§ 69. Sir J. Vaughan-Morganasked the Minister of Education what percentage of candidates taking the 11-plus examination in Surrey are offered grammar school
PUPILS CHOSEN FOR PLACES IN SELECTIVE SCHOOLS AT THE AGE OF 11 PLUS 1963 (WHERE NOT OTHERWISE STATED) — Surrey Buckinghamshire (1) Hertfordshire (1) Kent (4) Sussex, East (8) Sussex, West Number of all pupils in maintained schools, in the "appropriate" age group, in January 14,918 6,481 11,525 … 3,348 4,704 Number of pupils from non-maintained schools applying for places 3,043 672 830 … 330 361 Total number of "eligible" pupils 17,961 7,153 12,355 23,325 (5) 3,678 5,065 Pupils chosen for selective places in: maintained grammar schools 2,789 1,081 2,323 2,897 (6) 686 661 grammar streams in bilateral or multilateral schools 596 183 47 410 — 180 (9) direct grant and independent schools 468 — 282 251 13 19 technical schools — 539 (2) 417 2,098 (7) — 80 Total number of pupils chosen 3,853 1,803 3,069 (3) 5,638 699 940 Pupils chosen as percentage of "eligible" pupils 21.5 25.2 24.8 24.2 20.9 20.0 NOTES: (1) 1962. (2) Includes 93 places in technical streams of bilateral schools. (3) Including about 50 places filled by pupils in a younger age group not included in the number of 12,355 "eligible" pupils. (4) Includes Canterbury and 245 "eligible" pupils from East Sussex. (5) A division of "eligible" pupils into those from maintained and non-maintained schools is not readily available, but it could be taken as approximately 90 per cent. for pupils from maintained and 10 per cent. from non-maintained schools. (6) Excludes about 80 places in boarding and out-of-county grammar schools. (7) Includes 60 places in technical streams of bilateral schools. (8) In addition to 2,559 pupils (out of 3,678 "eligible" ones) tested so far this year, there will be another 81 pupils from maintained and 29 from non-maintained schools who will be tested next month and from whom 2 will be selected for additional places in a direct grant grammar school and some for additional places in maintained grammar schools. (9) For "top streams" in bilateral schools.