The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Calculation of Attendance
Calculation of Attendance.
23. Attendance at a morning or afternoon meeting may not be reckoned for any scholar who has been under instruction in secular subjects less than two hours, * if above, or one hour and a half † if under, seven years of age; nor attendance at an evening meeting for any scholar who has been under similar instruction less than one hour.
24. Attendance of boys at military drill, under a competent instructor, or of girls at lessons in practical cookery, approved by the inspector, for not more than two hours a week, and 40 hours in the year, may, in a day school, be counted as school attendance.
25. Attendances may not be reckoned for any scholar in a day school under 3 or above 18, or, in an evening school, under 12 or above 21, years of age.
26. The average number in attendance for any period is found by adding together the attendances of all the scholars' for the same period, and dividing the sum by the number of times the school has met within the same period; the quotient is the average number in attendance.
27. In calculating the average number in attendance, the attendances of half-time scholars reckon for no more than those of other scholars.
* This may include an interval of 15 minutes for recreation during a meeting of 3 hours, or of 5 to 10 minutes in a shorter meeting,
† Not including any time allowed for recreation.