St Marks Community School

What St Marks Community School does

St Mark's Community School is a state-funded, co-educational and multi-denominational secondary school established in 1977 in Tallaght, Dublin 24, Ireland. It serves over 850 students drawn from the local Tallaght area, with the student body speaking more than 50 languages and the school holding DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) designation acknowledging its disadvantaged-cohort support role. The school's product is a standard Irish secondary-education pathway: a three-year Junior Cycle, an optional Transition Year, a two-year Leaving Certificate, and the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme, supplemented by Guidance counselling, supervised after-school study, a free school meals and breakfast programme, and a free textbook scheme for junior and senior cycle students.

The school runs an extensive co-curricular and student-leadership portfolio including Gaelic games and other sports, a Student Council, Restorative Practice Ambassadors, an Interfaith Team, an R.I.S.E. (Resilience, Inclusion, Support, Empowerment) wellbeing group, an Oak Team focused on culture of care, a Cinnirí senior mentor scheme, a DEIS Student Committee, and two student-media products — the Beyond the Bell podcast and the St. Mark's Messenger magazine. Its technology layer is built entirely on third-party platforms: Google Classroom for learning management and assignment delivery, the Tyro app for parent/guardian communication (attendance, reports, timetable, messaging, payments), and video-conferencing for remote lessons. The school has no proprietary software, no published APIs, and no AI/ML capability of its own.

Commercially, the school is not a revenue-generating enterprise. Core secondary education is provided free at the point of delivery through Irish government capitation and DEIS grants; teaching staff are payroll-funded by the Department of Education. Ancillary fee-bearing services are limited to the Supervised Study programme (Monday–Thursday, 3:45–5:45) and optional uniform purchases via Schoolwear House. The institution is governed by a Board of Management, led by Principal Ian Boran, and its scale recently expanded with a new building comprising five additional classrooms, resource rooms and staff/student toilets opened in August 2026.

Name

St Marks Community School

Legal name

St. Marks Community School

Website

https://stmarkscs.ie

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

St Mark's Community School is an Irish state-funded, co-educational, multi-denominational secondary school in Tallaght, Dublin 24, founded 1977, serving over 850 local students through Junior Cycle, Transition Year, Leaving Certificate and LCA programmes, with extensive student-leadership, wellbeing and student-media activities and DEIS designation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Secondary Education Services

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Middle Schools (EDAJAAAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Special Education, Disability Support & Inclusive Education Nonprofits (BPAGADAH), Transition Services (Secondary to Postsecondary/Employment, Life Skills) (EDAJAKAG), Title I & Compensatory Education Programs (EDAJAGAJ)

Keywords

• Secondary education
• Junior cycle programme
• Leaving certificate
• Transition year
• Student wellbeing programmes

Headquarters

HQ city

Tallaght

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

St. Mark's Community School is a state-funded co-educational and multi-denominational secondary school in Tallaght, Dublin, delivering the full Irish secondary curriculum from Junior Cycle through Leaving Certificate, including an optional Transition Year and the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme. The school supplements academic instruction with supervised study, school meals, guidance counselling, sports, and student-led leadership, wellbeing, cultural, and media programmes. Digital learning is supported through Google Classroom and the Tyro parent communication app.

Product overview

St Mark's Community School is a co-educational and multi-denominational secondary school established in 1977 in Tallaght, Dublin 24, serving over 850 students. The school offers a comprehensive educational programme consisting of the Junior Cycle (3 years), optional Transition Year, Leaving Certificate, and Leaving Certificate Applied Programme. The school provides extensive co-curricular activities including sports programmes, student leadership initiatives (Cinnirí, Student Council, Restorative Practice Ambassadors), wellbeing programmes (R.I.S.E. Team, Oak Team), cultural programmes (Interfaith Team), and student media (Beyond the Bell Podcast, St. Mark's Messenger Magazine). Digital learning is supported through Google Classroom and the Tyro parent communication app. The school has been recognised as a Restorative Community and participates in the DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) programme.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Junior Cycle Programme

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Old Bawn Community School: State-funded co-educational community secondary school in the Tallaght/Dublin 24 area, serving a broadly comparable demographic with Junior Cycle, Transition Year and Leaving Certificate programmes.
• St. Mac Dara's Community College: Co-educational community college in south Dublin offering full secondary education under the same community-school governance model.
• Coláiste de hÍde: Co-educational secondary school in Tallaght providing Junior and Senior Cycle programmes to a comparable DEIS-eligible student population.
• Tallaght Community School: Community secondary school located in Tallaght, Dublin 24, offering similar state-funded programmes to the same local catchment.
• Mount Seskin Community College: Community college in the Tallaght catchment offering secondary education to a similar local demographic under the same Irish community-school governance model.
• Firhouse Community College: Community college serving the south Dublin/Tallaght-adjacent area with comparable Junior Cycle, Transition Year and Leaving Certificate provision.
• Kingswood Community College: Co-educational community college in the wider Dublin 24 area offering Junior and Senior Cycle education to a demographically similar intake.

Others

• VSware: Leading Irish school management information system used by many second-level schools for attendance, timetabling and parent communications — directly adjacent to the Tyro-style workflow St. Mark's operates.
• Aladdin Schools: Parent communication and school administration platform widely used by Irish primary and second-level schools; comparable in function to the Tyro app that St. Mark's deploys.

Broad incumbents

• Educate Together: National multi-denominational school patron operating primary and second-level schools across Ireland with an inclusive ethos that directly overlaps with St. Mark's approach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/stmarkscs1977
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/st-marks-community-school
• Instagraminstagram.com/stmarkscstallaght/?hl=en

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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