017. The data is still provisional and it is expected that final data will be published in April 2017.

The matter of enrolment in individual schools is the responsibility of the managerial authority of the school. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking places.

Enrolments increased slightly, in the first and second named primary schools referenced in the details supplied by the Deputy and reduced slightly at the fourth named primary school.  As the Deputy will be aware, a building project for the third named primary school listed in the details supplied is included on the 6 Year School Construction  Programme and is currently progressing through the architectural planning process. It would appear that there is capacity in these primary schools.

With regard to the post primary school referenced in the details supplied, there were 170 pupils enrolled in the post-primary school last September. This is a reduction of ten pupils since 2011 and suggests that, currently, there is existing capacity in this school.

-	-	-	-	-	-	Mainstream	Mainstream	Mainstream	Mainstream	Mainstream	Mainstream	Mainstream	Mainstream
-	-	-	-	-	-	Junior Infants	Senior Infants	First Class	Second Class	Third Class	Fourth Class	Fifth Class	Sixth Class
County Description	Roll Number	Academic Year (Enrolment)	Address Line 2	Official Name	Address Line 1	Enrolment	Enrolment	Enrolment	Enrolment	Enrolment	Enrolment	Enrolment	Enrolment
Dublin	07546J	2016	INCHICORE	GOLDENBRIDGE CONVENT	GOLDENBRIDGE	44	45	41	39	30	26	40	18
Dublin	17083B	2016	INCHICORE	S N MUIRE GAN SMAL B	TYRCONNELL ROAD	46	51	44	44	40	42	30	31
Dublin	19589U	2016	BAILE ATHA CLIATH 8	GAELSCOIL INSE CHOR	DROICHEAD NA HINSE	29	28	29	31	26	26	27	32
Dublin	20139T	2016	INCHICORE	INCHICORE NS	SARSFIELD ROAD	23	25	24	27	20	46	21	37

Question No. 183 answered with Question No. 166.