§ MR. ERNEST GRAY (West Ham, N.)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education whether the managers of a public elementary school have any right to refuse admission to a child on the ground that the parents do not reside within the area of the local authority in which the school is situate, assuming, always that there is room in the school for such child.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) The fact that a child does not reside in the area of the local education authority in which the school is situate is not of itself a ground upon which the managers of a 913 public elementary school would be justified in refusing to admit the child. Where, however, children of one, area attend a school maintained by the local education authority of another area in such numbers as to entail a serious charge upon the rates, the Board consider that the maintaining authority would be justified in directing the managers to exclude such children, unless the authority within whose area they reside agrees to contribute a proportionate sum to the maintenance of the school.