The Upper Classes at Queen's College and King's College are fed by promotion from their own remove and lower classes as well as from those of four "District Schools", the latter in turn being "fed" by promotion from their own lower classes and from those of the "Lower Grade" Schools.
The Upper Classes of Queen's College and King's College are thus pyramided on ten schools, while, with the exception of St. Joseph's Junior School and St. Francis' School, each Grant in Aid School has an upper school of its own.
The Girls' Schools are happily circumstanced but, though small classes are educationally desirable they are a luxury for schools which find it difficult to maintain upper school staffs and the half-empty first classes in the attached table indicate, as I pointed out in my report for 1929, that there is no need for any increase in the secondary departments in English Schools.
Table showing Classes 1 and 2 in November 1930.
Class 1 Class 2 Total. Diocesan Boys School 17 34 51 St. Joseph's College 33 95 128 St. Paul's College 12 30 42 Wah Yan College 26 56 82 Wah Yan Branch School 0 18 18 Diocesan Girls School 11 17 28 French Convent School 10 20 30 Italian Convent School 14 19 33 St. Mary's School 11 10 21 St. Stephen's College for Girls 14 17 31 Queen's College 33 80 113 King's College 23 52 75 Belilios Public School 13 18 31To efficient Vernacular schools managed by charitable bodies, where education is free or fees nominal, subsidies are paid on the dollar for dollar basis. In rural districts schools established by the village elders are similarly assisted.
To efficient proprietary schools financial assistance is given in cases where otherwise the teacher will not realise a reasonable income.
Of the 688 Vernacular schools on the urban register in 1930 195 were subsidised and there were 93 subsidised schools out of the total of 169 in the rural districts.