Pupils (Statistics)

HC Deb 08 July 1948 vol 453 cc44-5W

Mr. Haydn Davies

asked the Minister of Education the number of boys and girls, respectively, in primary and secondary schools on 1st January, 1948; and the number of such children who were in infants' schools and departments at that time.

Mr. Tomlinson

The analysis of the figures for January, 1948, is not yet complete, but the following provisional figures give the information asked for as nearly as it is available.

PUPILS IN MAINTAINED AND ASSISTED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS (EXCLUDING NURSERY AND SPECIAL SCHOOLS)—JANUARY 1948.
Boys.	Girls.
2,743,000.	2,612,000.
Boys under 5.	Girls under 5.
93,000.	86,000.
Boys aged 5–8.	Girls aged 5–8.
795,000.	752,000.

Mr. Haydn Davies

asked the Minister of Education the number of boys and girls, respectively, classified as seniors, juniors and infants and under 5's, respectively, covered by the estimates of requirements of teachers for the years 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952 and 1953 set out in Table 1 of Circular 174, dated 16th June, 1948.

Mr. Tomlinson

The following are the numbers of children on which the estimates of teachers required in 1948–53 set out in Table 1 of Circular 174, have been based.

No significant change in the proportion of boys to girls, which is at present 51 to 49, is expected. As stated in the Circular, these forecasts are subject to a considerable margin of error and may need to be adjusted in the light of further experience.

Sir E. Graham-Little

asked the Minister of Education how many children entered the national schools; and how many left these schools during each of the four years since the passage of the Education Act, 1944.

Mr. Tomlinson

My Department does not collect separate statistics about children entering school. The number of children leaving maintained and assisted schools, excluding those transferring to other schools, was 489,000 in the year ending 31st July, 1946, and 347,000 in the year ending 31st July, 1947. No figures were collected for the year 1944–45, figures for 1947–48 will not be available before the end of the present year.