High marks in the Leaving Cert
IT WAS smiles all round for most of the students and teachers in local schools who reported good Leaving Cert results.
Apparently it was more good news this week as the majority of students who had applied to college had got their first choice CAO offers.
There was added excitement in Claregalway College as it was their first Leaving Cert class. The 71 boys and girls performed well above the national average, according to Alan Mongey, the principal.
They had 13% over the national average achieving 500 or more points and 36% more than the 24% national average got between 400 and 500 points. Very few of the students got below 300 points.
And Gearóid Leen, Principal of the Mercy Secondary School in Tuam said that this year’s Leaving Cert class of 49 girls got “some of the best results we ever had in the school” with one girl getting over 600 points and a lot of them achieving over 500.
Apparently it was more good news this week as the majority of students who had applied to college had got their first choice CAO offers.
There was added excitement in Claregalway College as it was their first Leaving Cert class. The 71 boys and girls performed well above the national average, according to Alan Mongey, the principal.
They had 13% over the national average achieving 500 or more points and 36% more than the 24% national average got between 400 and 500 points. Very few of the students got below 300 points.
And Gearóid Leen, Principal of the Mercy Secondary School in Tuam said that this year’s Leaving Cert class of 49 girls got “some of the best results we ever had in the school” with one girl getting over 600 points and a lot of them achieving over 500.