present is entered each day upon the record. At the end of each month these numbers are averaged, which gives the average attendance for each month. These monthly averages are averaged at the end of each half year, giving two semi-annual averages each year. These being averaged, we have the annual average attendance.

The following table shows the average whole number, the average attendance, and the per cent. of attendance of the public sehools of all grades, for five years, ending July 31, 1860:

YEARS.

HIGH SCHOOLS.

Average
Whole Number.

23,768

24,274

24,988

25,484

25,315

The average per cent. of attendance in the High Schools, for five years, is about 95.5. These figures indicate a high degree of regularity of attendance. When it is considered that the pupils of these schools have to come from all parts of the city, and that girls constitute a large proportion of the whole number, I am disposed to think that not much, if any, further progress in this direction ought to be expected.

It appears by the following table that the Grammar Schools differ very materially with respect to the number of pupils admitted during the year. But the real disparity in this particular is far less than the table indicates. This apparent difference is due to the fact that some of the masters reported the number on the register at the beginning of the year, together with those afterwards admitted, which is the correct mode of reporting the admissions as intended in the design of the blanks. Others reported only those admitted in addition to the names on the register at the opening of the schools for the year:

The following table presents a comparative view of

the number and attendance of the Grammar and Primary pupils, for five years:

The average per cent. of attendance in the Grammar Schools, for five years, is 91.4; in the Primary Schools 82, the difference being 9.4. In some of the Grammar Schools the per cent. of attendance is quite high enough, indeed, rather too high, in my judgment. On the other hand, the attendance in a few Grammar Schools, and in a considerable number of Primary Schools, is not quite so high as ought to be expected.

The following table exhibits the number of Primary Schools and teachers, and the number of pupils to a teacher, for five years:

The above table is interesting as showing a remarkable degree of uniformity in the average number of pupils to a school, and also that the last average is fiftysix-precisely the number now fixed by the Regulations as the maximum for a school. The falling off in the whole number the last year, is due in part, probably, to the establishment of Catholic schools. And it is probable also that among the more intelligent parents, children are not sent to school at so early an age as in former years.

The following table shows the average attendance to a school, and the average per cent. of all the Primary Schools: