Malcolm Byrne
Question:551. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education the number of primary school classrooms of 30 pupils or more and their locations around Ireland. [46748/24]
View answerWednesday, 22 January 2025
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Please find attached requested data. 2023-2024 is the most recent year we have final published class data for on the Department's website.
For additional context, in academic year 2023-2024 there was a total of 23,818 mainstream classes. 22,181 of these were of 29 pupils or less and there were 1,637 classes of 30 pupils or more, or 6.9% of the total number mainstream classes.
This figure is based on mainstream classes in mainstream primary schools and are collated from the relevant Class Size tables published on the department website and can be found at the link below:
www.gov.ie/en/collection/class-size-information-at-individual-primary-school-level/