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Table B2. —School Attendance at Public Schools in 1923.

Table B3.—Average Attendance for the Year 1923 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 Hle .. 95 Grade Vc .. 203 Grade Vile .. 134 ~ IVa .. 158 ~ Yd .. 201 ~ VIId .. ~ IVb .. 206 ~ VIA .. 383 ~ VIIe .. 91 ~ IVc ..85 „ Vlb .. 234 „ VIIh .. 75 Va .. 404 ~ VIIa .. 177 ~ VLTj .. 214 Vb .. 99 ~ VIIb .. 137 Total .. 2,896

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(: Inoluding Seoondar; Departments of District Hi 'istrict h Sohools.) Average Attendai Whole Year (Me Averago Attendance Quarters). Roll Numbers. Moan of Average Weekly Roll of Four Quarters, 1923. ,nce for can of io of Four Education District, Pupils Pupils at at Hist De- 31st Decemboi', comber, 1922. 1923. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Average Attondanco as Percentage of Avorago Weekly Roll, 19-23. Total. Auckland.. Taranaki Wanganui Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Canterbury Otago Southland 62,910 64,472 11,121 11,341 16,801 16,667 15,755 16,063 26,873 26,720 7,133 7,172 37,001 37,770 22,435 22,214 12,468 12,353 33,062 30,254 63,316 5,851 5,260 11,111 8,687 8,110 10,797 8,252 7,508 15,760 13,920 12,710 20,630 3,698 3,352 7,050 19,083 17,929 37,012 11,322 10,481 21,803 6,420 5,725 12,145 29,093 26,946 5,344 4,775 7,812 7,222 7,518 6,775 12,680 11,420 3,379 3,013 17,157 15,999 10,401 9,525 5,720 5,070 56,639 10,119 15,034 14,293 24,1.00 0,392 33,150 19,920 10,790 89-5 910 89-5 90-7 90-5 90-7 89-6 91-4 88-8 Totals, 1923 Totals, 1922 213,097 214,778 110,295 109,287 101,329 99,904 211,624 209,251 99,704 99,680 90,745 90,332 190,449 190,012 90-0 90-8 Difference 1,681 I 1,008 1,365 2,373 21 413 4117 0-8

(Inol Grade. iding Secondary . I 1 ■8 I 3 c3 H H lary Departments of ] c3 ■3 a r\ 01 I 1 Es fiDistrict a* o to a *© ■ign hools.) >. u 3 & 01 a a D Is.) Totals £ for & 3 1923. rt 3 S ° a' o % to 0 1-8 1 9-20 II 21-35 rTT IA 36-80 1B 81-120 .. fA 121-160 .. IV<;B 161-200 .. [C 201-240 .. fA 241-280 .. V J B 281-320 .. ] C 321-360 .. |_D 361-400 .. „ T jA 401-440 .. V1 |B 441-480 .. fA 481-520 .. B 521-560 .. 0 561-600 .. D 601-640 .. E 641-680 .. VII { P 681-720 .. G 721-760 .. H 761-800 .. 1 801-840 .. J 841-880 .. K 881-920 .. L 921-960 .. 325 44 2,930 630 4,414 947 8,788 2,804 4,079 957 1,709 548 874 558 1.164 241 2,364 1,508 314 2,756 715 2,359 3,037 1,448 3,067 2,175 2,206 483 2,441. 1,239 2,395 1,328 694 3,463 1,502 786 lls 222 747 751 1,028 719 3,008 1,778 558 1,244 1,231 1,081 678 172 469 446 466 555 937 297 1,028 1.377 381 407 411 421 1,433 1,467 1,565 565 597 604 657 644 194 1,104 1,301 1,975 1,172 1,013 1,317 436 2,021. 1,524 1,754 1,279 413 403 1,516 1,072 580 129 583 764 1,289 585 383 364 879 787 148 1,779 2,173 5,033 1,004 1,050 1,356 I ,837 270 575 I ,720 2,329 410 449 * 450 1,6.11 2,340 2,380 121 101 .1,399 1,082 020 10,226 1,669 1,292 14,367 2,137 2,891 29,703 2,064 6ii2 12,985 808 292 8,715 359 309 5,987 400 1.007 0,999 250 0,719 906 580 6,641 1,699 352 11,401 6,755 877 877 6,446 1,399 .. 5,192 1,482 504 10,051 1,034 .. 7,080 1,703 .. 7,909 634 ' 645 8,579 642 .. 0,336 704 689 8,265 3,463 3,898 1,608 857 J., 754 1,998 2,077 630 II 2,773 761 '.'. 772 863 822 857 870 884 Totals for 1923 .. 57,118 10,1.74 15,111 14,579 24,898 0,393 33,545 20,380 11,137 193,335