Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statistics on early school leavers in each year of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18737/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The following information is taken from the 2008 Retention report by the Department of Education and Skills, on school retention in Ireland. It is based on a detailed analysis of the records held in the Department's Post-Primary Pupils Database (PPPDB) for the cohort of entrants to the first year of the junior cycle from the years 2000 to 2008 who sat the Leaving Certificate Examinations in the years from 2005 or 2006 to 2014 or 2015. The Department will produce a report on the 2009 cohort for those who sat the Leaving Certificate in 2015 by July this year. See attached table 1.

For more detailed information on these cohorts please visit the DES website for the full report.

My Department has also published two reports are based on a detailed analysis of the records held in the Department focusing on those pupils who were enrolled in post-primary schools in one academic year but not enrolled in one of these schools one year later. These pupils, using a unique personal identifier (a protected identifier key based on the Personal Public Service Number (PPSN)), were tracked to other data sources that were available at the time. The first report was based on cohort of pupils who were enrolled in years prior to the final year of senior cycle in the 2009/2010 academic year and who were not enrolled in the 2010/2011 academic year form the subject of the companion report and the subsequent report was based on the cohort of pupils enrolled in the 2010/2011 academic year and not enrolled in the 2011/2012 academic year. The full reports are available at http://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Early-Leavers-What-Next-.pdf, http://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Statistical-Reports/Early-Leavers-What-Next-2016-Report-.pdf.

Table 1: National Leaving Certificate Retention Rate for 2000-2008 entry cohorts