Written answers
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Department of Education and Skills
School Attendance Data
Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of young persons who left second-level education in the each of the years 2013 to 2017, in tabular form. [52159/18]
Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of young persons who left second-level education without completing upper secondary level education in each of the years 2013 to 2017, in tabular form. [52160/18]
Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 213 and 214 together.
The information requested by the Deputy is available in the attached table. The Department publishes information on second level retention rates by cohort - the latest information available is for the cohort of pupils who entered second level education in 2011 and were due to complete the Leaving Certificate in June of 2016 or 2017, depending on whether they completed Transition Year.
Further information on school retention rates is available in the retention reports on the Department's website, available at the following link:
www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Statistical-Reports/Other-Statistical-Reports.html.
Cohort | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milestone | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| Entrants to First Year of Junior Cycle | 55223 | 56075 | 58088 | 59221 | 59641 |
| First Year Entrants who did not enter Second Year of Junior Cycle (non cumulative) | 607 | 449 | 465 | 474 | 494 |
| First Year Entrants who did not enter Third Year of Junior Cycle (non cumulative) | 497 | 505 | 407 | 474 | 428 |
| First Year Entrants who did not sit the Junior Certificate (non cumulative) | 607 | 785 | 1046 | 592 | 544 |
| First Year Entrants who did not entered First Year of Senior Cycle (non cumulative) | 1270 | 1290 | 813 | 1244 | 1047 |
| First Year Entrants who did not enter Second Year of Senior Cycle (non cumulative) | 1988 | 1738 | 1917 | 2014 | 1907 |
| First Year Entrants who did not sit the Leaving Certificate (non cumulative) | 497 | 505 | 1046 | 415 | 579 |
| First Year Entrants who sat the Leaving Certificate | 49756 | 50804 | 52395 | 54010 | 54642 |
Each cohort refers to the percentage of entrants to Junior Cycle in a given year who completed second level with a Leaving Certificate including those who left the state-aided system to complete their Leaving Certificate in a private institution and also factors in those students who left the country or died in the period under consideration. Educational pathways outside the publicly aided school system such as Youthreach and apprenticeship training are not taken into account.
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