The Schools of Europe.

Evening Star, Issue 7247, 25 June 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Schools of Europe.

The Paris ‘ Figaro ’ gives some interesting statistics on schools in Europe. In Russia there are 32,000 schools, having each an average of 36 scholars. This is one school for 2,300 inhabitants, at a cost of less than a halfpenny a-head of the population. In Austria, with 37,000,000 of inhabitants, there are 29,000 schools and 3,000,000 scholars. The average number at each school is 104, and the cost per inhabitant 9id. In Italy for 28,000,000 inhabitants there are 47,000 schools—one school for every 600 people, at a cost of a-head. The average number of pupils at the schools is 40. In Spain there are 3,000,000 scholars, 29.000 schools, giving an average of 66 in each school, and one school for every 600 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 for every 600 inhabitants, and an average attendance of 52 per school, and a cost of Is 6d per head. The Germans have a school for every 700, giving a total of 60.000 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 Is 2kl per inhabitant.