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Blakestown Community School

Post-primary · Community schoolInter-denominationalDEIS

Sheepmoor Avenue, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 · D15 F978 · Roll number 91316Q

Blakestown Community School is one of 24 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Blanchardstown. Every school in and around Blanchardstown →

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Pupils
563
September, 2025/26
298 girls, 265 boys
Since 2019/20
+31%
from 430 pupils
Ireland: +5%
Ethos
Inter-denominational
Patron: Dublin & Dún Laoghaire ETB & Sisters of St Louis
Language
English
outside the Gaeltacht
Results
Not published
none school by school (Education Act 1998, s.53)
The gist

What stands out about Blakestown Community School

  • 563 pupils, near the middle for post-primary schools in Ireland (the median is 585).
  • Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
  • Growing: 563 pupils, 31% more than the 430 of 2019/20.
  • 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 Dublin & Dún Laoghaire ETB & Sisters of St Louis; its ethos is inter-denominational.

Pupils over time

2015/16 to 2025/26

Blakestown Community School had 563 pupils in 2025/26, against 530 in 2015/16 (+6%). Girls are 53% of them. Its roll rose in 5 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 Blakestown 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 Blakestown 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.

Inspections

Inspection reports on Blakestown 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 in

Getting a place at Blakestown Community School

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

Families apply to Blakestown 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.

Pupils
563
September, 2025/26
Since 2019/20
+31%
from 430 pupils

No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Blakestown Community School has grown by 31% since 2019/20. All the schools around Blanchardstown together changed by +1%.

Pupils since 2019/20

Blakestown+31%
The post-primary schools around Blanchardstown+17%
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.

Of the 6 nearest post-primary schools, 5 have more pupils than Blakestown Community School. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +31%; 0 of the 6 grew faster.

