E.—2.

PRIMARY EDUCATION.

4. TABLES RELATING TO PRIMARY EDUCATION AND REPORTS (EXTRACTS) OF EDUCATION BOARDS. Table A1.—Number of Public Primary Schools classified according to Grade, and Intermediate Schools and Departments, December, 1937.

Note. —Nine half-time schools and thirty-nine main schools with side schools attached are counted separately, and are included in the separate grades determined by the separate average attendance of each school.

Table A2.—Attendance at Public Primary Schools and in Forms I and II of Intermediate Schools and Departments in 1937.

Note. —The corresponding figures for the secondary departments of district high schools will be found in Table G 1 on page 51 of this paper, and the corresponding figures for Form 111 of the separate intermediate schools in Table B 1 on page 37 of this paper.

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• ® Grade of School ■§ 3 g ® S j| a 3 o § and 3 1 3 ® a a i* - »•§ - Average Attendance. 3 § a 4 - S ® ° SiWS © 5-i r& 5 ■~ H i-H fl aj E3 •+ J u_, pc8£ri©©«8+=>- 0 OqP <1 B M £ £ O O 02 EH 0 (1-8) .. 22 4 15 14 18 25 15 19 6 138 1 (9-20) . . .. 201 36 62 62 60 47 109 70 54 701 II (21-35) .. 144 37 33 27 40 28 74 42 42 467 f A (36-50) .. 96 29 19 18 21 9 40 25 24 281 III<! B (51-80) .. .. 101 24 21 20 17 13 39 20 20 275 [O (81-120) .. ..48 8 14 9 14 8 19 13 7 140 fA (121-160) .. ..18 4 3 9 7 3 8 7 6 65 rvx B (161-200) .. 7 4 3 3 7 2 6 4 4 40 I C (201-240) .. 12 3 3 5 8 7 1 1 40 fA (241-280) .. ..11 1 2 1 5 I 4 1 I 27 V<| B (281-320) .. .. 7 . . 5 2 5 1 3 6 I 30 LC (321-360) .. .. 4 1 3 .. 2 .. 4 2 1 17 fA (361-400) .. ..II 2 3 8 6 1 4 I 1 37 VI-; B (401-440) .. .. 8 .. .. I 1 1 2 3 . . 16 ! C (441-480) .. .. 8 1 .. 1 . . .. 2 2 1 15 S A (481-520) .. 10 2 2 . . 6 .. 4 3 1 28 B (521-560) .. .. 5 .. . . 1 4 .. 7 3 .. 20 C (561-600) .. .. 5 .. 1 .. 2 1 3 1 .. 13 1) (601-640) .. .. 6 .. 1 1 4 .. I 1 1 15 E (641-680) .. 1 ■ • ■ ■ 2 .. 1 4 VII<{ F (681-720) . . 1 1 G (721-760) .. . . 1 I • • ■ • 2 H (761-800) .. .. 1 1 1 3 I (801-840) .. 1 ■■ • • 1 J (841-880) .. .. . • • • • • •• • ■ • ■ •• • • 1 1 _K (881-920) .. 1 • ■ .. 1 Intermediate schools and depart- 7 .. 1 1 2 .. 2 3 .. 16 ments Totals for 1937 .. 733 157 192 184 230 140 358 227 173 2,394 Totals for 1936 .. 750 164 208 184 239 136 371 233 175 2,460 Difference .. .. —17 —7 —16 .. —9 -1-4 —13 —6 —2 —66

(Excluding Secondary Departments of District High Schools, but including pupils in special classes and Standard VII.) 5 Average Attendance for Wr,wiWa Mean of Average Weekly Roll Whole Year (Mean of noil jnu . of Three Terms, 1937. Average Attendance of Three Average Terms). Attendance • . ag PU S 18 PU at ilB ofAvera|e 31st De- 31st De- Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. oember, cember, -non, iy<j7. 1936. 1937. Auckland Education District 65,300 65,278 32,969 80,451 63,420 30,240 27,792 58,032 91-50 Taranaki „ 11,617 11,213 5,778 5,339 11,117 5,377 4,916 10,293 92-59 Wanganui - 15,350 14,980 7,722 7,058 14,780 7,109 6,476 13,585 91-91 Hawke'sBay „ 15,003 14,829 7,563 6,891 14,454 6,971 6,341 13,312 92-10 Wellington' „ 26,971 26.681 13,400 12,550 25,950 12,518 11,660 24,178 93-17 Nelson „ 6,771 6,709 3,386 3,149 6,535 3,155 .2,944 6,099 93-33 Canterbury „ 34,429 33,871 17,161 15,676 32,837 15,857 14,416 30,273 92-19 Otago ' „ 18,610 18,109 9,321 8,398 17,719 8,698 7,815 16,513 93-19 Southland „ 11.814 11,596 5,878 5,408 11,286 5,478 5,034 10,512 93-14 Intermediate scliools and de- 4,257 4,338 2,417 2,021 4,438 2,291 1,904 4,19o 94-52 partm ents ■—-—— ——-—-— i Totals, 1937 .. .. 207,604 105,595 96,941 202,536 97,694 89,298 186,992 92-33 Totals, 1936 .. 210,122 .. 106,182 97,352 203,534 97,981 8S,5?7 187,578' 92-16 Difference .. .. -2,518 -587 -411 -998 -287 -299 -586:- +0-17