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THE ,
FIFTY-SECOND REPORT
(MTHE
COMMISSIONERS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION
IN IRELAND,
FOR THE YEAR 1885. I
TO
HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN GATVEPBELL GORDON, EARL OFl
ABERDEEN,
LOUD LIEUTENANT-GENERAL AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OP IRELAND.
May it please your Excellency,
1. We, the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland,
submit to your Excellency this our Fifty-second Report. In this
Report all statements connected with the expenditure of the public
grants refer to the year ended 3lst March, 1886; but the statistics
connected with the number of schools, number of pupils on the rolls,
the average daily attendance, and with the results of the Inspectors',,
examinations, refer to the year ended 31st December, 1885.
Schools and Attendance.
2. On the 31st of December, 1885, we had 7,936 schools on the increase of
Operation List. During the year 106 schools, most of which
had been inoperative for a considerable time, were struck off the
Roll or suspended, or became amalgamated with other National
schools ; 210 schools were brought into operation—viz., 104 non-
vested, and 106 vested, giving a net increase of 104 schools as
compared with 1884. Twenty-three of the schools which were
brought into operation had been previously in connexion with the
Board, but for various causes the grants had been withdrawn-
3. The number of pupils on rolls who made at least one attend-
ance within the last fourteen days (fortnight) of the month imme- days of
diately preceding the Results Examination in each school during results
the year ended 31st December, 1885, was 712,512.* '
4. The average daily attendance of pupils for the year 1885 was Increase in
502,454, showing an increase of 9,526 as compared with that of ^tSLce
1884.
5. The per-centage of average attendance of pupils for tlie
year to the number on the rolls who attended on any of the last
fourteen days of the month preceding the annual examinations
was 70 5. in 1884 this per-centage was 70'8. The per-centages
in 1885 were—in England and Wales, 76'4; Scotland, 76'9.
* The number of pupils on rolls who made any attendance at our schools between
1st of January and 31st of December, 1885, was 1.075,604.
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