AVERAGE EXPENSES of each SCHOLAR at the CENTRAL SCHOOL during 1882.
Expenditure, $15,079.35
Deduct School Fees, 4,084.00
$10,995.35
Total Expense of the School,
Average Expense of each Scholar calculated by the Total Enrolment, $19.22
Average Daily Attendance, 28.20
GEO. H. BATESON WRIGHT, Head Master.
ENROLMENT AND ATTENDANCE, 1882.
CENTRAL SCHOOL.
MONTH NUMBER OF SCHOLARS NUMBER OF ATTENDANCES NUMBER OF SCHOOL DAYS AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE REMARKS January 390 8,786 24 366.08 February 372 2,916 8 364.50 March 441 5,062 12 421.83 April 443 6,597 16 412.31 May 440 10,123 25 404.92 June 436 10,031 25 401.24 July 432 10,485 26 403.27 August 436 2,418 6 403.00 September 422 10,128 26 389.54 October 414 9,906 26 381.00 November 413 9,557 25 382.28 December 404 7,655 20 382.75 Total 93,964 241 389.89Total Number of ATTENDANCES during 1882, 93,964
Number of School Days during 1882, 241
Average DAILY ATTENDANCE during 1882, 389.89
Total Number of SCHOLARS at this School during 1882, 572
GEO. H. BATESON WRIGHT, Head Master.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 20th February, 1883.
SIR,-I have the honour to forward herewith the Annual Report on Education and the Blue Book returns for 1882.
2. The total number of Schools subject to supervision by the Government amounted in the year 1882 to 80, as compared with 72 in 1881, 63 in 1880, 53 in 1879 and 47 in 1878. The total number of scholars enrolled during the year 1882 in Schools, subject to supervision and annual examination by the Government, amounted to 5182 as compared with 4872 enrolled in 1881, 3886 in 1880, 3460 in 1879, and 3152 in 1878. It is evident, therefore, that the number of Schools and the number of scholars, subject to Government supervision and examination, is steadily increasing from year to year.
3. These Schools, subject to Government supervision and examination, may roughly be divided into two classes, viz, secular (Government) Schools and denominational (Missionary) Schools. The secular schools are under the entire control of the Government and supported, in one way or other, by fixed monthly payments, whilst the denominational (Missionary) Schools are under Government inspection throughout the year and annually subsidized by the Government on the basis of definite results, in fixed subjects, ascertained in each case through the annual examination of each individual scholar by the Inspector of Schools.
4. The proportion of boys to girls, enrolled in the Schools under Government supervision, deserves attention, the more so as there are but two or three Girls-schools in existence in this Colony apart from those under Government supervision. In the latter Schools we had in 1882 but 1241 girls, as compared with 3941 boys, whilst the Census of 1881 showed but a slight difference in respect of sex, for there were 10,629 Chinese boys and 9,940 Chinese girls returned as under sixteen years of age.
5. Of the 80 Schools under Government supervision, there is but a small minority teaching English. The vast majority of the children in the Colony learn Chinese only. In 1882 there were 64 Schools in which a purely Chinese education is given, but in most of these Schools Christian teaching is superadded to the teaching of Confucianism under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme.
6. As regards the range of subjects comprised by the education given in the various Schools under Government supervision, the Government Central School stands forth, facile princeps, among all the educational establishments of the Colony, owing to the unrivalled range of subjects it comprises.
7. As regards the Government Central School, I have but little to add to the Report of the new Head-Master, Mr. WRIGHT, beyond detailing the results of the examination. This examination was this time conducted by me in a far more searching and comprehensive manner than before, as, by an understanding with the Head-Master, the examination was not arranged, as formerly, as a mere pass-examination, confined to the limited range of subjects required by the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, nor merely on the basis of the rule of 200 attendances.