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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 * Ashbourne Community School * Athboy Community School * Bailieborough Community School * Ballinamore Community School * 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 * Ballyhaunis Community School * Beara Community School * Beaufort Community School * Bishopstown Community School * Blackwater Community School * Blakestown Community School * Boyne Community School * 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' schoo ...

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 regiona ...

Cashel Community School Cashel Community School is secondary school in Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north- ...

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 c ...

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 re ...

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 (disambigua ...

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 * He ...

* 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 *

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. Clons ...

* Heywood Community School * Holy Child Community School * Holy Family Community School * John the Baptist Community School * Kildare Town Community School * Killinarden Community School * Kilrush Community School * Kinsale Community School * Leixlip Community School * Loreto Community School *

Malahide Community School Malahide Community School (MCS; ga, Pobalscoil Íosa) is a co-educational secondary school located in Malahide, County Dublin, Ireland. It accepts pupils of all religious denominations. The school grew from 512 students in 1976 to 1200 students ...

* Mayfield Community School * Millstreet Community School * Moate Community School * Mountmellick Community School * Mountrath Community School * Moyne Community School * Old Bawn Community School * Portmarnock Community School * Portumna Community School * Ramsgrange Community School * Roscommon Community School * Rosmini Community School * Rosses Community School * Scoil Mhuire Community School * Skibbereen Community School *

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 an ...

* St Attracta's Community School * St. Caimin's Community School * St Ciaran's Community School * St Louis Community School * St Marks Community School * St Peter's Community School * St Wolstan's Community School * St. Kilian's Community School * St. Tiernan's Community School *

St. Brendan's Community School St Brendan's Community School is a secondary school located in the town of Birr, County Offaly Birr (; ga, Biorra, meaning "plain of water") is a town in County Offaly, Ireland. Between 1620 and 1899 it was called Parsonstown, after the ...

* Tallaght Community School * The Donahies Community School * Tullow Community School * Kenmare Community School

References

{{reflist School types Secondary education in Ireland