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Of the three outlying schools Tai Po had a maximum enrolment of 92 with an average attendance of 77. The figures at Un Long were 64 and 47. The Head Master of the latter school complains that malaria had affected the summer attendance.
It is hoped that before very long these two schools will have a District School accessible from both localities.
Owing to its insularity Cheung Chau boys will have to seek promotion to higher classes in Hong Kong schools. This school, once the architectural Cinderella of Government Schools is rejoicing in its new building. It is a sorry typhoon that does not benefit somebody. The maximum enrolment was 74 with an average attendance of 65.
Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians.-The maximum enrolment was 131 with an average attendance of 119. This school is in the proverbial state which calls for no particular comment. Numbers were slightly higher and nobody was ill; they were all vaccinated in October. Games were as usual good. Of the 16 boys in Class 4 thirteen succeeded in getting out of it and of the remaining 104 boys in the school only two failed to achieve promotion.
Belilios Public School.-The maximum enrolment was 571 with an average attendance of 505. In spite of the unhappy lack of space outside the classrooms the extraneous activities of the school are many.
The policy of increasing the amount and standard of English has been continued with good results. The school is approaching the end of a transition period. The old institution has gone and the day has long passed when young women of 18 or 19 left what was once a purely vernacular department to waste eighteen months over a smattering of elementary English which was soon forgotten in the interests of married life.
The maximum enrolment at the five British Schools was 466 against 436 the previous year but the increase in numbers was confined to the two Kowloon schools, the figures at the island schools being slightly lower than in 1928.
At the Central British School, where the maximum enrolment and average attendance were 194 and 141, one pupil passed the London Matriculation and three the Matriculation of the University of Hong Kong.
At the end of the year examinations, 71% were successful.
Promotion from the junior schools is effected by the heads in co-operation with the Head Master of the Central British School, which continues to do excellent work and in the main, as in the case of any school, this must be attributed to the Head Master and his Staff.