HC Deb 11 February 1954 vol 523 cc163-4W
111. Miss Lee

asked the Minister of Education how many children attending grammar schools in Staffordshire left school at the age of 15 years in the last three years for which figures are available; and what was the number and proportion of children who completed the full grammar school course in these same years.

Miss Horsbrugh

During the educational year 1952–53 258 children left grammar schools wholly maintained by the Staffordshire local education authority before reaching their 16th birthday. The comparable figures for 1951–52 and 1950–51 were 249 and 287 respectively.

As regards the second part of the Question, the numbers of children on the registers of these schools who were aged in January, 1952, and 17 in January, 1953, were 666 and 371, or 48.6 per cent. and 27.1 per cent. respectively of the number aged 13 in January, 1949. The numbers aged 16 in January, 1951, and in January, 1952, were 675 and 325, or 46.6 per cent. and 22.4 per cent. respectively of the number aged 13 in January, 1948.

112. Miss Lee

asked the Minister of Education how many 13-year-old children in Staffordshire attend grammar schools, modern secondary schools, technical schools and comprehensive schools.

Miss Horsbrugh

In January, 1953, of the 13-year-old children on the registers of secondary schools maintained by the Staffordshire local education authority 8,622 were in secondary modern, 1,635 in secondary grammar, 161 in secondary technical and none in comprehensive schools. These figures do not include Staffordshire childrenattending schools elsewhere.