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Schull Community College

Post-primary · ETBInter-denominational

Colla Road, Schull · P81 RH21 · Roll number 71102I

Schull Community College is the only one of the post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Schull. Every school in and around Schull →

Pupils
359
September, 2025/26
192 girls, 167 boys
Since 2019/20
−7%
from 386 pupils
Ireland: +5%
Ethos
Inter-denominational
Patron: Cork ETB
Language
English
outside the Gaeltacht
Results
Not published
none school by school (Education Act 1998, s.53)
The gist

What stands out about Schull Community College

  • A small post-primary school: 359 pupils, against a typical 585.
  • About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (−7%).
  • Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
  • An ETB school: run by the county’s Education and Training Board.
  • Its patron is the Cork ETB; its ethos is inter-denominational.
  • The only post-primary school in Schull or within 3 km of it.

Pupils over time

2015/16 to 2025/26

Schull Community College had 359 pupils in 2025/26, down from 438 in 2015/16 (−18%). Girls are 53% of them. Its roll rose in 2 of the 10 years.

02004006002015/162018/192021/222025/26PupilsGirls

Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.

No letter

No letter for Schull Community College

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 Schull Community College 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.

Inspections

Inspection reports on Schull Community College

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 in

Getting a place at Schull Community College

Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.

Families apply to Schull Community College 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.

Pupils
359
September, 2025/26
Since 2019/20
−7%
from 386 pupils

No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Schull Community College has shrunk by 7% since 2019/20. All the schools around Schull together changed by −4%.

Pupils since 2019/20

Schull−7%
The post-primary schools around Schull−7%
All Irish post-primary schools+15%

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

2025/26

The nearest schools of the same kind, as the crow flies: their pupils, ethos and language. No results: none are published.

Each of the 2 nearest post-primary schools has more pupils than Schull Community College. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −7%; 2 of the 2 grew faster.

