HC Deb 28 February 1962 vol 654 cc148-9W
Mr. Gourlay

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state, for each education authority, the percentage of each promotion group transferred to senior secondary courses of education at each transfer date for the years 1957, 1959 and 1961, and the number of pupils transferred from junior secondary to senior secondary courses by each authority in the corresponding years.

Mr. Maclay

The information about transfer from primary to secondary education is not readily available in the precise form asked for by the hon. Member. The following table, however, shows the percentage of all pupils in the first year of secondary schools under education authorities who were in the first year of senior secondary courses at 15th January in the years 1957, 1959 and 1961. The table also shows, by education authority areas, the number of pupils who were transferred from junior secondary schools to senior secondary schools in sessions 1956–57

Education Authority Percentage of all pupils in the first year of secondary schools who were in the first year of four or five-year courses Number of pupils transferred from junior secondary to senior secondary courses
As at 15th January, 1957 As at 15th January, 1959 As at 15th January, 1961 Session 1956–57 Session 1958–59
COUNTIES
Aberdeen 41 44 39 9
Angus 32 31 38 1 21
Argyll 18 25 40 55 50
Ayr 32 32 30 49 55
Banff 36 33 43 7 2
Berwick 28 28 37 9 8
Bute 14 34 32 4 6
Caithness 34 35 49 4
Clackmannan 25 24 18 1
Dumfries 25 25 32 14 15
Dunbarton 36 38 39 27 31
East Lothian 39 39 48 6 12
Fife 25 25 24 95 71
Inverness 33 33 39 13 12
Kincardine 25 33 34 5 3
Kirkcudbright 26 30 41 9
Lanark 29 31 32 83 97
Midlothian 30 29 33 1 2
Moray and Nairn 28 30 36 13 16
Orkney 28 34 34 11 15
Peebles 36 31 35 4
Perth and Kinross 31 27 34 16 111
Renfrew 37 39 37 12 43
Ross and Cromarty 28 31 36 7 9
Roxburgh 33 34 32 2 9
Selkirk 47 40 42 3 3
Stirling 24 26 23 80 129
Sutherland 39 44 39 1 4
West Lothian 33 33 29 24 63
Wigtown 25 29 29 3 1
Zetland 27 29 21 2 4
BURGHS
Aberdeen 19 16 24 25 18
Dundee 24 25 26 6 32
Edinburgh 31 34 30 138 106
Glasgow 43 46 46 154 118