News - class sizes

It's after funding was announced yesterday for the extension to Scoil Mhuire, which is based in two different locations.

The organisation is calling on the incoming Government to reduce this to 19 students in mainstream schools and to 15 students in Deis schools.

Leitrim is the county with the highest proportion of classes with 30 or more pupils nationally, at 18.6%

More than half of primary school pupils in the Shannonside Northern Sound region are in overcrowded classrooms. Ireland has the most overcrowded primary classrooms in