Beara Community School
Castletownbere, Beara, Co Cork · P75 AH74 · Roll number 91387Q
Beara Community School is the only one of the post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Castletownbere. Every school in and around Castletownbere →
What stands out about Beara Community School
- A small post-primary school: 308 pupils, against a typical 585.
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (−6%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- 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 & Religious Sisters of Mercy; its ethos is inter-denominational.
- The only post-primary school in Castletownbere or within 3 km of it.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Beara Community School had 308 pupils in 2025/26, down from 328 in 2015/16 (−6%). Girls are 49% of them. Its roll rose in 4 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Beara 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 Beara 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 Beara 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 Beara Community School
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Beara 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.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Beara Community School has shrunk by 6% since 2019/20. All the schools around Castletownbere together changed by −1%.
Pupils since 2019/20
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; Department of Education enrolments 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary).
Living in Castletownbere
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the P75 Eircode area
Housing in Castletownbere →The median sale price rose from €235,000 in 2023 to €285,000 in 2025 (+21%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the P75 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Co. Cork
Cost of living in Castletownbere →New tenancies in Co. Cork averaged €1,542 a month in 2025, against €1,408 in 2024 (+10%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Castletownbere, P75 AH74
Questions about Beara Community School
Is Beara 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 Beara Community School have?
308 pupils in 2025/26. That is −6% since 2019/20.
Does Beara Community School teach through Irish?
No: Beara Community School teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Beara Community School?
Beara Community School has a inter-denominational ethos. Its patron is Cork ETB & Religious Sisters of Mercy.
How do pupils get a place at Beara 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.
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 Castletownbere; 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).