HC Deb 08 April 1957 vol 568 cc97-8W
Mr. G. M. Thomson

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of pupils of secondary school age are in senior secondary courses for each of the education authorities in Scotland.

Mr. Maclay

The following table shows for each education authority area at 16th January, 1956 (the latest date for which the figures are available), the percentage of pupils who were following senior secondary courses in relation to the total number of pupils in junior and senior secondary schools. The figures include

Mr. Iain Macleod

The following table gives the information desired:

all pupils in secondary classes in public schools.

Counties
Aberdeen … … 40
Angus … … 39
Argyll … … 35
Ayr … … 42
Banff … … 46
Berwick … … 40
Bute … … 25
Caithness … … 35
Clackmannan … … 31
Dumfries … … 31
Dunbarton … … 45
Bast Lothian … … 36
Fife … … 33
Inverness … … 46
Kincardine … … 40
Kirkcudbright … … 34
Lanark … … 36
Midlothian … … 33
Moray and Nairn … … 37
Orkney … … 37
Peebles … … 39
Perth and Kinross … … 38
Renfrew … … 46
Ross and Cromarty … … 37
Roxburgh … … 36
Selkirk … … 58
Stirling … … 32
Sutherland … … 50
West Lothian … … 39
Wigtown … … 33
Zetland … … 29
Burghs
Aberdeen … … 27
Dundee … … 35
Edinburgh … … 39
Glasgow … … 51

The average for Scotland as a whole is 40 per cent.