Pupils lose out in CAO-type school placement

UP to 80 sixth-class Limerick primary school pupils have been left without first round offers under a new method of allocating places in the city’s 15 secondary schools.

A CAO-type system of school placement is now being operated by the city’s secondary schools to ensure that every student will have an offer of a place at the completion of the process.

One parent, who asked not to be named, said his 11-year-old daughter had filled in her first five choices as the new system requires.