A community school () in the

Republic of Ireland Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern ...

is a type of secondary school funded individually and directly by the state. Community and comprehensive schools were established in the 1960s to provide a broad curriculum for all the young people in a community. Both academic and vocational programmes are available and facilities are broader than at

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schools. The facilities are for use by the community and

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in addition to normal programmes of education at this level. Many of these schools were established as the result of an amalgamation of voluntary secondary and vocational schools. They offer a wide range of both academic and vocational subjects. Community schools are managed by boards of management which are representative of local interests. The schools are financed entirely by the Department of Education and Skills. The representative body for these schools is the Association of Community and Comprehensive Schools.

List of community schools in Ireland

Ardee Community School Ardee Community School, also known as St Killian's or ACS, is a Community school (Ireland), community school located in Ardee, County Louth, Ireland. It is a co-educational school where pupils of all religious denominations study together. As is the ...

* Ashbourne Community School *

Athboy Community School Athboy () is a small agricultural town located in County Meath. The town is located on the ''Yellow Ford River'', in wooded country near the County Westmeath border. Local Clubs are Clann Na nGael and Athboy Celtic. History In medieval time ...

Bailieborough Community School Bailieborough Community School, alternatively spelled as Bailieboro, and commonly referred to as BCS, is a community school located in the town of Bailieborough, County Cavan, Ireland. The school was an amalgamation of two previous schools in th ...

Ballinamore Community School Ballinamore (, meaning "mouth of the big ford") is a small town in County Leitrim, Ireland. Etymology , corrupted ''Bellanamore'', means "town at the mouth of the big ford", so named because it was a main crossing (ford) of the Yellow River. T ...

* Balincollig Community School *

Ballinrobe Community School Ballinrobe Community School is a secondary school in Ballinrobe, County Mayo. It is a mixed gender school and it was opened in September 1990, after the merging of 3 second level schools in Ballinrobe. As of the start of the 2020 school year, Wil ...

Ballinteer Community School Ballinteer () is a small southside suburb of Dublin, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland, extensively developed from the late 1960s onwards. Geography Ballinteer is located approximately from the city centre. To the west is Ra ...

Ballyhaunis Community School Ballyhaunis () is a town in County Mayo, Ireland. It is at the crossroads of the N60 and N83 National secondary roads and on the railway line linking Dublin to Westport and Ballina. It is thought that the town grew up around St Mary's Augu ...

Beara Community School Beara may refer to: *Beara, Jamalpur, a village Bangladesh * Beara Peninsula, Ireland *Beara GAA, a sporting organisation on the Beara Peninsula * ''Beara'' (moth), a genus of Nolidae *Beara, Ampanihy, a rural municipality in Ampanihy Ouest (dist ...

* Beaufort Community School *

Bishopstown Community School Bishopstown Community School is a secondary school in the Bishopstown area of Cork city in Ireland. Established in 1979, it is the only co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation ...

Blackwater Community School Blackwater Community School ( ga, Pobalscoil na hAbhann Móire) (BCS) is a co-educational, multi-denominational community school in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. The school offers Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate programmes. It ...

* Blakestown Community School *

Boyne Community School Boyne is a variation of Bóinn or Boann, Irish goddess of the River Boyne. Boyne may also refer to: Places * Boyne Castle, a ruined castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland * Boyne City, Michigan, a town in Charlevoix County in the U.S. state of Mic ...

* Cabintreely Community School *

Carndonagh Community School Carndonagh Community School ( ga, Pobalscoil Charn Domhnaigh) is a secondary school located in Carndonagh, County Donegal, Ireland. History Carndonagh Community School was formed in 1972 by the merger of Carndonagh College (a local boys' scho ...

Carrigaline Community School Carrigaline () is a town and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland, situated on the River Owenabue. Located about south of Cork city, and with a population of 15,770 people, it is one of the largest commuter towns of the city. The R611 region ...

Cashel Community School Cashel Community School is secondary school in Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. It was opened In 1994 It is an amalgamation of three former schools in the town; the Presentation Convent girls school, boys Christian Brothers school and Voc ...

Castlerea Community School Castlerea (; ) is the third largest town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located in the west of the county and had a population of 1,992 at the 2016 Census. Roughly translated from Irish, Castlerea is generally thought to mean 'brindled ca ...

Celbridge Community School Celbridge (; ) is a town and townland on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland. It is west of Dublin. Both a local centre and a commuter town within the Greater Dublin Area, it is located at the intersection of the R403 and R405 regi ...

Douglas Community School Douglas Community School, also known as Douglas Com, The Com or DCS, is an all-boys community school in Douglas, Cork, Ireland. It was founded as Coláiste Muire by the Presentation Brothers in 1926 as a juniorate (i.e. for lower-cycle secon ...

Dunmore Community School Dunmore from the ga, Dún Mór, link=no or gd, Dùn Mòr, link=no, meaning "great fort", may refer to: People * Dunmore (surname) * Earl of Dunmore, a title in the Peerage of Scotland, includes a list of earls * Countess of Dunmore (disambiguat ...

Gallen Community School Gallen may refer to: ;Places: * Gallen (barony), a barony in Ireland * Sankt Gallen (disambiguation), various German-speaking countries ;People: * Saint Gall, Irish missionary, ''Sankt Gallus'' in German * Conal Gallen, Irish singer/comedian * ...

* Glanamaddy Community School *

Glanmire Community School Glanmire () is a suburban town from Cork city centre, in the civil parish of Rathcooney, County Cork, Ireland. Glanmire is within the administrative area of Cork City Council and the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central. The greater Gl ...

