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Table B2. —School Attendance at Public Schools for 1921.

Table B3.—Average Attendance for the Year 1921 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 tbe 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 IHb .. 37 Grade Vc .. 385 Grade VIIc .. 139 „ IVa .. 63 „. Vn ..94 „' VIId .. 128 „ IVb .. 144 „ VIA--' .. 163 „ Vllu .. 189 „ IVo .. 132 „ Vlu ..82 „ Vila .. 39 Va .. 141 „ VII.v .. 159 „ VIIi .. 214 Vb ..117 Total .. 2,226

a< iioludmg Seoondarj Departn rorrts of D iatrict llij ;h Sohools.) Education Districts. Roll N umbers. Meair of i of Foi Iverago W( ir Quarter* ;ekly Roll i, 1921. Average Attendance for Whole Year (Mean of Averago Attondaneeof Four Quarters). Hoys. Girls. Total. r Average Attendance as Percentage of Average Weekly Roll. Pupils at .'list De cember, 1920. Pupils at Blst December, 1921. Boys. Girls. Total. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Hawke's Bay Wellington Nelson Canterbury Otago Southland 57,236 10,439 15,748 14,489 25,002 7,154 35,370 22,304 12,060 60,279 10,834 16,402 15,242 26,059 7,210 36,400 22,507 12,424 30,871 5,587 8,417 7,890 .13,429 3,682 18,346 11,441 6,311 28,193 5,029 7,701 7,011 12,119 3,385 17,261 10,549 5,722 59,064 10,616 16,118 14,901 25,548 7,067 35,607 21,990 12,033 27,436 24,753 52,189 5,077 4,468 9,545 7,621 6,892 14,513 7,163 6,312 13,475 12,303 10,971 23,274 3,317 3,010 6,327 16,520 15,405 31,925 10,009 9,665 20,274 5,680 5,104 10,784 88-4 89-9 .90-0 90-4 91-1 89-5 89-7 92-2 89-6 Totals, 1921 Totals, 1920 .. '. 199,802 207,357 105,974 102,610 96,970 '94,121 1202,944 196,731 95,720 89,687 86,580 81,415 182,306 171,102 89-8 87-0 Difference 7,555 3,364 2,849 6,213 6,039 5,165 11,204 2-8 i i

Grade. _JI Inolnding S condary Dopartr "3 r <^ 3 g g 1 l s I n ents of Districr. ra 4 a 5 £ 9 0 P s i ligb Schools.) "I >. V. 3 JO 1 a ,co ra o QE ra O a Totals S for S 1021. D o m 0 I II III ( A TV J. B Ic V J B i Kj ID VI . |A Vi IB fA B C D mJ e G H I J K L 1-8 9-20 21-35 36-80 81-120 121-160 161-200 201-240 241-280 281-320 321-360 361-400 401-440 441-480 481-520 521-560 561-600 601-640 641-680 681-720 721-760 761-800 801-840 841-880 881-920 921-960 206 | 46 88 .. 3,146 517 808 .. 3,987 1,044 1,010 .. 8,766 2,831 2.815 .. 2,893 857 792 .. 1,283 588 1,387 1,092 178 606 .. 2,429 259 203 .. 1,469 232 520 .. 2,160 614 1,781 .. 2,848 .. 376 .. 2,272 .. 369 875 .. 457 .. 2,919 531 471 .. 2,063 .. 1,049 571 582 548 .. 2,952 565 .. 1,858 642 649 .. 1,978 .. 701 .. 3,576 .. 1,462 .. 1,506 134 240 618 932 628 I.360 1,781 2,387 1,279 1,050 545 1,196 307 1,469 226 893 1,021 770 630 1,873 1,418 1,240 844 791 43.1 924 482 1,061 500 538 1,593 622 1,184 608 1,383 681 1,424 123• 108 627 1,498 747 2,447 1,291 4,443 071 J 2,672 398 848 340 I 1,599 68fi I 1.528 265 878 563 981 1,694 1,537 447 950 508 1,117 1,141 2,543 714 2,006 682 727 101 1,006 1,294 2,978 1,502 033 840 561 587 1,723 411 416 951 2,459 531 1,717 594 1,301 698 63 1,169 697 9,849 1.306 13.823 2,831 30,123 423 ' 12,199 438 7,310 704 7,135 908 7.108 5,716 916 10,105 9,299 6,224 3,550 1,305 | 7,609 7,640 5,480 8,181 1,261 8,155 8,083 5,637 3,613 1,506 1,663 881 902 II . '. 826 881 837 902 Totals for 1921 .. 52,371 9,486 14,630 13,446 123,324 6,401 32,093 20,363 10,852 182,966