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A TOTAL of 15 Clare schools feature in a new ranking of the top 400 secondary schools in the country.
Scoil Mhuire in Ennistymon is the highest ranked Clare school at 46th place, a jump of eight places on the North Clare School’s previous rank.
The school is also rated at 19 in the top 20 all girls schools in Ireland. Compiled by The Sunday Times, the list places Scoil Mhuire eighth in the top 20 schools in Munster, excluding Cork.
Colaiste Mhuire, Ennis ranked in 16th place in that particular list.
Colaiste Mhuire, at 74, is the only other Clare school that is listed in the top 100.
The remaining Clare schools selected by The Sunday Times are: Rice College, Ennis (106); Mary Immaculate School, Lisdoonvarna (126); Meanscoil Na mBraithre, Ennistymon (150); St John Bosco Community College, Kildysart (157); Scariff Community College (184); St Joseph’s Secondary School, Miltown Malbay (215); Ennis Community College (225); St Flannan’s College, Ennis (240); St Anne’s Community College, Killaloe (265); Kilrush Community School (249); St Caimin’s Community School, Tullyvarraga (304); St Joseph’s Secondary School, Tulla (318); St Michael’s Community School, Kilmihil (343).
The top 400 secondary schools are ranked by the average proportion of pupils gaining places in autumn 2011, 2012, 2013 at one of the nine universities on the island of Ireland, main teaching training colleges, Royal College of surgeons, or National College of Art and Design.
Data was collected from 30 third- level institutions in the Republic and two in Northern Ireland.
Where schools are tied, the proportion of students gaining places at all non-private, third-level colleges is taken into account. Schools offering only senior cycle and new schools were excluded.