§ 27. Mr. LOUGHasked the President of the Board of Education how many elementary schools in England and Wales which receive assistance either from rates or taxes have an average attendance of less than twenty scholars; and how many are there between 20 and 30, 30 and 40, 40 and 50, 50 and 60, 60 and 80, 80 and 100, respectively?
Mr. PEASEFor information as to the average attendance in small public elementary schools, I may refer the right hon. Member to Command Paper 7214, for the year 1911–12, presented in January last, which very nearly covers the ground to which the question relates. This statement does not give separate figures for 834 schools of under twenty scholars and does not include departments of higher elementary schools. Of the latter there was one with an average attendance between forty and fifty, three with an average attendance between sixty and eighty, and two with an average attendance between eighty and one hundred.
Mr. PEASEThat would take a good deal of research, and I think my right hon. Friend will find all the information he requires in the Return.