The Rev. LI. Williamsasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education what was the percentage of 85W primary school pupils who gained entrance into grammar schools in each of the thirteen counties of Wales.
§ Sir E. BoyleIn January, 1956, the proportion. of 13 year old pupils in eleven of the administrative counties of Wales in grammar schools maintained and assisted by local education authorities, or in the grammar streams of bilateral schools, or holding places at direct grant grammar schools for which the local education authority was responsible, is given below. The figure for Breconshire is not comparable because 26 per cent. of the children of secondary school age there go to comprehensive schools. In Anglesey all children go to comprehensive schools.
Local education authority Grammar school percentage Caernarvonshire … … 44.7 Cardiganshire … … 63.3 Carmarthenshire … … 34.5 Denbighshire … … 34.1 Flintshire … … 26.0 Glamorgan … … 28.9 Merioneth … … 63.5 Monmouthshire … … 26.7 Montgomeryshire … … 39.6 Pembrokeshire … … 44.6 Radnorshire … … 33.0