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Table B2.—School Attendance at Public Schools for 1918.

Table B3.— Average Attendance for the Year 1918 at the Public Schools as grouped in Table A1, as estimated for determining the Grades of Schools.

The following notes are appended in explanation of this table :— A.—The average attendance as given in Table B3 differs from that in Table B2 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 TIIa, 14; lIIb, 45; IVa, 106 ; IVb, 178; Va, 168; Vb, 134; Vc, 181; Yd, 186; Vla, 139; Vlb, 190; VIIa, 114; VIIb, 104; VIIc, 52; VIId, 253 ; VIIf, 130; VIIh, 329 : total, 2,323.

(: uoluding I no] Seoondarj f Depart™ aents of II >istrict Hi gh Sohools.) Average Attendance for Whole Year (Mean of Average Attendance of FoulQuarters). Education Districts. Roll Ni Pupils at 31st December, 1917. umbers. Pupils at 31st December, 1918. Mean of / of Foi Average W< ur Quarter! Girls. cekly Roll s, 1918. Average Attendance as Percentage of the Mean of Average Weekly Roll of Four Quarters, 1918. Boys. Total. Hoys. Girls. Total. i Auckland.. Taranaki Wanganui Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Canterbury Otago Southland 52,133 10,019 15,204 13,176 24,300 8,859 34,119 22,494 11,990 53,650 10,285 15,626 13,614 25,208 7,139 34.722 22,610 12,080 27,483 5,282 7,971 6,940 12.925 3,675 17,476 11,467 6,155 25,402 4,784 7,323 6,395 11,876 3,400 16,449 10,688 5,691 52,885 10.066 15,294 13,335 24,801 7,075 33,925 22,155 11,846 24,1.97 22,018 46,215 4,696 4,204 8,900 7,168 6,522 13,690 6,194 5,663 11,857 11,782 10,534 22,316 3,280 2,976 6.256 15,463 14,435 29,898 10.533 9,696 20,229 5,470 5,005 10,475 87-4 88-4 89-5 88-9 90-0 88-4 88-1 91-3 88-4 Totals, 1918 Totals, 1917 190,354 194,934 99,374 97,819 92,008 90,135 191,382 187,954 88.783 81,053 169,836 88,214 80,497 168,711 88-7 89-8 Difference 4,580 1,555 1,873 3,428 569 556 1,125 -IT I

(Including Secondary Departr -j rj Grade. 3 "3 2 3 1 I § _ | <! EH __ S ieeou lary 'epart; ion « CO © J. s W is o: Us a o & a % sric :ig a o If: $ z tH. u a 0-3 Sh O O tS OC § I O O too! Is. T3 a d 3 HB o w Totals for 1918. 0 1-8 .. .. 288 33 88 1 9-20 .. .. 2,682 492 '912 II 21-35 .. .. 4,007 1,052 851 m (A 36-80 .. .. -7,710 2,592 2,771 lll (,B 81-120 .. .. 2,102 971 1,053 fA 121-160 .. .. 807 311 1,223 lV-{ B 161-200 .. .. 2,017 188 354 Id 201-240 .. .. 1,330 .. 438 fA 241-280 .. .. 3,370 264 768 v \ B 281-320 .. .. 987 582 1,232 v ] 0 321-360 .. .. 1,027 .. 629 fD 361-400 .. ..1,533 V [ (A 401-450 .. ..1,182 .. 423 \B 451-500 .. .. 2,886 461 1,001 : A 501-550 .. .. 1,024 .. 1,036 B 551-600 .. .. 1,009 570 593 0 601-650 .. .. 3,075 D 651-700 .. .. 4,033 1,392 672 ~„j E 701-750 .. ..2,825 Vn \ F 751-800 . . . . 788 I Q 801-850 .. . . 801 I 11 851-900 . . .. 856 | I 901-950 .. ( J 951-1,000 61 607 548 1,828 990 678 163 462 1,061 1,242 1,065 , 772 476 192 960 1,297 2,559 984 1,201 1,207 1,434 746 1,478 1,687 133 633 617 1,240 756 533 720 467 260 289 734 89 86 1,441 1,061 2,470 1,502 4,404 2,925 1,916 895 1,540 1,058 1,210 1,043 1,818 515 764 294 321 1,636 997 1,948 1,494 1,270 418 463 1,443 1,051 1,046 1,166 1,711 3,636 3,136 645 675 735 7 863 .'! 906 43 050 1,112 2,664 632 663 1,133 201 572 310 391 407 422 603 740 1,013 9,438 13,356 28,693 10,299 8,074 8,095 6,150 7,748 6,997 7,351 6,138 4,655 7,209 5,225 6,839 11,633 9,477 5,018 4.645 801 1,719 906 585 479 533 1,008 1,790 598 1,326 1,477 1,562 603 ■lU 710 820 740 Totals for 1918 .. 46,399 8,908 14,044 Totals for 1917 .. 46,011 8,737 13,618 46,399 46,011 8,908 8,737 14,044 13,618 12,074 11,704 22,638 21,879 6,282 6,241 6,282 6,241 30,016 20,575 1 30,159 20,575 1 30,016 30,159 10,543 10,651 10,543 10,651 171,479 169,575 Difference .. .. + 388 + 171 + 426 + 388 + 171 + 426 + 370 + 759 + 41 - 143 - 108 + 1,904