§ 43. Mr. SHEPHERDasked the President of the Board of Education the number of children who left school on attaining the age of 14 during the last educational school year?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Lord Eustace Percy)Excluding those pupils who proceeded to secondary schools or other institutions for further full-time education, the number of pupils who left public elementary schools during the year ended 31st March, 1927, after attaining the age of 14 was 510,542. Of these, 63,958 had remained at school for a period after reaching the normal age of exemption.