Schools in Europe

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

Schools in Europe

Ix Russia there aie 32,000 schools, having each an average of thirty-six scholars. This is one school for 2,300 inhabitants, at acosii of less than a halfpenny a head of the population. In Aubtriii, with 37, 000,000 of inhnhilanU, there arc 29,000 schools and 3,000,000 scholars. The average number afc each school is 104 and the cost per inhabitant 9id. In Italy, for 25,000,000 inhabitants theic are 47,000 schools, one .school for every GOO pcojjle, at a cost of S£d per head. The average number of pupils at the .schools is foi ty. In .Spain there are 3,000,000 .scholars, 29,000 schools, giving an average of 5G in each school and one school for o\ery GOO inhabitants, as in Italy. The school bill comes to Is 2d a head. The number of schools given for England is 58,000, which is one "tor every GOO inhabitants, with an average attendance of 52 per school, and a cost of Is 6cl per head. The Germans have a school for every 700, giving a total of 00.000 schools, with 100 pupils in each, and Is 7d per inhabitant. France has 71,000 schools, being one for every 500, with 66 in each school. France would, therefore, seem to have more schools than any other great European country. These schools cost the country 2^d per inhabitant.