Irish Times feeder school tables to a large extent reflect existing and in-built social inequalities
The researchers are among those who call for a “value-added” approach to measure school performance, which measures where students start in terms of ability and background against their eventual academic outcomes.
“What we do in our paper on value-added approaches to assessing schools, however, is control for factors that might have affected the post-primary school’s cohort of students, including how they got on in primary schools, parental levels of education and their socioeconomic background.” All of these advantages would be passed on whether or not a child attended a fee-paying school: this is why you will also see high third-level progression rates from non-fee-paying schools in wealthier parts of the country, including around parts of north and south county Dublin.
Of course, not all parents who send their children to fee-paying schools are especially wealthy. Some fee-paying schools, including Belvedere College in north inner-city Dublin, take in a proportion of scholarship students.
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