Athena Analytics Blog

Kerry’s Fittest School ‘23/’24

Athena Analytics are dedicated to supporting schools in unlocking the potential of every student, that is why, we created an event that celebrates health, vitality, and athleticism – Kerry’s Fittest School Competition ‘23/’24. This groundbreaking competition has inspired the next […]

Athena Analytics Launches the Athena FitnessMark on Ireland AM

Over the past few years we have listened carefully to our schools’ need for a trackable ‘student fitness and wellbeing’ element to our software, specifically to be used during PE class, and so we released a new dynamic software tool […]

The Benefits of a Whole School Approach to Academic Monitoring

Unlocking Every Student’s Potential What is a whole school approach and why have one? A whole school approach is a framework for academic monitoring that takes into consideration all members of the school community: students, teachers, school management, and parents.  […]

Grade Inflation in Leaving Certificate 2020 & 2021

With the advent of a modified grading system in Leaving Certificate 2020 and 2021 due to the disruption caused by the pandemic, a doubling of the average number of H1s awarded across all Higher-Level subjects was observed in 2020, compared […]

Athena shares start up secrets in recent Podcast

Athena Analytics embarked on its start-up journey in 2017, when founder Emily brick returned to Kerry after a stint as a data scientist for the Department of Education in Melbourne, Australia. Emily was delighted to have the opportunity to share […]

Reports on 3rd year 2021 results

In both 2020 and 2021 the Junior Certificate was cancelled. Instead, many schools awarded grades to 3rd year students representing their learning achievements in each subject over their Junior cycle. Although there were no official national statistics on 3rd year […]

Work out my CAO points – Leaving Certificate 2021

As well as having the option to sit the exam in June, all Leaving Certificate 2021 students will receive an Accredited Grade for each of their chosen subjects. This means two options for each subject; receiving an Accredited Grade only or […]

International Women’s Day 2021 – Celebrate female school leaders

There is something powerful about hearing successful leaders speak about those who have influenced them positively throughout their lives. For International Women’s Day 2021, Athena Analytics wanted to do something to celebrate and recognise some of Ireland’s female leaders in […]

Athena Talks Tech in Dublin

Tech is at the heart of what Athena do each and every day for Ireland’s post primary schools. So our founder Emily Brick was delighted to get the opportunity to join David Burke for Dublin Tech Talks in December 2020. […]

Interviews with existing Athena Tracker customers

We think the best way for schools to understand the benefit of our academic tracking software, the Athena Tracker, is to hear from other schools. So we asked a number of the schools currently using the software to describe why […]