Bishopstown Community School
Westgate Road, Bishopstown, Cork · T12 CF79 · Roll number 91397T
Bishopstown Community School is one of 19 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Bishopstown. Every school in and around Bishopstown →
What stands out about Bishopstown Community School
- A small post-primary school: 306 pupils, against a typical 585.
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (+0%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- In DEIS. DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) gives schools serving disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and support; the Department decides which schools are in it.
- A community school: run by a board of the local Education and Training Board and the religious or other bodies that founded it.
- Its patron is Cork ETB & Bishop of Cork and Ross; its ethos is inter-denominational.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Bishopstown Community School had 306 pupils in 2025/26, against 259 in 2015/16 (+18%). Girls are 49% of them. Its largest roll was 339, in 2024/25. Its roll rose in 8 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Bishopstown Community School
Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing schools by them, so this school has no letter and nothing here ranks it. Its facts are the Department of Education’s; its inspection reports are linked below.
What the Department of Education does publish for Bishopstown Community School is on this page: its pupils each September since 2015/16, girls and boys, its patron and ethos, whether it teaches through Irish, whether it is in DEIS, and its inspection reports.
Newspapers print lists of how many of a school’s leavers go on to college. Those count destinations, not exam results, and depend on who a school takes in; we don’t use them.
Inspection reports on Bishopstown Community School
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate visits schools and publishes its reports. The reports describe what inspectors saw; they give no overall grade, and we don’t make one. Reports for this school on gov.ie ↗
Inspectors visit every kind of school. Whole-school evaluations look at teaching and learning, leadership and management; subject inspections look at one subject; follow-through inspections check whether earlier advice was taken. Each report is published on gov.ie with the school’s response.
Getting a place at Bishopstown Community School
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Bishopstown Community School directly, usually in the year before their child finishes sixth class; the school’s yearly admission notice gives the dates for applying and for its decisions.
A school with more applicants than places admits on the criteria in its admission policy, often brothers and sisters, the area it serves and, for post-primary schools, its feeder primaries. A family refused a place can appeal.
It is in DEIS, so it has extra support for pupils from disadvantaged areas.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Bishopstown Community School is about the size it was in 2019/20 (+0%). All the schools around Bishopstown together changed by +0%.
Pupils since 2019/20
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; Department of Education enrolments 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary).
Side by side with the nearest post-primary schools
2025/26The nearest schools of the same kind, as the crow flies: their pupils, ethos and language. No results: none are published.
Of the 6 nearest post-primary schools, 4 have more pupils than Bishopstown Community School. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +0%; 4 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bishopstown Community School | 306 | +0% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | |
| Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | 715 | +1% | Catholic | English | 0.6 km | |
| Mount Mercy College | 811 | +2% | Catholic | English | 0.9 km | |
| Terence Mac Swiney Community College | 302 | +81% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 2.7 km |
| Presentation Brothers College | 692 | −3% | Catholic | English | 3.2 km | |
| Presentation Secondary School | 190 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.3 km |
| St Aloysius School | 323 | +5% | Catholic | English | 3.3 km |
The other 78 post-primary schools in Co. Cork
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste Éamann Rís | 811 | +149% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.6 km |
| Coláiste Choilm | 1,357 | −0% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 3.8 km | |
| North Monastery Secondary School | 271 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.1 km |
| St Vincent's Secondary School | 283 | +39% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.1 km |
| Nano Nagle College | 161 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.2 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Mhuire | 690 | +20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 4.2 km |
| Coláiste Daibhéid | 151 | −28% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | ✓ | 4.2 km |
| Coláiste Chríost Rí | 502 | −13% | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 4.3 km | |
| St. Angela's College | 606 | +4% | Catholic | English | 4.4 km | |
| Christ King Girls' Secondary School | 700 | −10% | Catholic | English | 4.4 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 432 | +2% | Catholic | English | 4.5 km | |
| Christian Brothers College | 919 | +1% | Catholic | English | 4.6 km | |
| Cork Educate Together Secondary School | 403 | +54% | Multi-denominational | English | 5 km | |
| Ashton School | 539 | +2% | Church of Ireland | English | 5.2 km | |
| Ballincollig Community School | 987 | +20% | Inter-denominational | English | 5.3 km | |
| Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig | 254 | – | Catholic | English | 5.3 km | |
| St Patricks College | 218 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 5.6 km |
| Regina Mundi College | 564 | −0% | Catholic | English | 5.6 km | |
| Douglas Community School | 605 | +19% | Inter-denominational | English | 5.8 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire gan Smal | 1,124 | +40% | Catholic | English | 5.9 km | |
| St Aidan's Community College | 309 | −23% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 6 km |
| Mayfield Community School | 362 | +28% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 6.5 km |
| Ursuline College Blackrock | 352 | +45% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 7.7 km |
| Nagle Community College | 315 | +61% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 8.5 km |
| Colaiste An Phiarsaigh | 578 | +6% | Catholic | All in Irish | 9.5 km | |
| St Francis Capuchin College | 730 | −5% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin | 302 | +156% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 11 km | |
