More and more local students are staying in school to complete their junior and leaving cert exams according to new figures.
Kilkenny ranks higher than Carlow though, with 98 per cent of students who start school going on to do their junior cert with the figure 91 per cent for the Leaving.
In Carlow, 94 per cent go on to do their junior cert with only 84 per cent making it to the Leaving exams.
The figures used were for those who started in school in 2007.