Salerno tops city's league table
Date Published: 03-Mar-2009
SALERNO Secondary School was the highest ranking city school in this year’s league tables, which saw almost all the Galway schools perform worse than last year, including the perennial top achiever Colaiste na Coiribe, which slipped back 30 places.The Jesus and Mary Secondary School in Salthill, or Salerno or as it is better known, dropped 16 places to 34 in the Sunday Times tables, pipping 'the Jes’ or Colaiste Iognaid on Sea Road at 35, which was a massive improvement on last year’s ranking of 104.The tables are compiled based on the proportion of students who gain places in university. Where schools are tied, the proportion of students gaining places at non-private, third level colleges is taken into account.The highest ranking school in Galway was...