Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 October 2023
220. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Education the total number of 6th-class students enrolled in primary schools in the Dublin 8 SPA in each of the years from 2015-2016 to 2021-2022, specifying the number of students in Catholic, Church of Ireland, and multi-denominational primary schools. [43991/23]
View answerPlease find attached requested data. Data for 2015 is taken from the National School Annual census for that year. Data from 2016-2022 is taken from the Primary Online Database, both sets of data are for the number of pupils in 6th class as per the census date, 30th September for each year.
6th class pupil in Dublin 8 SPA
|
Ethos |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
|
Catholic |
298 |
268 |
283 |
280 |
255 |
272 |
324 |
307 |
|
Church Of Ireland |
36 |
23 |
31 |
31 |
32 |
41 |
37 |
40 |
|
Multi Denominational |
54 |
29 |
33 |
35 |
44 |
57 |
55 |
81 |
|
Grand Total |
2403 |
320 |
347 |
346 |
331 |
370 |
416 |
428 |
