DECREASE IN ROLLS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 25, 13 February 1937, Page 4

DECREASE IN ROLLS

School Population in H.B. Area ABOUT 7.7 PER CENT. SMALLER "The decrease last year !n the sehool population, excluding the new admissions of five-year-olds totalling 1899, is approximately 7.7 per cent,', which is somewhat in keeping with the downward tendency of late vears,'» said the secretary, Mr W. L. Dunn, of the Hawke 's Bay Education Board attendances for 1936 at the schools ili the board 's area. The report stated that the Aumber of pupils on the roll of public schools at the end of Deeember was 15,643, an yestherday when reporting upon the increase of 822 over that of the previous year. This meant that tho school population had increased by 5.3 per cent.

A special return which had been compiled for the department showed that 2358 five-year-olds who had not proviously attended a public school were admitted to the schools !n this distriet, he said. Of this number 459 could have been admitted to school in the last term of 1935 under the legislation then in force. The remainder, 1899, might therefore fairly be described as the flve-year-old enolmrent under the nresent Government 's legislation. This number represented an increase of 13 per cent over the average weekly roll for 1935. The average weekly roll for 1936 was 15,334, an increase of 773 0n that for 1935, and the average attendance was 14,051, an increase of 546. The nercentage of attendance for i986, however, was lower than for the previnus year, being 91.6 per cent, as against 92.7 per cent in 1935, a difference of 1.1 per cent.