Gorey Community School Gorey Community School is located in Gorey County Wexford, Ireland. It is the largest school in Ireland, and (as of 2018) had over 1500 students enrolled. History Gorey Community School was established in 1993, following the amalgamation of t ...

Gort Community School Gort Community School () is a secondary school located in Gort in south County Galway "Righteousness and Justice" , anthem = () , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Galway.svg , map_caption ...

Hartstown Community School Hartstown Community School is an Irish Secondary School located in Hartstown, Clonsilla. It serves the area of Hartstown, Huntstown and other localities in the Clonsilla Clonsilla () is an outer suburb of Dublin in Fingal, Ireland. Cl ...

* Heywood Community School *

Holy Child Community School Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence among believers. The property is often ascribed to objects (a ...

Holy Family Community School Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence among believers. The property is often ascribed to objects (a ...

John the Baptist Community School John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

Kildare Town Community School Kildare Town Community School is a school in County Kildare, Ireland. It was formed in September 2011 following the amalgamation of St. Josephs Academy, Presentation Secondary School and Kildare Vocational School. The new school is under the pat ...

* Killinarden Community School *

Kilrush Community School Kilrush () is a coastal town in County Clare, Ireland. It is also the name of a civil parish and an ecclesiastical parish in Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. It is located near the mouth of the River Shannon in the south-west of the county. ...

Kinsale Community School Kinsale Community School is based in the town of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. It caters for around 1550 students aged 12–18 with around 160 staff and the principal is currently Mr. Fergal McCarthy. History Kinsale Community School officially ...

Leixlip Community School Leixlip ( or ; , IPA: �lʲeːmʲənˠˈwɾˠad̪ˠaːnʲ is a town in north-east County Kildare, Ireland. Its location on the confluence of the River Liffey and the Rye Water has marked it as a frontier town historically: on the border betwee ...

* Loreto Community School *

Malahide Community School Malahide Community School (MCS; ga, Pobalscoil Íosa) is a co-educational secondary school located in Malahide, County Dublin "Action to match our speech" , image_map = Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Dublin.svg , map_alt ...

Mayfield Community School Mayfield may refer to: People * Mayfield (surname) Places Australia * Mayfield, New South Wales * Mayfield, New South Wales (Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council) * Mayfield, Tasmania Canada * Mayfield, Edmonton, a neighborhood in Alberta * Mayf ...

Millstreet Community School Millstreet () is a town in north County Cork, Ireland, with a population of 1,555 (as of 2016). Millstreet is within the civil parish of Drishane, and within a Poor Law Union also called Millstreet. The Millstreet Union encompasses the civil ...

Moate Community School Moate (; ) is a town in County Westmeath, Ireland. The name ''An Móta'' is derived from the term motte-and-bailey, as the Normans built an example of this type of fortification here. The earthwork is still visible behind the buildings on the ...

* Mountmellick Community School *

Mountrath Community School Mountrath Community School () is a secondary school in Mountrath, County Laois in Ireland. It is an amalgamation of three former secondary schools (namely the Bridgidine Convent, St Aengus Vocational School, and Patrician College) all of which ...

Moyne Community School Moyne may refer to: * Baron Moyne, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom * John Moyne, MP for Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom * Moyne Kelly (1901–1988), American politician from Texas * Moyne, County Tipperary, a civil parish in the b ...

* Old Bawn Community School *

Portmarnock Community School Portmarnock Community School ( ga, Pobalscoil Phortmearnóg) is a public secondary school situated in Portmarnock, County Dublin. It was built by the Department of Education in 1979, and was one of the first community schools built in Ireland. ...

Portumna Community School Portumna ( - meaning 'the landing place of the oak') is a market town in the south-east of County Galway, Ireland, on the border with and linked by a bridge to County Tipperary. The town is located to the west of the point where the River Shanno ...

* Ramsgrange Community School *

Roscommon Community School Roscommon (; ) is the county town and the largest town in County Roscommon in Ireland. It is roughly in the centre of Ireland, near the meeting of the N60, N61 and N63 roads. The name Roscommon is derived from Coman mac Faelchon who built ...

Rosmini Community School Rosmini may refer to: * Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797–1855), Italian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher * Dick Rosmini (1936–1995), American guitarist * Diego Rosmini (born 1927), Italian Mafia boss * Rosmini College Rosmini College is a ...

* Rosses Community School * Scoil Mhuire Community School *

Skibbereen Community School Skibbereen (; ) is a town in County Cork, Ireland. It is located in West Cork on the N71 national secondary road. The name "Skibbereen" (sometimes shortened to "Skibb") means "little boat harbour". The River Ilen runs through the town; it re ...

St Aidan's Community School ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy a ...

St Attracta's Community School ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy a ...

* St. Caimin's Community School *

St Ciaran's Community School ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy a ...

St Louis Community School ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy ...

St Marks Community School ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy ...

* St Peter's Community School *

St Wolstan's Community School St. Wolstan's Community School is an all-female community school, under the trusteeship of the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, the Holy Faith Sisters and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board situated in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ir ...

* St. Kilian's Community School *

St. Tiernan's Community School ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy ...

St. Brendan's Community School St Brendan's Community School is a secondary school located in the town of Birr, County Offaly in the midlands of Ireland. The school was opened in January 1980 following an amalgamation of the following schools that were in operation around th ...

* Tallaght Community School *

The Donahies Community School ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in ...

Tullow Community School Tullow (; , formerly ''Tulach Ó bhFéidhlim/ Tullowphelim'') is a market town in County Carlow, Ireland. It is located on the River Slaney where the N81 road intersects with the R725. , the population was 4,673. History There is a statue o ...

* Kenmare Community School

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{{reflist School types Secondary education in Ireland