![]() ![]() The latest figures show the school with the highest average class size in the country is a gaelscoil on Dublin’s northside – Scoil Mobhí in Glasnevin. While numbers attending primary school have grown by 28pc since 2000, they are projected to fall over the next 15 years with Donegal and Clare already recording fewer pupils than 10 years ago. There has been an even more significant decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio over the past 20 years, falling from 19.2 in 2000 to 14.5 last year due largely to the hiring of over 6,000 extra teachers and almost 10,000 special needs assistants over the period. One of the main factors in the reduction in average class sizes and overcrowded classes is the drop in overall enrolment levels in 3,107 mainstream primary schools by over 7,000 last year. ![]() The proportion of students in classes of 30 or more decreased from 17.8pc to 14.3pc in the space of 12 months.Īlthough 78,320 students were still in classrooms considered overcrowded, it was a decrease of almost 20,000 on the previous year. The latest figures also reveal that just 1 in 7 pupils in mainstream primary schools were in overcrowded classes during the school year which ended in June. It is also the largest annual change over the past two decades and the lowest annual figure since 2008. ![]() New figures published by the Department of Education show the average class size decreased from 24.1 students in 2019/20 to 23.3 in the school year which ended in June. Average class sizes in primary schools have fallen to their lowest level in 20 years, while there was also a sharp decrease in the number of pupils in overcrowded classes last year. ![]()
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