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TABLE A1.—School Attendance.
The following table contains a summary of the total number of enrolments, the average daily attendance, and the increase, in each year since 1877:—
TABLE A2.—School Attendance and Yearly Increase for Six Years.
The returns show a larger increase in the school attendance for 1883 than was the case in the two previous years. This larger attendance may be attributed not only to the natural increase of population, but also to the enlarged schoolroom accommodation, and to the absence of epidemics to the extent that prevailed in a number of localities during the years 1881 and 1882. A comparison of Table Al with the corresponding table in the report for 1882 shows considerable difference in the proportional increase of attendance for 1883 in the several Board districts. The average attendance had only increased in Marlborough from 1,049 to 1,059, and in Westland from 2,313 to 2,319; while there was an increase m Taranaki from 1,332 to 1,446, in Wanganui from 3,613 to 3,967, and in Hawke's Bay from 2,447 to 2,755. In the three largest districts the increase was as follows Auckland, from 12,223 to 13,079 , North Canterbury, from 12,186 to 12,753, and Otago, from 16,163 to 16,659 or 856, 567, and 496 respectively The number of pupils on the school roll at the end of the quarter may be regarded as fairly representing the actual number belonging to the school for the quarter, although its accuracy depends very much upon the care with which redundant or useless names are removed as soon as possible from the roll. The numbers returned as belonging to all the Board schools in the colony for each of the four quarters of 1883, give an average for the four quarters of 91,011. The average attendance (69,843) was therefore at the rate of 76-7 per cent, of the average number (91,011) belonging to the schools during the year, being a very
Education Distbicts. Number of Scholars belonging at Beginning of Year. Number admitted during the Year. On Schoi )l-rolls. Number who left during the Year. Number belonging at End oJ Year. Strict Average. Avo: ■age Daily Attendance. Working Average, fl 0) O O SSfMh ■"! a ®A f | Poi irth Qua] :ter. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Whole Year. Males. Females. Total. Luckland 'aranaki Vanganui Vellington lawke's Bay farlborough Telson Torth Canterbury iouth Canterbury Vestland )tago louthland 14,118 1 741 4,640 5,767 3,028 1,331 3,579 15,363 3,644 2 798 18,216 5 191 10,019 1,246 2,894 4,139 2 120 577 2,390 9,532 1 797 960 9,592 2,588 7,017 927 2,088 3,066 1 451 422 1,419 7 098 1,521 718 7,263 1,804 17,120 2,060 5,446 6,840 3,697 1,486 4,550 17 797 3,920 3,040 20,545 5,975 12,716 1,306 4,045 5,240 2,840 1,080 3 301 13,181 2,956 2,192 16,881 4,359 12,491 1 317 3,837 5 058 2,623 990 3 103 12,238 2,827 2,263 16,407 4,219 0,941 749 2,181 2,878 1,608 611 1,774 7 128 1,589 1,130 8,905 2,396 6,407 709 1 974 2,406 1,332 530 1,650 6,334 1,450 1 159 8,165 2,142 13,348 1,458 4,155 5,344 2 940 1,141 3,424 13,462 3,045 2,289 17,070 4,538 13,079 1 446 3 967 5,204 2,755 1,059 3 247 12,753 2,955 2 319 16,659 4,400 77'6 70-4 75-2 76-8 77-2 73-7 73-0 73-0 75-0 76-9 81-3 75-7 Totals for 1883 Totals for 1882 79,416 76,309 47,854 47,053 34,794 36,183 92,476 87 179 70,077 66,426 67,373 63,709 37 890 35,909 34,324 32,379 72,214 68,288 69,843 66,145 76-7 76-4 Increase in year 3,107 801 -1,389 5,297 3,651 3,664 1 981 1 945 3,926 3,698 0-3 Totals for 1877 55,688 41 773 40,837 Increase in 6 years 36 788 30,441 29,006 Average yearly increase 0,131 5,074 4,834
School Attendance. Yei urly Increase on Number belonging at Beginning of Year. Average L ttendance, Number belonging at Beginning ot Year. Averago Attendant Year. Number belonging at End of Year. Strict Average. Working Average. Number belonging at End of Year. Strict Average. Working uVerage. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. Fourth Quarter. Whole Year. 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 50,849 59,707 68,124 74,359 76,309 79,416 55,688 65,040 75,566 82,401 83,560 87 179 92,476 49,435 57 301 62,946 63,009 66,426 70,077 45,521 53,067 60,625 61 822 63,709 67 373 41 773 50,639 58,738 64,407 64,744 68,288 72,214 40,837 47,996 54,724 62,234 63 735 66,145 69,843 8,858 8,417 6,235 1,950 3,107 9,352 10,526 6,835 1,159 3,619 5,297 7,866 5,645 63 3 417 3,651 7,546 7,558 1,197 1,887 3,664 8,866 8,099 5,669 337 3,544 3,926 7,159 6,728 7,510 1,501 2,410 3,698