Blakestown563
Hartstown1,120
Scoil Phobail Chuil Mhin1,014
Rath Dara323
Coláiste Pobail Setanta1,079
Le Cheile944
Luttrellstown1,027
SchoolPupilsSince 2019/20EthosLanguageDEISAway
Blakestown Community School563+31%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓
Hartstown Community School1,120−1%Inter-denominationalEnglish0.8 km
Scoil Phobail Chuil Mhin1,014−1%Inter-denominationalEnglish1 km
Rath Dara Community College323+28%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓1.7 km
Coláiste Pobail Setanta1,079+2%Multi-denominationalEnglish2.1 km
Le Cheile Secondary School944+26%CatholicEnglish2.2 km
Luttrellstown Community College1,027+15%Multi-denominationalEnglish2.3 km
The other 177 post-primary schools in Co. Dublin
SchoolPupilsSince 2019/20EthosLanguageDEISAway
Castleknock Community College1,318+13%Multi-denominationalEnglish2.8 km
Hansfield ETSS867+34%Multi-denominationalEnglish2.9 km
Eriu Community College193–Multi-denominationalEnglish2.9 km
Castleknock College771+10%CatholicEnglish3.8 km
Edmund Rice College912+576%CatholicEnglish4.2 km
The Kings Hospital732+3%Church of IrelandEnglish4.3 km
Coláiste Phádraig CBS745+38%CatholicEnglish4.8 km
St. Kevin's Community College525+41%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓4.8 km
St Joseph's College934+6%CatholicEnglish4.9 km
Mount Sackville Secondary School636−3%CatholicEnglish5.1 km
New Cross College417+110%CatholicEnglish✓5.4 km
Phobailscoil Iosolde764−0%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓5.6 km
Coláiste Cois Life592−27%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish5.6 km
Collinstown Park Community College630+11%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓6.1 km
Lucan Community College966+5%Multi-denominationalEnglish6.2 km
Coláiste Eoin257+43%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓6.3 km
St. Seton's Secondary School741–OtherEnglish✓6.6 km
Kylemore College479+22%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓6.6 km
Kishoge Community College937+12%Multi-denominationalEnglish6.8 km
Griffeen Community College576+317%Multi-denominationalEnglish6.8 km
St Michaels Secondary School646+4%CatholicEnglish✓6.8 km
St Dominics College790−1%CatholicEnglish6.9 km
St Declan's College651+0%CatholicEnglish7.4 km
Coláiste Mhuire272−4%CatholicAll in Irish✓7.5 km
Adamstown Community College981+8%Multi-denominationalEnglish7.7 km
Beneavin De La Salle College585+15%CatholicEnglish✓7.8 km
Cabra Community College264+102%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓7.8 km
Coláiste Chilliain400−4%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish8 km
Deansrath Community College425+43%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓8.1 km
Moyle Park College763+3%CatholicEnglish8.4 km
St Kevins College503−6%CatholicEnglish✓8.4 km
Mercy Secondary School349+124%CatholicEnglish✓8.5 km
Coláiste Bríde993+4%CatholicEnglish8.8 km
St Mary's Secondary School830+2%CatholicEnglish✓9 km
St Vincents C.B.S. Glasnevin408+13%CatholicEnglish✓9.1 km
Our Lady Of Mercy Secondary School289−6%CatholicEnglish✓9.1 km
Meanscoil Iognáid Rís521−10%CatholicEnglish✓9.2 km
Trinity Comprehensive School564+15%CatholicEnglish✓9.3 km
St Josephs Secondary School283+48%CatholicEnglish✓9.4 km
Assumption Secondary School270+8%CatholicEnglish✓9.5 km
Scoil Chaitriona523+11%CatholicAll in Irish✓9.7 km
C.B.S. James Street251+65%CatholicEnglish✓9.8 km
St Pauls C.B.S.244+15%CatholicEnglish✓9.9 km
St. Aidan's C.B.S.725+1%CatholicEnglish10 km
Kingswood Community College1,006+93%Multi-denominationalEnglish10 km
Loreto College320−20%CatholicEnglish✓10 km
Mount Carmel Secondary School386−4%CatholicEnglish✓10 km
Belvedere College S.J1,011+1%CatholicEnglish10 km
Clonturk College968+182%Multi-denominationalEnglish10 km
Dominican College799+7%CatholicEnglish11 km
Clogher Road Community College297+46%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓11 km
Presentation College262+55%CatholicEnglish✓11 km
Rosmini Community School139+16%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓11 km
Rosary College250+35%CatholicEnglish✓11 km
St Patricks Cathedral Grammar School302+39%Church of IrelandEnglish11 km
Larkin Community College403+3%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓11 km
Greenhills College186+36%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓11 km
Ellenfield Community College150+3%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓11 km
St Pauls Secondary School466+4%CatholicEnglish✓11 km
O'Connell School222+8%CatholicEnglish✓11 km
Coláiste de hÍde266−11%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish✓11 km
Christian Brothers, Synge St.256−3%CatholicEnglish✓11 km
Maryfield College527−11%CatholicEnglish11 km
Our Lady Of Mercy College407+6%CatholicEnglish✓11 km
Harolds Cross Educate Together Secondary School437–Multi-denominationalEnglish12 km
St Marks Community School931+12%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓12 km
Loreto College588+5%CatholicEnglish12 km
St Josephs C.B.S.310+20%CatholicEnglish✓12 km
C.B.S. Westland Row205+52%CatholicEnglish✓12 km
St. Mary's College C.S.Sp., Rathmines500+17%CatholicEnglish12 km
Templeogue College637−6%CatholicEnglish12 km
Catholic University School544+7%CatholicEnglish12 km
Marino College297+21%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓12 km
Árdscoil Rís563+4%CatholicEnglish12 km
Tallaght Community School840+10%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓12 km
St Mac Dara's Community College915+7%Inter-denominationalEnglish12 km
St Louis High School690+2%CatholicEnglish12 km
St Aidan's Community School561+28%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓12 km
Presentation Community College443+26%CatholicEnglish12 km
Loreto College655+4%CatholicEnglish12 km
Mount Temple Comprehensive School903+2%Church of IrelandEnglish12 km
Terenure College800+16%CatholicEnglish12 km
