January,
MONTH.
ENROLMENT and ATTENDANCE at the CENTRAL SCHOOL during 1880.
NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER AVERAGE DAILY OF SCHOLARS. OF ATTENDANCES. OF SCHOOL DAYS. ATTENDANCE 416 9,901 24 396.04 465 10,156 24 423.16 456 8,461 20 423.05 447 10,236 26 413.69 441 10,756 27 409.59 129 11,059 4 406.75 413 1,627 26 378.07 420 9,830 26 355.27 384 9,237 26 355.11 381 9,283 24 350.54 378 8,413Total Number of ATTENDANCEs during 1880, 98,909
Number of School Days during 1880...... 252
Average DAILY ATTENDANCE during 1880, 392.496
Total Number of SCHOLARS at this School during 1880,...... 588
There has been a steady increase during the last four years in the general number of Schools and scholars subject to Government supervision.
3. Distinguishing, however, the Schools under Government management from the Schools under denominational managers, to whom the Government gives Grants-in-aid on the basis of Government inspection and examination, we had in 1880 in the Government Schools 2,078 scholars, as compared with 2,043 in 1879, 2,101 in 1878, and 2,148 in 1877, whilst we had in 1880 in the denominational Grant-in-aid Schools 1,808 scholars, as compared with 1,417 in 1879, 1,051 in 1878, and 996 in 1877. There has therefore been a steady increase during the last four years in the number of scholars attending denominational Grant-in-aid Schools, subject to Government examination, and an almost continuous decrease in the number of scholars attending Government Schools, although the number of Government Schools was gradually increased from 30 in 1877 and 1878 to 31 in 1879, and 36 in 1880.
開遞年增益一時千四十名三八有八百九於千百名三百六年一八八百七於千七十時千百十之四年十名有八八年四其國可十時千百八於百十時年學家見四有八五年一千七六有634六九千之理之有時時年賞百八千於察倘間年八數之各九有有時之七百八~助將時百則義聖百一一有各十七百千賞國有七遞學會九千千一聖七十七百八者家三十年學學義十零四千今年八十百九較白三十八加童學名十-百學有時年十別義一時卽數童由一十名七八千二有時則千有一則遞數觀一名名學一千二有國百十八年遞之千童百千二八間百漸年四八千千於四百零十一七減漸年百八八一十零四零理義年千十惟增間七百百千八一十七之學時八七國而國十七七八名名三十有百年家國家七十十百但一名八學國三十十一館自察時年年十助八千-童考-
[No.16.]
ALEXANDER FALCONER,
Acting Head Master.
AVERAGE EXPENSE of each SCHOLAR at the CENTRAL SCHOOL during 1880.
Total Expenditure, $16,366.57
Deduct School Fees, &c., $3,968.10
$11,398.47
Total Expense,....... Average Expense of each Scholar per No. on Roll, $19.38
Average Attendance, ............. 29.01
ALEXANDER FALCONER,
Acting Head Master.
INSPECTORATE OF SCHOOLS,
HONGKONG, 28th April, 1881.
SIR,
I have the honour to forward to you the Annual Report on Education and the Blue Book returns for the year 1880.
2. The total number of Schools subject to supervision of the Government amounted to 63 in 1880, as compared with 50 in 1879, 47 in 1878, and 45 in 1877. The total number of scholars subject to supervision and annual examination by the Government amounted to 3,886 in 1880, as compared with 3,460 in 1879, 3,152 in 1878, and 3,144 in 1877. There has therefore been a steady increase during the last four years in the total number of Schools and scholars subject to Government supervision.
將一千八百八版籍學童數目附呈總數則見於一千查核者查較學童由國家管理每年監督學院歐全有八四百五百十百較家謹港四百十七十七三八則管將十七七十間十間十見轄全五十間八於九於年於一時一書所叉年一時千時千有千館有時千有八有八六八查國
4. But whilst there has been thus a continuous steady increase during the last four years in the total number of Schools and scholars subject to the supervision of the Government, the population of the Colony has also been increasing, and although the number of native Schools, unaided and uncontrolled by the Government, has also steadily increased, I do not think that we have reduced, to any appreciable extent, the number of children in the Colony (from 6 to 15 years of age) for whom there are no Schools of any sort provided. I calculate the number of such uneducated children in the Colony, for whose education no provision is made, to amount still to about 14,000.
5. As regards the education of girls, which continues to be strangely neglected in Hongkong, the number of girls in Government Schools fell from 257 in 1877 to 235 in 1878, to 179 in 1879, and to 138 in 1880. The cause of this steady decrease in the number of girls attending Government Schools is the natural objection the Chinese have to men teaching in and superintending Girls'-schools, in consequence of which the Chinese much prefer to send their girls to the denominational Girls'-schools, which, though subject to Government supervision and examination, are taught and managed by Ladies. In these Grant-in-aid Schools, the number of girls steadily advanced from 343 in 1878 to 431 in 1879, and 561 in 1880. But this number is still out of all proportion to the number of girls for whose education provision ought to be made.
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