Academic Excellence

The school aims to help all students achieve their fullest potential in academic and co-curricular fields at each stage of their development. In our teaching, we aim to help, stimulate and challenge each student, and this aim is supported by careful monitoring and regular reporting.

The curriculum provided is balanced, broad and diverse. Scholarship and academic depth are its central features.

A high priority is placed on communication with parents. There is a programme of regular reporting and staff are available to meet with parents on request. There is also a parent-teacher meeting for every year group each year.

The Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate curricula of the Irish Department of Education and Skills are followed. All students sit the Junior Certificate at the end of 3rd Year. Transition Year is compulsory in 4th Year. All students sit the Leaving Certificate at the end of 6th Year. All subjects are taught at Higher level, with the exception of Irish and Mathematics, where there is streaming into Higher and Ordinary level classes.

The Leaving Certificate points obtained by our students exceed the national average each year.

The following links show how the Leaving Certificate points are calculated for entrance to UK Universities: Qualifax / UCAS Tariff Points / UCAS Tariff Calculator.

Each year group is normally divided into two or three for academic purposes, giving us classes of approximately 16 per base class. The academic progress of each class group is monitored by a Tutor. Many classes in the Senior Cycle are considerably smaller than the average size.

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AVERGAGE Leaving Cert Points

Each Student Realising His Full Potential

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Equivalent Points

Equivalent to 3 x A* (UK’s A Levels)

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PROGRESSION TO 3RD LEVEL

Irish and International University Destinations

OUR DIVERSE GRADUATE DESTINATIONS 2014 –2020

Areas of Further Education 2014-2020


Accounting	Forestry
Actuarial Studies	Global Business
Agricultural Science	Game Design
Environmental Sciences	History
Architecture	Hotel Management
Arts	International Business
Journalism	Law
Human Rights	Politics
Biomedical and Health Life Sciences	Liberal Arts
Business	Logistics
Economics and Social Sciences	Marine & Freshwater Science
Business Information Systems	Mathematics
Classics	Maths Science
Commerce	Medicine
Chinese Studies	Multimedia Studies
Computer Science	Music, Media and Performance Technology
Dentistry	Nanoscience
Economics	Pharmacy
Finance	Philosophy
Information Systems	Physics
Philosophy	Physiotherapy
Engineering	Financial Economics
Artificial Intelligence	Psychology
Environmental and Earth System Sciences	Quantitative Business
Environmental Engineering	Science
Environmental Science	Theoretical Physics
Film and Broadcasting	Veterinary Medicine
Film Studies	World Religions and Theology

Further Education Destinations 2014-2020


Cork Institute of Technology (CIT)	Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dublin City University (DCU)	Imperial College London
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)	Les Roches International School of Hotel Management, Switzerland
Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT)	Harper Adam University
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)	London School of Economics
PULSE College at Windmill Lane, Dublin	New York University (NYU)
Trinity College Dublin (TCD)	SOAS, University of London
University College Cork (UCC)	University of Groningen, The Netherlands
University College Dublin (UCD)	University of Madrid, Spain
University of Limerick (UL)	University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Oxford University	University of Tilberg, The Netherlands
Hotel School, The Hague	Kidalton College
Masstricht University	Queen Mary University of London

IRELAND
Trinity College Dublin (24%)
University College Dublin (23%)
Dublin City Univeristy (9%)
Technological University Dublin
Pulse College Windmill Lane
Kildalton
University College Cork (7%)
Cork Institute of Technology
Limerick Institute of Technology
Mary Immaculate College
University of Limerick (8%)
Shannon College of Hotel Management
NUI Maynooth
NUI Galway (5%)
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
UNITED KINGDOM
Oxford
King’s College Imperial
University of London
Case Business School
London School of Economics
University of Sussex

University of Portsmouth
University of Sunderland
Durham University
University of St. Andrews
University of Glasgow
University of Edinburgh
EUROPE
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
École Supérieure de Journalisme de
Lille
ESSEC Business School
Universiteit Gent
Delfte University
University of Tilburg
Maastricht University
University of Groningen
Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln
Zeppelin University
EBS Business School
Universität Liechtenstein
Technische Universitat Wien
Università Bocconi
Les Roches Hospitality School

Ecole Hosteliere de Lausanne
University of Madrid
University of Valencia
USA
Berkeley
Berklee College of Music
Boston College
Harvard Business School
New York University
Stanford Law School
University of Houston
University of California, Santa Barbara
AMERICAS
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Universidade de São Paulo
ASIA PACIFIC
Hong Kong University
Sun Yat-Sen University – Taiwan
Korea Aerospace University
Keio University, Tokyo