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Table B2.—School Attendance at Public Schools for 1917.

Table B3.—Average Attendance for the Year 1917 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 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 then o-rades. 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, 10; lIIb, 64 ; IVa, 76 ; IVb, 181; IVc, 98 ; Va, 57 ; Vb, 169 ; Vc, 201 ; Yd, 127 ; Vla, 137 ; Vlb, 276; VIIa, 43 ; VIIb, 106 ; VIIc, 30 ; VIId, 288 ; VIIe, 120 ; VIIi, 252 : total, 2,235.

(I no] iOluding fc Seoondary lar ■ Departm lents of I) istrict Hij gh Sohools.) Education Districts. Roll Nv umbers. Moan of A of Fob Average W< ir Quarters aekly Eol 1 3, 19)7. Average Attenrla.i Whole Year (Me Average Attendance Quarters). nee for nan of c of Four Average Attendance as Percentage of the Mean of Average Weekly Roll of Four Quarters, 1917. Pupils at 31st December, 1916. Pupils belonging at 31st December, 1917. Boys. Total. Boys. , Girls. Total. Girls. Auckland., Paranaki .. Wanganui Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Uanterbury Otago Southland 50,331 9,564 14,829 13,001 23,726 6,734 33.596 22,209 11,894 52,133 10,019 .15,204 13,176 24,360 6,859 34,119 22,494 11,990 26,806 5,130 7,890 6,750 12,601 3,611 17,395 11,481 6,155 24,668 4,695 7,175 6,271 11,457 3,313 1.6,235 10,646 5,675 [ 51,474 9,825 J 5,065 13,021 ; 24,058 6,924 33,630 22,127 11,830 [ 23,964 21,779 4,557 4.123 ! 7,128 6,415 ; 6,029 5.584 11.475 10.329 3,273 2,944 15,604 14,457 10.663 9,816 5,521 5,050 4. r ),743 8,680 13,543 II,613 2!,804 6,217 30,061 20,479 10,571 88-9 88-3 89-9 89-2 90-6 89'8 89-4 92-6 89-4 Totals, 1917 Totals, 1916 185,884 190,354 97,819 95,775 90,135 88,281. 1 87,954 184,056 88,214 80,497 85,408 77,748 168,711 163,1.06 89-8 88-6 Difference 4,470 2,044 1,854 3,898 2,806 2,749 5,555 1-2 I I

Grade. (Including Secondary Dopnrtm * r.-a I § I J -4 H P tents of District High Sohools.) 33 g g S 3 g S 1 II 1 d I O a Totals « for 19)7. o 03 0 1-8 1 0-20 II 21-35 m (A 30-80 IB 81-120 [A 121-160 IV { B 101-200 [ (! 201-240 fA 241-280 V J B 281-320 1 0 321-360 (.D 361-400 Vi ( A 401-450 \B 451-500 'A 501-550 B 551-600 C 601-650 D 651-700 j E 701-750 .. vu i F 751-800 G 801-850 H 851-900 I 901-950 J 951-1,000 . . 285 38 7L .. 2,813 501 822 .. 3,895 1,036 984 .. 8,062 2,601 2,529 .. 1,628 781 1,306 913 569 1,100 .. 2,624 .. 379 .. 1,905 .. 209 .. 2,075 267 1,356 .. 1,648 592 623 710 .. 334 j .. 1,178 .. 727 .. 1,374 453 476 .. 2,795 .. 2,046 .. I. ,562 I 560 4,479 606 656 .. 3,434 073 .. 2,154 .. 1,058 819 100 203 82 99 540 846 57J J ,372 700 1,314 649 2,568 1,465 2,399 J,199 4,287 1,301 1,526 893 2,103 498 876 6J8 1,537 304 1,251 563 839 485 074 440 1,940 754 1,616 552 515 1,201 916 .. 1,024 j 1,412 1,317 . . 1.352 352 835 .. 1,513 425 . . .. 887 1,963 .. 1,418 1,160 1,085 607 1,302 .. 4,361 J,408 674 1,494 l,48(i 787 .. 706 J08 945 L,557 2,927 1,035 1,094 883 543 515 1,739 741 399 935 1,013 2,358 2,513 670 53 1,039 719 9,135 1,089 13,702 2,034 28,103 680 11,313 534 7,739 869 7,772 590 6,792 7,650 937 ! 6,941 321 7,185 5,340 403 4,417 151 9,608 4,895 4,043 001 J5,I85 6,859 5,134 3,211 770 1,689 1,827 1 * 827 Totals for 1917 Totals for 1916 .. 40,01 J 8,737 13,018 .. 43,750 8,420 13,091 11,704 21.879 6,241 30,159 11,355 20,934 5,906 29,808 11,704 11,355 20,575 20,323 10,651 169,575 10,515 164,108 Difference .. . . +2,255 +317 +527 +527 +349 +945 +335 +252 + 136 +5,407 +317 +35J