This help page describes the data report for schools called ‘Performance comparison with other schools'. This report compares your school's energy and emissions performance with that of other schools.
- This report comprises a header and three charts that compare your school's performance with that of other schools with comparable pupil numbers.
- Each of the charts presents data in a similar format.
- In all charts, negative values indicate progress towards the relevant target, and vice versa. Green indicates that a school is on a general trajectory towards achieving the target. Red indicates that it is not yet on a trajectory that is consistent with meeting the target. Your school is shown in a darker shade, i.e. a darker green or a darker red.
- You can view the school name and performance indicator for each school shown in each chart by placing your cursor over the relevant bar in the chart.
- Name of your school and its PSO ID.
- ‘Last year for which data reported’ indicates the most recent year for which data is shown in the report. Note that the data shown in this report is always for the most recently completed reporting cycle and therefore may not be as up to date as the data shown in other reports. The data will be updated with results for the next reporting cycle only when that reporting cycle is formally complete and SEAI publishes the relevant data.
- ‘Data status’ indicates how complete the data is for the year indicated.
- The chart presents the percentage change in each school's fossil CO2 since its greenhouse gas (GHG) baseline, ranked from left to right, with the best-performing school in the group on the left.
- The dashed line shows your school's 2030 fossil CO2 target, expressed as a percentage. Note that while most schools’ fossil CO2 targets are based on the same percentage (i.e. 51% reduction by 2030), a small number of new entrant schools have different target percentages.
- The boxed text on the right indicates how your school ranks among the schools shown.
- Note that not all schools have fossil CO2 emissions, so the number of schools shown in this chart may differ to the number shown in the corresponding total CO2 and energy efficiency charts.
- The chart presents the percentage change in each school's total CO2 since its GHG baseline, ranked from left to right, with the best-performing school in the group on the left.
- Note that the percentage reduction required to achieve a school’s total CO2 target is a function of the breakdown of its consumption between fossil fuels and electricity at its GHG baseline, so the percentage target is unique to each school. For this reason, the point at which each school is deemed to be on track (green) or not-on-track (red) for the total CO2 target is also unique to each school.
- The boxed text on the right indicates how your school ranks among the schools shown.
- The chart presents the percentage change in each school's energy performance indicator (EnPI) since its energy efficiency baseline, ranked from left to right, with the best-performing school in the sector on the left.
- Each school's EnPI is calculated by dividing its annual energy consumption by the number of pupils in that year.
- The dashed line shows your school's energy efficiency target, expressed as a percentage reduction in your EnPI. Note that while most schools’ energy efficiency targets are based on the same percentage (i.e. 50% improvement by 2030), a small number of new entrant schools have different target percentages.
- The boxed text on the right indicates how your school ranks among the schools shown.
- Performance results from some schools may be omitted from the comparison charts because the data/results require further verification.
- The data reports page includes additional information on features that are common to many of the data reports, including this one.
- The SEAI reference for this data report is PSO-R46. Please include this reference if you are contacting the helpdesk with a query relating to this report.