Class.
From the above Table we see that in the Grant-in-Aid Schools the proportion of girls to boys has been steadily improving since 1873, and that in these Schools the girls form now nearly one half of the whole number of children in school. But although in the Grant-in-Aid Schools the normal proportion of girls and boys will in all probability be reached in a few years, the case is very different in the other Schools of the Colony. Whilst in the Grant-in-Aid Schools the proportion of girls to boys is nearly 1 to 2, it is in the Government Schools like 1 to 18. Taking further into consideration all the known private Schools in the Colony, I find there are altogether 2,138 boys and 80 girls reported as having attended private Schools, not under the supervision of the Government. Accordingly we had, in the year 1886, altogether as many as 6,299 boys and only 1,763 girls under instruction in Schools of all classes, whilst it is pretty certain that there are nearly as many girls of the proper school-age in the Colony as there are boys. The needs of female education require therefore an extension of school accommodation. There is no room to doubt that the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, though expanding its sphere rather slowly, will gradually succeed in supplying the actual demands of female education in the Colony so far as the mass of the Chinese population is concerned. But as regards Schools for European children, whose education requires a more expensive staff and costly house accommodation, the Grant-in-Aid Scheme does not possess the same capabilities, because the demand of such special education, though urgent, is small and hedged in by various difficulties.
8. The results of the annual examination of the Schools under the supervision of the Government will be found detailed in the Tables appended to this Report, and, as far as the Government Central School is concerned, in the Report of its Headmaster. which will be found below. A few supplementary statistical details and general observations regarding the principal Schools and Classes of Schools may be of interest.
9. The Government Central School was examined on the principles adopted several years ago and stated in former reports. The examination papers were set by the Headmaster and revised by myself. The papers of the scholars were corrected and marked by the Headmaster and then forwarded to me to form an independent opinion thereon. With the exception of the marks allotted in the case of reading and in the case of all the subjects of the Anglo-Chinese Classes, (when the Headmaster noted results in consultation with myself), the subjoined Tables exhibit the results of the examination according to the Headmaster's own valuation of the merits of each paper.
Total No.
Examined.
Passed.
GOVERNMENT CENTRAL SCHOOL-NUMBER of Boys PASSED in EACH SUBJECT in 1886.
Reading..
Dictation.
Arithmetic.
English.
English into
Chinese.
Chinese into
Grammar.
Geography.
Map-drawing.
Composition.
History.
Euclid.
Algebra.
Mensuration.
Intelligence.
General
I...........
35
29 31
17
18
II.,.
30 27
29
26
23
25
24
30
25
25
35
32
28
23
13
17
17
23
26
19
16
24 29
21
19
14
19
III.,...
IV.,
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24
18
22
9
9
17
22
42
12
41
30
35
39
38
V.,
35
VI.,
29
VII.,
VIII.,
37 37
39
IX.,
6 to 8 5 2
13 2 1 2 3 4
33
33
33
17
29
26
27
13
6
28
37
36
31
32
39
39
39 29
63 62
47
47. 44
24 24 23
61
62
51
38
X.,
XI........
47
24
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Total,... 405
384 391 332 277 340
357
266
207 249 119
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39
52
43
14
24
2 8 8 8 & 18 & 19
20
9
19
20
11 11 14
41
33
33
22
32
29
21
30.36
35 35
3 2 69 859
40 38
28
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32
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26
32
36
36
38
60
59
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