There is disappointment but no surprise for principal Alice Lynch that her school’s showing in annual college ‘league tables’ has dropped dramatically this year.
St Kilian’s Deutsche Schule, the German school in Clonskeagh, south Dublin, would expect a transition rate to higher education of between 90 to 100pc, but for 2020 it fell to 63pc.
“This bears out what we anticipated. We are disappointed but not surprised,” said the principal.
The fee-paying school previously raised serious objections about how the Leaving Cert calculated grades affected its students’ results in German, at which they normally excel. The St Kilian’s board of management and nine pupils are pursuing the matter through a High Court action, one of about 50 cases triggered by the calculated grades process.