St. David's College550+8%CatholicEnglish✓12 km
Coolock Community College205+32%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓13 km
Coláiste pobail Fóla758–Multi-denominationalEnglish13 km
Old Bawn Community School1,024+12%Inter-denominationalEnglish13 km
Our Ladys School799+5%CatholicEnglish13 km
Stratford College189+28%JewishEnglish13 km
Swords Community College952+473%Multi-denominationalEnglish13 km
Mount Seskin Community College350+8%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓13 km
Sandford Park School Ltd437+8%Inter-denominationalEnglish13 km
St Conleths College339+19%CatholicEnglish13 km
The High School811+11%Church of IrelandEnglish13 km
Ringsend College191+1%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓13 km
Chanel College451−21%CatholicEnglish✓13 km
Killinarden Community School471−3%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓13 km
Coláiste Choilm421−23%CatholicEnglish13 km
St Marys Secondary School320+0%CatholicEnglish✓13 km
Gonzaga College576+4%CatholicEnglish13 km
Muckross Park College709+0%CatholicEnglish14 km
Mercy College Coolock402−6%CatholicEnglish✓14 km
Marian College319−8%CatholicEnglish✓14 km
Firhouse Community College825+2%Inter-denominationalEnglish14 km
Alexandra College664+13%Church of IrelandEnglish14 km
Loreto High School625−5%CatholicEnglish14 km
Sancta Maria College577+5%CatholicEnglish14 km
Coláiste Éanna618+3%CatholicEnglish14 km
St Finians Community College671+4%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓14 km
Gaelcholáiste an Phiarsaigh296+13%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish14 km
St Pauls College650+10%CatholicEnglish14 km
Holy Family Community School998+4%Inter-denominationalEnglish14 km
Holy Faith Secondary School647+0%CatholicEnglish14 km
Fingal Community College864+1%Inter-denominationalEnglish14 km
St. Colmcille's Community School727−0%Inter-denominationalEnglish14 km
De La Salle College463+45%CatholicEnglish14 km
Sandymount Park Educate Together Secondary School437+460%Multi-denominationalEnglish14 km
The Teresian School230+16%CatholicEnglish15 km
Malahide & Portmarnock Secondary School696+939%Multi-denominationalEnglish15 km
St Michaels College731+10%CatholicEnglish15 km
Firhouse Educate Together Secondary School411+407%Multi-denominationalEnglish15 km
The Donahies Community School488+4%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓15 km
Manor House School652−5%CatholicEnglish15 km
Our Lady's Grove Secondary School295−3%CatholicEnglish15 km
St Kilian's Deutsche Schule475+18%Inter-denominationalEnglish15 km
Belmayne Educate Together Secondary School595+1,883%Multi-denominationalEnglish15 km
Árdscoil La Salle289+74%CatholicEnglish✓16 km
Ballinteer Community School415+2%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓16 km
Goatstown Educate Together Secondary School366–Multi-denominationalEnglish16 km
Grange Community College553+98%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓16 km
Rockbrook Park School186+14%CatholicEnglish16 km
Gaelcholáiste Reachrann453+2%Inter-denominationalAll in Irish16 km
Mount Anville Secondary School726+4%CatholicEnglish17 km
St Andrews College1,011+2%PresbyterianEnglish17 km
St. Tiernan's Community School368+7%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓17 km
Coláiste Eoin517+4%CatholicAll in Irish17 km
Coláiste Íosagáin488+1%CatholicAll in Irish17 km
Wesley College942+2%MethodistEnglish17 km
St Columba's College357+7%Church of IrelandEnglish17 km
Willow Park School206−0%CatholicEnglish17 km
Malahide Community School1,250+3%Inter-denominationalEnglish17 km
St Benildus College949+18%CatholicEnglish17 km
Blackrock College1,041+2%CatholicEnglish17 km
Oatlands College623+14%CatholicEnglish18 km
Dominican College521+19%CatholicEnglish18 km
Portmarnock Community School955+3%Inter-denominationalEnglish18 km
Pobalscoil Neasáin831+7%Inter-denominationalEnglish18 km
St Raphaela's Secondary School637+12%CatholicEnglish18 km
St Marys Secondary School230−16%CatholicEnglish18 km
St. Fintan's High School714+1%CatholicEnglish19 km
Rosemont School307+69%CatholicEnglish19 km
Newpark Comprehensive School884+3%Church of IrelandEnglish19 km
Rockford Manor Secondary School273−1%CatholicEnglish20 km
Donabate Community College799+5%Multi-denominationalEnglish20 km
Santa Sabina Dominican College754+13%CatholicEnglish20 km
Loreto College Foxrock660+27%CatholicEnglish20 km
Stepaside Educate Together Secondary School741+246%Multi-denominationalEnglish20 km
Christian Brothers College549+7%CatholicEnglish21 km
Sutton Park School503+36%Church of IrelandEnglish21 km
Clonkeen College635+10%CatholicEnglish22 km
Lusk Community College1,104+61%Multi-denominationalEnglish22 km
Holy Child Community School275+12%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓22 km
Rathdown School364+38%Church of IrelandEnglish23 km
Cabinteely Community School512+12%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓23 km
St Joseph Of Cluny Secondary School270+7%CatholicEnglish23 km
Blackrock Educate Together Secondary School236–Multi-denominationalEnglish24 km
St Laurence College302+17%CatholicEnglish✓24 km
Loreto Abbey Secondary School757+16%CatholicEnglish24 km
St Joseph's Secondary School945+19%CatholicEnglish✓25 km
Holy Child Killiney382+9%CatholicEnglish25 km
John Scottus Secondary School211+77%Inter-denominationalEnglish27 km
Bremore Educate Together Secondary School824+124%Multi-denominationalEnglish27 km
Coláiste Ghlór na Mara520+63%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish27 km
Ardgillan Community College1,014+6%Multi-denominationalEnglish27 km
Woodbrook College623+51%CatholicEnglish✓27 km
Balbriggan Community College686+33%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓28 km
Skerries Community College1,025+5%Inter-denominationalEnglish28 km
Loreto Secondary School1,220−5%CatholicEnglish28 km
Living nearby

