Not all disadvantaged schools will benefit from lower pupil:teacher ratio

Announcing further details of her department’s budget on Wednesday, Norma Foley, the Minister for Education, said she was “particularly pleased” to have secured funding to tackle overcrowded classrooms. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Not all disadvantaged primary schools will be included in plans to tackle Ireland’s historically overcrowded classrooms.

Plans to reduce the pupil:teacher ratio in primary school classrooms do not extend to Deis band one junior schools and 'vertical schools' which cater for mixed aged pupils.