E.— 2.

Table B2.—School Attendance at Public Schools for 1916.

Table B3.—Average Attendance for the Year 1916 at the Public Schools as grouped in Table A1, as estimated for determining the Grades of Schools. (Part I of the Fifth Schedule to the Education Act, 1914.)

The following notes are appended in explanation of this table : — A.—The average attendance as given in Table B3 differs from that in Table 132 for the following reasons : — (1.) Under certain contingencies the regulations provide for the elimination of one or two quarters' averages in the case of any school or department if the grade of the school or department would be raised or maintained by calculating the yearly average attendance on the mean, of the remaining quarters' average. The amended average attendance thus ascertained is reckoned for the sole purpose of determining the grade of the school, and consequently this amended average attendance is used in the compilation of Table 83, which gives the schools according to their grades. For statistical purposes the average attendance as given in Table B2 should be taken. (2.) The totals of this table are for the mean of the four quarters of each school taken separately, not the mean of the gross quarterly totals of all schools. (3.) New schools, many of which were open for only part of the year, are included as having an average attendance for the whole year ; whereas in Table B2 the average attendance is included only for those quarters during which the schools were open. B.—This table shows the average attendance for determining the grades of schools. For determining the " primary" staffs of schools, however, the figures require to be reduced by the attendance in secondary departments of district high schools, viz. : Grade lIIa, 13 ; lIIb, 28 : IVa, 105 ; IVb, 187; IVc, 14; Va, 207; Vb, 79; Vc, 241; Yd, 87; Vla, 100; Vlb, 256; VIIa, 105; VIIb, 52 ; Vila, 82; VIId, 197 ; VIIb, 59; VIIf, 71; Vila, 72 ; VIIh, 246 : total, 2,201.

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no) hiding looiini lary lepartments o: •istrict ■ig] too. Roll Numbers. Mean of . of Foi iverage Wi ir Quarter! lekly Roll i, 1916. Average Attendai Whole Tear (Me Average Attendance Quarters). i.nce for ean of :e of Four Average Attendance as Percentage of the Mean of Average Weekly Roll of Four Quarters, 1916. Education Districts. Pupils Pupils at belonging 31st De- at Hist oember, Decem1916. ber, 1916. Boys. Girls. Boys. Girls. Total. Total. Auckland.. Taranaki Wanganui Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Canterbury Otago Southland 50,900 6,504 16,320 12,757 23,004 6,719 33.340 21,968 11,702 50,33.1. 9,564 14,829 13,001 23.726 6,734 33,596 22,209 11,894 25,991 4,981 7,690 6,589 12,218 3,532 17,406 11,348 6,020 23,889 4,533 7,013 6,153 11, 1.25 3,271 16,115 10,532 5,650 49,880 9,514 14,703 12,742 23,343 6,803 33,52.1 21,880 11,670 22,721. 4,382 6,848 5,835 10.980 3,098 15,553 10,554 5,437 20,601 3,994 6,155 5,405 9,843 2,811 14,236 9,683 5,020 43,322 8,376 13,003 11,240 20,823 5,909 29,789 20,237 10,457 86-9 88-0 88-4 88-2 89-2 86-9 88-9 92-5 89-6 Totals, 1916 Totals, 1915 .183,214 185,884 95,775 88,281 184,056 181,229 '85,408 85,522 77,748 77,570 163,156 163,092 88-6 90-0 Difference 2,670 2,827 -114 .178 64 -1-4

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