§ Mr. WHITELEYasked the President of the Board of Education the number of scholars attending the provided elementary and secondary schools, respectively?
§ Lord E. PERCYThe number of children on the registers of provided elementary schools during 1927–28 was 3,671,804. On 1st October, 1928, the number of full-time pupils in provided grant-aided secondary schools was 212,902.
§ Mr. WHITELEYasked the President of the Board of Education the number of scholars attending non-provided elementary and secondary schools, showing the number at each kind of denominational school?
§ Lord E. PERCYThe number of scholars on the registers of non-provided public elementary schools during 1927–28 was as follows:
Church of England schools 1,499,941 Wesleyan schools 24,277 Roman Catholic schools 365,624 Jewish schools 5,730 Other voluntary schools 43,687 Total 1,939,259 On 1st October, 1928, the number of full-time pupils in non-provided secondary schools in England and Wales was 180,279. Of these, 20,166 were in Roman Catholic schools. I regret that it would not be possible without a disproportionate amount of labour to give separate figures for schools of each of the various denominations other than Roman Catholic.
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§ Mr. WHITELEYasked the President of the Board of Education the percentage of scholars of secondary schools who succeed in obtaining a school-leaving certificate, and the percentage who matriculate, provided and non-provided?
§ Lord E. PERCYDuring 1927–28 the percentage of pupils who passed the School Certificate Examination to those who took the Examination from grant-aided secondary schools was as follows:
Per cent. Provided Schools … 73.0 Non-provided Schools … 69.1 Particulars of those who matriculates are not available.