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Cork and Limerick secondary schools top best 100 list

Lúnasa 31, 2015

A non fee-paying, all-girls secondary school has been ranked number one in Ireland.

It is the second year at the top for Coláiste Laurel Hill in Limerick.

Cork city’s all-boys Presentation Brothers College and all-girls Scoil Mhuire were named numbers 2 and 3 respectively.

Coláiste Na Coiribe in Galway was named Ireland’s best mixed school.

Kate Butler compiled the best school guide for the Sunday Times and she says Munster schools performed well this year:

“Munster has generally being doing extremely well. Even though it has (only) half the population of Leinster, it has almost as many schools in our top 100,” she said.

“It’s a really impressive punching above its weight. You see that in our top three – you have the Limerick school and the two schools located pretty close to each other in Cork city.”

In 2014, Laurel Hill was the first Irish-language school to top the guide since the paper’s annual Parent Power survey began in 2003. Laurel Hill Colaiste FCJ is also the only non-fee-paying school to top the table in the past 10 years.

Second overall in this year’s, and up five places from seventh in 2014, the 670-pupil Presentation Brothers College, Cork, is Ireland’s top fee-paying school and the best boys’ school in the country.

“Pres” sent an average of 87.8% of its students to university between 2012 and 2014. It has been the top school in Cork for seven out of the past 12 years.

The top 25, plus % of pupils going on to university.

1 Laurel Hill Colaiste FCJ, Sth Circular Rd, Limerick 92.4%

2 Presentation Brothers College, Mardyke, Cork 87.8%

3 Scoil Mhuire, Sidney Place, Cork 85.3%

4 Colaiste Iosagain, Booterstown, Co Dublin 85.2%

5 Gonzaga College, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 85.0%

6 Alexandra College, Milltown, Dublin 6 84.3%

7 Glenstal Abbey School, Murroe, Co Limerick (B only) 84.2%

8 Mount Anville Secondary School, Dublin 14 84.2%

9 Colaiste na Coiribe, Tuam Road, Galway 81.5%

10 Jesus & Mary Secondary School, Salthill, Galway 81.5%

11 Mount Mercy College, Model Farm Rd, Cork 80.2%

12 The Teresian School, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 79.2%

13 Christian Brothers College, Sidney Hill, Cork 79.1%

14 Colaiste An Phiarsaigh, Glanmire, Co Cork (B) 78.9%

15 *Colaiste Iognaid SJ, Sea Rd, Galway 78.0%

16 Colaiste Ide, Dingle, Co Kerry (B only) 7.77%

17 Loreto College, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 77.2%

18 Colaiste Eoin, Booterstown, Co Dublin 76.9%

19 Loreto High School, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 76.2%

20 Castleknock College, Castleknock, Dublin 15 76.0%

21 Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co Limerick (B only) 75.1%

22 Holy Child Secondary School, Killiney, Co Dublin 74.6%

23 Rathdown School, Glenageary, Co Dublin (B) 73.6%

24 Belvedere College, Great Denmark St, Dublin 1 73.3%

25 St Michael’s College, Ailesbury Road, Dublin 4 73.0%

***The Sunday Times Best Schools Guide 2005 ranks the top 400 secondary schools in Ireland by the average proportion of pupils gaining places in autumn 2012, 2013 and 2014 at one of the nine universities on the island of Ireland, main teacher training colleges, Royal College of Surgeons or National College of Art and Design.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/cork-and-limerick-secondary-schools-top-best-100-list-693404.html