Tipperary Education and Training Board (ETB) is to become Patron of the county’s latest special school, opening in Nenagh for the 2025/26 academic year. The announcement was made by the Department of Education after the move was backed by the Tipperary ETB Board at its latest meeting in Thurles yesterday.
Work is underway to identify the most suitable site and staffing requirements for the new school, which will support children from 4 to 18 years old from across the north Tipperary area. Student registration details for the new school will be announced at a later date.
Special schools support students with more severe and/or complex special educational needs in cases where full-time placement in mainstream classrooms would not benefit the student.
Tipperary ETB is deeply involved in education services across the county including at primary, secondary, further education, apprenticeships and community education.
Chief Executive of Tipperary ETB, Bernadette Cullen, says the ETB will be working closely with colleagues at Scoil Chormaic and Scoil Aonghusa in Cashel, and St Anne’s School in Roscrea, as it establishes it’s first special school in time for the next academic year.
The announcement has been welcomed by Tipperary TD Ryan O’Meara.
Priorto the dissolution of the last Dáil, the outgoing Government confirmed that five new special schools would be built nationally, with one of these to be located in County Tipperary. Deputy O’Meara says “he was adamant that North Tipperary was the ideal location for this school, and is delighted that Nenagh has won out as the preferred location.”
