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Table B2.—School Attendance at Public Schools for 1920.

Table B3.—Average Attendance for the Year 1920 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 sohools. (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 deter-mining the grades of schools. For determining the " primary" staff's of schools, however, the figures require to be reduced by the attendance in secondary departments of district high schools, viz. : — Grade 111b .. 60 Grade Vα .. 231 Grade VIIo .. 271 „ Iva ..72 „ Vt> .. 221 „ VHd .. 38 „ IVb .. 130 „ Vla .. 131 „ Vllo .. 341 „ IVc .. 76 „ Vlb . . 192 „ VIIj .. 222 Vα . . 197 „ , VHa .. 58 Vβ .. 39 „ Villi .. 164 Total .. 2,443

QOJ ling leoondar iparti lents o: 'istrict ■igl 100J Mean of 1 of Foi Lverage Wi u- Quarter! jekly Roll i, 1920. Averaf Who] Average te Attendai 10 Year (Mc Attendant Quarters). ice for san of 3 of Four Average Attendance as Percentage of the Mean of Average Weekly Roll of Four Quarters, 1920. Roll Numbers. Education Districts. Pu a f s Pupils 31s » De - Decern Ti9 er ' »« TmBoys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Canterbury Otago Southland 54,787 57,236 10,310 10,439 15,445 15,748 13,957 14,489 24,886 25,002 7,004 7,154 35,138 35,370 22,460 22,304 12,072 12,060 29,306 5,431 8,127 7,474 13,029 3,642 17,978 11,384 6,179 26,909 4,874 7,455 6,650 11,719 3,355 16,919 10,596 5,644 56,275 10,305 15,582 14,124 24,748 6,997 34,897 21,980 11,823 25,795 4,739 7,025 6,507 11,464 3,236 15,440 10,127 5,354 23,413 4,216 6,367 5,727 10,140 2,939 14,424 9,351 4,838 49,208 8,955 13,392 12,234 21,604 6,175 29,864 19,478 10,192 87-4 86-9 86-0 86-6 87-3 88-3 85-6 88-6 86-2 Totals for 1920 Totals for 1919 199,802 190,059 102,610 100,771 94,121 92,884 196,731 ,193,655 89,687 91,368 81,415 83,517 171,102 174,885 87-0 90-3 Difference 3,743 1,839 1,237 3,076 -1,681 -2,102 -3,783 -3-3

(Inclu ling Secondary icpartments o£ District '. :igh so: iooIs.) Grade. T3 a eg 3 O 3 3 3 a o3 p. 'g ' « § 3 -5 '_ CO CD d a (j s ,* 5 .? S E S a c 65 >> p. 3 p. CD a OS o o so aS O •a a 03 3 -£> a o to Totals for 1920. 0 I II = {_ IV J. B lo y[_ 1 C LJ ? fA B C D VII 1 F G H I J K 1-8 9-20 21-35 36-80 81-120 .. 121-160 161-200 201-240 .. 241-280 281-320 .. 321-360 .. 361-400 401-440 .. 441-480 .. 481-520 521-560 561-600 .. 601-640 641-680 681-720 .. 721-760 .. 761-800 801-840 .. 841-880 .. 881-920 .. 921-960 .. 303 3,298 4,815 8,927 2,946 887 2,168 1,592 2,669 1,572 2,209 1,874 1,304 2,438 1,478 1,140 1,157 1,872 2,627 1,344 2,804 2,128 776 58 581 1,098 2,701 848 585 197 228 243 586 464 549 1,377 97 78 175 859 555 1,141 961 538 1,208 2,634 1,926 2,257 1,170 1,107 1,359 1,105 694 1,380 544 326 724 459 445 1,111 574 1,036 766 1,199 624 1,226 325 1,011 993 368 733 1,505 1,378 427 .. 473 1,489 .. 535 535 1,113 1,023 617 516 1,729 643 .. 570 175 1,141 1,208 2,257 1,359 1,380 724 1,111 766 1,226 993 1,505 122 538 853 1,058 794 508 543 433 547 290 112 1,732 2,547 4,572 2,510 1,243 1,666 907 565 1,232 1,721 1,477 55 1,142 1,636 2,964 1,085 1,174 702 521 586 1,009 1,066 409 952 1,960 526 609 2,936 659 689 57 745 1,202 2,805 596 590 738 654 905 1,057 10,591 14,858 29,904 12,415 8,166 7,605 5,829 6,921 8,220 7,268 7,023 3,947 6,587 5,974 4,865 8,157 9,096 7,180 4,118 5,614 2,981 1,609 810 VI 473 535 1,023 1,729 570 647 2,085 749 1,375 512 528 3,529 1,914 2,613 856 458 612 634 647 'II 2,085 684 749 853 833 833 sio 909 "909 Totals for 1920 Totals for 1919 52,325 48,892 9,575 9,219 14,006 14,241 12,933 12,453 22,489 22,744 6,370 6,411 32,474 31,481 20,680 20,794 10,852 10,619 181,704 176,854 Increaso Decrease 3,433 356 235 480 255 41 993 ii4 233 4,850