Secondary Schools (Four and Five-Year Courses)

HC Deb 11 December 1961 vol 651 cc16-7W

Mr. Lawson

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of school children in each of the separate Scottish education authority areas was allocated in the 1959–60 session to a four or five years' course.

Mr. Maclay

This information, in the precise form asked for by the hon. Member, is not readily available. The percentage of all pupils in the first year of secondary schools under education authorities who were in the first year of four or five-year courses at 15th January, 1960, is as follows:—

Education Authority			Percentage
Counties
Aberdeen	…	…	45
Angus	…	…	37
Argyll	…	…	22
Ayr	…	…	32
Banff	…	…	35
Berwick	…	…	33
Bute	…	…	31
Caithness	…	…	40
Clackmannan	…	…	21
Dumfries	…	…	25
Dunbarton	…	…	39
East Lothian	…	…	46
Fife	…	…	27
Inverness	…	…	39
Kincardine	…	…	31
Kirkcudbright	…	…	30
Lanark	…	…	32
Midlothian	…	…	29
Moray and Nairn	…	…	37
Orkney	…	…	32
Peebles	…	…	46
Perth and Kinross	…	…	29
Renfrew	…	…	36
Ross and Cromarty	…	…	30
Roxburgh	…	…	35
Selkirk	…	…	41
Stirling	…	…	25
Sutherland	…	…	39
West Lothian	…	…	30
Wigtown	…	…	26
Zetland	…	…	25
Burghs
Aberdeen	…	…	22
Dundee	…	…	27
Edinburgh	…	…	35
Glasgow	…	…	46