Leinster
Maths Grinds Meath
Meath has grown fast, and its schools have grown with it. Navan, Ashbourne, Ratoath and Dunboyne have all expanded substantially, and large class sizes are the normal experience for a Meath student sitting Higher Level maths.
Get in touchA class of thirty moving at the pace the syllabus demands leaves very little room for a student who missed something in 4th year. Most Meath students who come looking for grinds are not weak at maths. They lost the thread at a specific point and the class never stopped.
Like Kildare, a lot of the county commutes, and a lot of students travel a fair distance to school already. Adding an evening drive to a grinds class on top of that is often the thing that makes it not happen. The students who most need the extra hour tend to be the ones with the least time to spend travelling for it.
Meath students generally arrive with reasonable exam technique and a clear gap. Finding exactly where the thread was lost is usually a single session's work.
What Meath students are up against
These are national figures. The State Examinations Commission does not break results down by county, so nobody can honestly tell you how your county compares.
- 11%
- got a H1 in Higher Level maths
- Down from 12.6% in 2024, and well up on 6.4% in 2019
- 27.3%
- got a H1 or H2
- Of the 23,450 students who sat Higher Level maths in 2025
- 36.3%
- of students now sit Higher Level
- Up from 15.8% in 2011, a 130% rise since bonus points came in
- 25
- bonus CAO points for Higher Level
- Awarded for 40% or above. 22,183 students earned them in 2025
National figures, 2025 exam sitting. Sources: RTÉ, Leaving Cert 2025 results, RTÉ Brainstorm, 2025. The State Examinations Commission does not publish results by county.
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Students across Meath
Online grinds mean the distance from Navan to anywhere else stops mattering. Meath has around 28 secondary schools, and students come from all over the county.
- Navan
- Ashbourne
- Trim
- Dunboyne
- Ratoath
- Kells