Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 January 2026
547. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of students enrolled in post-primary fee-paying schools; and the number of those same students enrolled in a special class, in the current academic year. [6265/26]
View answerAs per preliminary enrolment data for 2025-2026 there are 27,635 pupils enrolled in fee-charging schools. The preliminary data will be replaced by the final enrolment data for 2025-26 in June 2026 at the link below;
www.gov.ie/en/department-of-education/collections/post-primary-schools-enrolment-figures/
The NCSE holds records of enrolments in individual post-primary schools and advises that, for the 2025/26 school year, one fee-charging school is operating two special classes.
The NCSE advises that there are six pupils enrolled in each of these two classes.
