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.

210 EDUCATIONAL SURVEY OF THE PHILIPPINES
TABLE 12.-THE AGE AT WHICH FILIPINO CHILDREN ATTEND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
[Percentages of boys and girls of different school ages enrolled in public schools]
Estimated Enrollment
number of in public Percentage
Ages children schools, Jan- enrolled in
1924 a uary, 1925 b public schools
(1) (2)
7-10 years:
Boys........................................... 724,000 236,545 32.7
Girls........................................... 696,000 196,651 28.3
1,420,000 433,196 30.5
11-13 years:
Boys........................................... 388,000 203,909 52.6
G irls........................................... 385,000 153,891 40.0
773,000 357,800 46.2
14-17 years:
Boys........................................... 435,000 166,338 38.2
G irls........................................... 435,000 95,483 21.9
870,000 261,821 30.1
7-17 years:
B oys........................................... 1,547,000 606,792 39.2
G irls........................................... 1,516,000 446,025 29.4
3,063,000 1,052,817 34.4
a Computed by applying to the population estimate of the Bureau of Commerce and
Industry for 1924, the same percentages that these groups bore to their total in the Census
of 1918.
b Computed by applying to the total annual enrollments for 1924 of boys and girls
separately, the percentages which these age-groups bore to their respective totals in the
age-grade census of January, 1925, made by the division superintendent for the Bureau of
Education. This age-grade census includes two-thirds of the enrollments for both boys and
girls separately, and every province in the Islands except Batanes which has approximately
1 per cent of the total enrollment.
NOTE.-Sources: 1918 Census, 1924 enrollment data of Bureau of Education and agegrade census data collected by Bureau of Education, January, 1925.
Note the large decrease in pupils of normal age in Grade VII. This
can only mean that from the first grade upward a very large number
of pupils are repeating at every level of the system. In Grade II only
three-tenths are of normal age, in Grade III one-fourth, in Grade IV,
Grade V, and Grade VI one-fifth, and in Grade VII one-sixth. The
movement of pupils through the elementary school apparently becomes
more and more irregular and discontinuous in successive grades.
Table 11 leaves no room for doubt as to the seriousness of the overage problem in the elementary school. Thirty-six per cent of the
children when judged on a reasonable standard are older than they
ought to be.
The conclusions from the tables presented thus far suggest that a
very considerable amount of the overageness in the schools may be due
to a large amount of failure and hence of "repeating."
Such facts substantiate the caption for this section. Elementaryschool children are predominantly adolescent or preadolescent. Because