§ Mr. SHORTasked the President of the Board of Education the number of elementary School children, 14 years of age, who left School in 1914, and every successive year up to and including 1925?
§ Lord E. PERCYThe total number of children aged 14 and over who left public elementary schools, including children who left to proceed to places of higher education, in the years 1919–20 to 1924–25, inclusive, was as follows:
Boys. Girls. 1919–20 … … 174,205 185,008 1920–21 … … 196,829 204,126 1921–23 … … 193,450 197,590 1922–23 … … 249,085 243,783 1923–24 … … 259,339 249,805 1924–25 … … 278,313 272,128 No comparable figures for the year 1913–14 or the years covered by the War are available.