Over 900 Students at the Colleges on the Bund; Night Schools Busy A total of 8809 pupils (1232 foreign, 7,577 Chinese) are enrolled in Municipal Council schools during the current term, the Education Department of the SMC. revealed yesterday. The Chinese pupils may be further sub-divided into 2,564 secondary school students and 5,013 primary school students.
While such figures ordinarily have but little appeal to any but those with a taste for mathematics, this table is not without it interest. For instance, take the primary school for Chinese at 375 Seymour Road. So limited is the accommodation— due to the hostilities—that the school has had to be divided into two sections, a morning session, with 337 pupils, and an afternoon session with 342 pupils. In addition, there is the night school, with no less than 460 pupils.
The largest number of Chinese Pupils in one schoo) are those attending the primary schoo! at 199 Cunningham Road, no less than 781 of them; they are closely followed, however, by the 633 at the 1107 Connaught Road school, Foreign Schools The foreign municipal schools are five in number, but two of them are being conducted together at
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