Living in Blanchardstown

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

Median sale price
€333,000
481 sales, 2023–25, Property Price Register
Average rent
€1,960
a month, new tenancies in 2025

Homes in the D15 Eircode area

Housing in Blanchardstown →

The median sale price rose from €368,900 in 2023 to €439,900 in 2025 (+19%).

2023€368,900
2024€428,300
2025€439,900

New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025

New homes€480,400
Second-hand homes€380,100

Property Price Register sales in the D15 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.

Renting in Blanchardstown

Cost of living in Blanchardstown →

New tenancies in Blanchardstown averaged €1,960 a month in 2025, against €1,830 in 2024 (+7%).

2024€1,830
2025€1,960

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

Location

Directions ↗

Blanchardstown, D15 F978

Nearby

Post-primary schools near Blakestown Community School

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

Hartstown Community School
Post-primary · Community school · Inter-denominational
1,120 pupils−1% since 2019/200.8 km
Scoil Phobail Chuil Mhin
Post-primary · Community school · Inter-denominational
1,014 pupils−1% since 2019/201 km
Rath Dara Community College
Post-primary · ETB · Inter-denominational
DEIS
323 pupils+28% since 2019/201.7 km
Coláiste Pobail Setanta
Post-primary · ETB · Multi-denominational
1,079 pupils+2% since 2019/202.1 km
Le Cheile Secondary School
Post-primary · Voluntary secondary · Catholic
944 pupils+26% since 2019/202.2 km
Luttrellstown Community College
Post-primary · ETB · Multi-denominational
1,027 pupils+15% since 2019/202.3 km
Official recordInspection reports (gov.ie) ↗Department of Education school lists ↗Roll number 91316Q

Questions about Blakestown Community School

Is Blakestown 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 Blakestown Community School have?

563 pupils in 2025/26. That is +31% since 2019/20.

Does Blakestown Community School teach through Irish?

No: Blakestown Community School teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.

Who runs Blakestown Community School?

Blakestown Community School has a inter-denominational ethos. Its patron is Dublin & Dún Laoghaire ETB & Sisters of St Louis.

How do pupils get a place at Blakestown 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 Blakestown Community School?

The nearest are Hartstown Community School (0.8 km), Scoil Phobail Chuil Mhin (1 km) and Rath Dara Community College (1.7 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 Blanchardstown; 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).