Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 9 December 2015
172. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the latest data from the State Examinations Commission and her Department on the percentage of school leavers from all 192 secondary level schools with DEIS status who sat the leaving certificate, and the percentage of these who went on to third level education, further education and to do an apprenticeship by name and location of school. [44342/15]
View answerThe State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations.
However, SEC does not identify candidates by category of schools. The SEC would not identify DEIS schools within their system. Neither does the SEC retain details of what candidates do after they complete their Leaving Certificate examination. This is not, nor has it ever been, a function of the SEC.
All that the SEC can provide is a list of all second level schools and the number of candidates from each school that sat the Leaving Certificate in each year.