| Glanmire Community College | 1,141 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | 11 km | |
| Coláiste an Chroí Naofa | 461 | −15% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Carrigaline Community School | 1,072 | −2% | Inter-denominational | English | 12 km | |
| St Peter's Community School | 354 | −3% | Inter-denominational | English | 13 km | |
| Edmund Rice College | 580 | +73% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Coláiste Muire | 709 | +6% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Carrignafoy Community College | 322 | +0% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 17 km |
| Colaiste Muire | 523 | +16% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Carrigtwohill Post Primary | 912 | +237% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| St Aloysius College | 765 | −1% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| Coachford College | 848 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 19 km | |
| Kinsale Community School | 1,450 | +31% | Inter-denominational | English | 20 km | |
| St. Brogan's College | 905 | +50% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 21 km |
| Coláiste na Toirbhirte | 456 | −8% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh | 399 | +1% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Bandon Grammar School | 712 | +5% | Church of Ireland | English | 23 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 957 | +13% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| St Mary's High School | 762 | +6% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Midleton College | 498 | +15% | Church of Ireland | English | 25 km | |
| St Colman's Community College | 1,171 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 25 km |
| Davis College | 1,033 | +26% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 28 km |
| Patrician Academy | 568 | +1% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| St Mary's Secondary School | 749 | +6% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| St Mary'S Secondary School | 431 | +33% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| McEgan College | 289 | +60% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| De La Salle College | 409 | +11% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Coláiste an Chraoibhín | 918 | +6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 32 km |
| Coláiste Cholmáin | 716 | +39% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Loreto Secondary School | 729 | +18% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Sacred Heart Secondary School | 568 | +7% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Nagle Rice Secondary School | 260 | +39% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Clonakilty Community College | 696 | +17% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 38 km | |
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire | 589 | +34% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| Coláiste Treasa | 647 | +18% | Multi-denominational | English | 42 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 271 | −7% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Millstreet Community School | 359 | +9% | Inter-denominational | English | 42 km | |
| Colaiste Ghobnatan | 212 | −8% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 44 km | |
| Maria Immaculata Community College | 642 | +28% | Inter-denominational | English | 45 km | |
| Pobalscoil na Tríonóide | 1,086 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 45 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 410 | +27% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Presentation Secondary School | 342 | +9% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Coláiste Fionnchua | 449 | +63% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 46 km |
| Boherbue Comprehensive School | 551 | +70% | Inter-denominational | English | 48 km | |
| Mount St Michael | 403 | +30% | Catholic | English | 48 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 109 | +11% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 49 km | |
| Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí | 313 | +11% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| St. Mary's Secondary School | 322 | +10% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| Skibbereen Community School | 956 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 62 km | |
| Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí | 752 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | 68 km | |
| Schull Community College | 359 | −7% | Inter-denominational | English | 81 km | |
| Beara Community School | 308 | −6% | Inter-denominational | English | 99 km |
Living in Bishopstown
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the T12 Eircode area
Housing in Bishopstown →The median sale price rose from €355,000 in 2023 to €412,200 in 2025 (+16%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the T12 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Bishopstown
Cost of living in Bishopstown →New tenancies in Bishopstown averaged €2,147 a month in 2025, against €1,996 in 2024 (+8%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Bishopstown, T12 CF79
Post-primary schools near Bishopstown Community School
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Bishopstown Community School
Is Bishopstown Community School a good school?
We don’t grade it: Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them. Its inspection reports on gov.ie, a visit and a talk with the principal will tell you more than any table could.
How many pupils does Bishopstown Community School have?
306 pupils in 2025/26. That is +0% since 2019/20.
Does Bishopstown Community School teach through Irish?
No: Bishopstown Community School teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Bishopstown Community School?
Bishopstown Community School has a inter-denominational ethos. Its patron is Cork ETB & Bishop of Cork and Ross.
How do pupils get a place at Bishopstown Community School?
Apply to the school directly. It publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice with its dates; if more children apply than it has places, it admits on the criteria in its policy.
Which schools of the same kind are near Bishopstown Community School?
The nearest are Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh (0.6 km), Mount Mercy College (0.9 km) and Terence Mac Swiney Community College (2.7 km).
Sources: Department of Education, school lists 2025/26 (preliminary) and enrolments since 2015/16, CC BY 4.0 · inspection reports on gov.ie, linked by roll number. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Facts from the Department of Education’s school lists. Listed with Bishopstown; nothing here rates the school.
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).