SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 124, 23 February 1928, Page 10

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

AFFECTED BY EPIDEMICS A report was presented at yesterday’s meeting, of the. Education Board showing the' average quarterly attendance in thes schools of the Wellington district for the year 1927. The report was

It bad been hoped, stated the report, that the reduction in regularity of attendance noticed in 192 G would be only temporary, but a continuance of the series of epidemics throughout last year reduced the percentage still further. Not since the year 1920 has the regularity of attendance been so seriously affected. It was not till the last quarter that an approach to normal was reached when an increase in the average attendance of 685 over the September quarter was recorded. There was a mean increase of roll of 492, with an increase of average attendance amounting to 212. The numbers recorded in the city and suburbs for the first two weeks of the' present year show a substantial increase over the numbers for December, 1927, which in turn were considerably higher than those for the preceding quarters. The increase in the Hutt Valley area exceeds that observed in any other area in New Zealand, and the board is informed that it is greater within the limit of time than lias taken place anywhere else in New Zealand in the same period.

as follow: — Average roll. Average attendance. Marell quarter .. 26,824 21,476 June quarter September quarter .. .. 27,316 .. 27,6'14 .. 28,315 24,301 21,269 December quarter .. 24,954 Totals . 27,537 24,500