HC Deb 20 November 1952 vol 507 c205W
133. Mr. G. Longden

asked the Minister of Education how many pupils are being removed from grammar schools after the age of 15 and before they have completed the syllabus; and what happens to the places which are thus vacated.

Miss Horsbrugh

During the educational year 1950–51, the latest for which figures are available, about 65 per cent. of the boys and 67 per cent. of the girls in grant-aided grammar schools left before their seventeenth birthdays. It does not necessarily follow that accommodation is left vacant.