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Pupil Numbers 1900s

How many pupils at the school?  Has the number of children changed?

Read the Head Masters' Log to find out.

  1900s

Head's Log

We can find out how many children were at the school from the Head Masters' Log.

12.6.00 ...Certificate received for 48 boys & 42 girls.  Grant £340.16.3.
24.5.01 ...eight teachers to 66 pupils...
17.7.01 All the pupils (33 girls & 33 boys) and all the teachers (five women & three men) were present when the Registers were marked this morning...
2.9.01 ...The number of pupils admitted was 29 boys & 23 girls...
24.01.02 The number of children present in school today is 62; absent 4; total on registers 66...The full staff of teachers is in residence, namely eight qualified teachers and one learner...
14.02.02 ...one of the pupils absent on sick leave, died today in the Preston Infirmary.
21.02.02 ...There are 65 pupils on the registers, of whom 64 are in school today and one...is at home, or in hospital...
12.09.02 ...One pupil has left during the holidays and one new pupil has been admitted this week, the total number on the register being 69, as before...
28.08.03 School reassembled yesterday after six week's holiday.  Six new pupils were admitted. When the Registers mere marked this morning there were 55 pupils present and 14 absent...one is kept away by scarlet fever, one by measles, two by surgical operations and one by hip-joint disease.  The remaining nine have been kept at home by their parents, in most cases without asking leave or offering excuses...
11.09.03 ...A new pupil has been admitted during the week, making the total on the Register 70.
18.9.03 ...the number of pupils on the books is 71 of whom 66 are present and five absent...
2.10.03 Another new pupil has been admitted this week.  Total on Register 72.
5.10.03 ...we have today isolated five suspected cases of whooping cough in the hospital. Bessie Moffatt is not deaf & is to be discharged under a certificate from the Medical Officer.
9.10.03 The School Attendance Officer from Carlisle brought in today a new pupil, aged 12, named Robert Cooper, & took Bessie Moffatt away.
23.10.03 ...Three new pupils have been admitted this week, making the total on the Register 75.
5.12.03 ...the admission of a new pupil & the return to school of five chidlren from the whooping cough wards.
10.12.03 The number of pupils on the Register is 76 - fourteen new pupils having been admitted this term, thus necessitating the formation of two new infant's classes.
18.12.03 School broke up today for a month's holiday...Only one pupil leaves in the ordinary course of this term - Mary Ellen Dalgleash, who was the first pupil to enter this school...
18.1.04 School re-opened today after a month's holiday.  During the holiday I have dismissed John T Wilkinson, whose parent's have removed from Kendal to Blackpool, the Blackpool Education Committee having declined to accept responsibility for his fees...One other pupils has left school, aged 16, and three new pupils have today been admitted, making the total on the books 77, of whom 64 are present and 13 absent.  The number of teachers remains unchanged, namely three men and six women.
25.1.04 When the registers were marked this morning there were 73 pupils present and 4 absent... John Wainman...after surgical treatment for his deafness, has been sent back to  a hearing school for a month's trial...
28.4.04 The School year end of the 30th April...There are 77 children on the Registers of whom 75 are present and two are absent on sick leave.  Nine pupils have left during the year and 19 new pupils have been admitted - an increase of ten.

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