The Presentation Secondary is the top school in Waterford this year when it comes to sending students to college.
The Irish Times list of feeder schools for 2022 has tracked the proportion of students in individual schools who go on to third-level education.
The paper's findings show that students from fee-paying schools "continue to have an advantage in securing college courses, but that advantage has slipped somewhat as grade inflation and expanded college places open up third-level to more students from non-fee and disadvantaged schools."
In Waterford, the schools with the highest percentage of students who went on to third level this year are:
The Presentation Secondary School, Ard Scoil na nDéise in Dungarvan, Meán Scoil san Nioclás in An Rinn, Gaelcholáiste Phort Láirge in Ballygunner, and Ard Scoil na Mara in Tramore.
The Presentation is also the only Waterford school to have made the top 20 nationally.
They top the list when it comes to students sent on to Tech Universities - at 76%.
When it comes to the percentage of students sent to Universities in 2022, at 85%, Gaelcholáiste Phort Láirge is the only local school to make the top 20.
All incoming first year students are included in this study, no matter what year they sat the leaving cert.
Of the 38 leaving cert students who attended Presentation Secondary, 26 went on to SETU, four to UCC, two to TU Dublin, and one to UDC, DCU, UL, MTU, and TUS.
Of the 27 students who attended Mean Scoil San Nioclás, 10 went on to UCC, four to MTU, and just two to SETU.
Four went on to study in DCU, UCD, UL, and Maynooth University.
SETU is the most popular third-level education institution that pupils from Waterford schools attend.
Of all the colleges and universities listed, no students from Waterford schools went on to study in Griffith College or the RCSI.
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