Schull359
Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí752
Skibbereen956
SchoolPupilsSince 2019/20EthosLanguageDEISAway
Schull Community College359−7%Inter-denominationalEnglish
Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí752+11%Inter-denominationalSome subjects in Irish18 km
Skibbereen Community School956+10%Inter-denominationalEnglish20 km
The other 82 post-primary schools in Co. Cork
SchoolPupilsSince 2019/20EthosLanguageDEISAway
Beara Community School308−6%Inter-denominationalEnglish29 km
Mount St Michael403+30%CatholicEnglish37 km
Maria Immaculata Community College642+28%Inter-denominationalEnglish37 km
Scoil Mhuire109+11%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish42 km
Clonakilty Community College696+17%Inter-denominationalIrish stream47 km
Sacred Heart Secondary School568+7%CatholicEnglish47 km
Colaiste Ghobnatan212−8%Inter-denominationalAll in Irish54 km
De La Salle College409+11%CatholicEnglish59 km
McEgan College289+60%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓59 km
St Mary'S Secondary School431+33%CatholicEnglish59 km
Bandon Grammar School712+5%Church of IrelandEnglish60 km
Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh399+1%CatholicEnglish61 km
Coláiste na Toirbhirte456−8%CatholicEnglish61 km
St. Brogan's College905+50%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓61 km
Coachford College848+10%Inter-denominationalEnglish68 km
Millstreet Community School359+9%Inter-denominationalEnglish68 km
Kinsale Community School1,450+31%Inter-denominationalEnglish73 km
Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig254–CatholicEnglish77 km
Ballincollig Community School987+20%Inter-denominationalEnglish77 km
Coláiste Choilm1,357−0%Inter-denominationalIrish stream78 km
Boherbue Comprehensive School551+70%Inter-denominationalEnglish78 km
Bishopstown Community School306+0%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓81 km
Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh715+1%CatholicEnglish81 km
Scoil Mhuire gan Smal1,124+40%CatholicEnglish82 km
Mount Mercy College811+2%CatholicEnglish82 km
Terence Mac Swiney Community College302+81%Inter-denominationalSome subjects in Irish✓83 km
Presentation Secondary School190−18%CatholicEnglish✓84 km
Presentation Brothers College692−3%CatholicEnglish84 km
St Aloysius School323+5%CatholicEnglish84 km
Coláiste Éamann Rís811+149%CatholicEnglish✓84 km
Christ King Girls' Secondary School700−10%CatholicEnglish85 km
Nano Nagle College161−18%CatholicEnglish✓85 km
Scoil Mhuire271−7%CatholicEnglish85 km
Coláiste Chríost Rí502−13%CatholicSome subjects in Irish85 km
North Monastery Secondary School271−22%CatholicEnglish✓85 km
Coláiste Daibhéid151−28%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish✓85 km
St Vincent's Secondary School283+39%CatholicEnglish✓85 km
Gaelcholáiste Mhuire690+20%CatholicAll in Irish✓85 km
Coláiste Treasa647+18%Multi-denominationalEnglish85 km
St. Angela's College606+4%CatholicEnglish85 km
Scoil Mhuire432+2%CatholicEnglish85 km
Christian Brothers College919+1%CatholicEnglish86 km
Douglas Community School605+19%Inter-denominationalEnglish86 km
Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin302+156%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish86 km
Regina Mundi College564−0%CatholicEnglish86 km
Ashton School539+2%Church of IrelandEnglish86 km
Cork Educate Together Secondary School403+54%Multi-denominationalEnglish86 km
Edmund Rice College580+73%CatholicEnglish86 km
Carrigaline Community School1,072−2%Inter-denominationalEnglish86 km
St Patricks College218−14%CatholicEnglish✓87 km
St Aidan's Community College309−23%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓87 km
Mayfield Community School362+28%Inter-denominationalSome subjects in Irish✓87 km
Ursuline College Blackrock352+45%CatholicEnglish✓88 km
Nagle Community College315+61%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓89 km
St Francis Capuchin College730−5%CatholicEnglish89 km
Coláiste an Chroí Naofa461−15%CatholicEnglish90 km
Colaiste An Phiarsaigh578+6%CatholicAll in Irish90 km
Davis College1,033+26%Multi-denominationalSome subjects in Irish✓91 km
St Peter's Community School354−3%Inter-denominationalEnglish92 km
Colaiste Muire523+16%CatholicEnglish92 km
Glanmire Community College1,141+3%Inter-denominationalEnglish92 km
Patrician Academy568+1%CatholicEnglish92 km
St Mary's Secondary School749+6%CatholicEnglish93 km
Coláiste Muire709+6%CatholicEnglish94 km
Carrignafoy Community College322+0%Multi-denominationalSome subjects in Irish✓94 km
Carrigtwohill Post Primary912+237%CatholicEnglish99 km
St Aloysius College765−1%CatholicEnglish99 km
Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire589+34%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓99 km
Nagle Rice Secondary School260+39%CatholicEnglish102 km
Christian Brothers Secondary School957+13%CatholicEnglish104 km
St Mary's High School762+6%CatholicEnglish104 km
St Colman's Community College1,171+51%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓104 km
Midleton College498+15%Church of IrelandEnglish104 km
St. Mary's Secondary School322+10%CatholicEnglish110 km
Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí313+11%CatholicEnglish110 km
Coláiste an Chraoibhín918+6%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓110 km
Coláiste Cholmáin716+39%CatholicEnglish111 km
Loreto Secondary School729+18%CatholicEnglish111 km
Christian Brothers Secondary School410+27%CatholicEnglish120 km
Presentation Secondary School342+9%CatholicEnglish121 km
Coláiste Fionnchua449+63%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓121 km
Pobalscoil na Tríonóide1,086+11%Inter-denominationalIrish stream125 km
Living nearby

Living in Schull

The town’s figures, not this street’s.

Median sale price
€406,800
98 sales, 2023–25, Property Price Register
Average rent
€1,542
a month, new tenancies in 2025 across Co. Cork

Homes in the P81 Eircode area

Housing in Schull →

The median sale price rose from €310,000 in 2023 to €359,200 in 2025 (+16%).

2023€310,000
2024€320,000
2025€359,200

New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025

New homes€444,900
Second-hand homes€326,400

Property Price Register sales in the P81 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.

Renting in Co. Cork

Cost of living in Schull →

New tenancies in Co. Cork averaged €1,542 a month in 2025, against €1,408 in 2024 (+10%).

2024€1,408
2025€1,542

Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.

Schull, P81 RH21

Nearby

Post-primary schools near Schull Community College

Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.

Questions about Schull Community College

Is Schull Community College 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 Schull Community College have?

359 pupils in 2025/26. That is −7% since 2019/20.

Does Schull Community College teach through Irish?

No: Schull Community College teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.

Who runs Schull Community College?

Schull Community College has a inter-denominational ethos. Its patron is Cork ETB.

How do pupils get a place at Schull Community College?

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 Schull Community College?

The nearest are Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí (18 km) and Skibbereen Community School (20 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 Schull; 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).