{"id":535634,"date":"2026-07-06T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535634\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:38:11","slug":"ireland-records-one-of-eus-highest-school-retention-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535634\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Records One Of EU&#8217;s Highest School Retention Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 6 July 2026 11:55\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/62ebbb817d23f.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The state is second in the EU, only behind Croatia.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Nine in 10 secondary school students are now completing the Leaving Cert.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from the latest school retention report shows Meath had the highest retention rate, while Roscommon had the lowest.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education says the figures are strong overall, with the state having the second highest retention rate in the EU behind Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>Guidance Counsellor, Mullingar&#8217;s Betty McLaughlin says very few people aren&#8217;t sitting their state exams:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 6 July 2026 11:55 The state is second in the EU, only behind Croatia. Nine in 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-535634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}