Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 1 June 2006
209 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils in a school (details supplied) in County Kildare who are accommodated in permanent buildings and temporary accommodation; the agreed long term enrolment for the school; and the numbers anticipated at the school for intake in September 2006. [21412/06]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe school in question had an enrolment of 412 pupils as of 30 September, 2005. Its current accommodation comprises 12 permanent mainstream classrooms, 2 prefabricated mainstream classrooms and 3 prefabricated resource rooms. The school has also been given approval to rent an additional prefabricated mainstream classroom from September 2006.
Officials in the School Planning Section of my Department have assessed the long-term needs of the school and have recommended the provision of an extension to the school to cater for an overall accommodation need of Principal + 24 mainstream assistants. The school authority has accepted this recommendation.
The project has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale projects and has been assigned a Band 2 rating. Progress on the project is being considered in the context of the School Building and Modernisation Programme from 2006 onwards.
The school is a two-stream fully vertical school and it is therefore expected that it will have an intake of two junior infants' classes in September, 2006.
