A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

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are over 77,000 young people in the elementary system who are more
than sixteen years old, and 5,000 who are 20 or more years of age.
The facts concerning the ages of Filipino children are given in detail
on Tables 10 and 11.
A fact of central importance is the difference between the percentage
of pupils of normal age in Grade I and Grade VII. Even in the
first grade less than half of the children are of normal age. Due, no
doubt, in large part to late entrance into the school, the situation is
bad enough in the initial primary grade. But the age status becomes
progressively worse and, to a startling degree, in the succeeding grades.