Vision of Britain | 1851 Census: Religion and Education

1851 Census of Great Britain, Religious Worship and Education. Scotland. Report and Tables, Table O : " Number of Day and Sabbath Schools and Scholars in each County".

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DESCRIPTION OF SCHOOLS.	No. of Schools. [1]	Number of Scholars
		Belonging to the Schools			Attending on the day of the Census
		Total. [2]	Males. [3]	Females. [4]	Total. [5]	Males. [6]	Females. [7]
DAY SCHOOLS	208	16,303	8,941	7,362	13,891	7,691	6,200
PUBLIC DAY SCHOOLS	105	10,355	5,705	4,650	8,959	4,989	3,970
PRIVATE DAY SCHOOLS	103	5,948	3,236	2,712	4,932	2,702	2,230
Classification of Public Schools: CLASS I.-SUPPORTED BY GENERAL OR LOCAL TAXATION	28	2,687	1,724	963	2,409	1,537	872
CLASS II.-SUPPORTED BY ENDOWMENTS	14	1,439	751	688	1,277	672	605
CLASS III.-SUPPORTED BY RELIGIOUS BODIES	41	3,529	1,947	1,582	3,056	1,702	1,354
CLASS IV.-OTHER PUBLIC SCHOOLS	22	2,700	1,283	1,417	2,217	1,078	1,139
CLASS I: Burgh Schools	9	835	571	264	770	530	240
CLASS I: Parochial Schools	18	1,774	1,088	686	1,572	950	622
CLASS I: Government School of Design	1	78	65	13	67	57	10
CLASS II: Endowed Schools	14	1,439	751	688	1,277	672	605
CLASS III: Established Church	14	1,145	493	652	998	439	559
CLASS III: United Presbyterian Church	2	163	97	66	148	89	59
CLASS III: Free Church	20	1,897	1,152	745	1,608	983	625
CLASS III: Episcopal Church	3	120	77	43	109	69	40
CLASS III: Roman Catholics	2	204	128	76	193	122	71
CLASS IV: Ragged Schools	3	196	106	90	186	98	88
CLASS IV: Factory Schools	2	198	124	74	170	122	48
CLASS IV: Subscription Schools of no specific character	17	2,306	1,053	1,253	1,861	858	1,003
SABBATH SCHOOLS	216	20,830	9,414	11,416	15,998	7,199	8,799
Established Church	52	4,984	2,171	2,813	3,903	1,722	2,181
Reformed Presbyterian Church	5	357	163	194	296	128	168
Original Secession Church	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Relief Church	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
United Presbyterian Church	43	4,816	2,250	2,566	3,719	1,679	2,040
Free Church	62	5,849	2,662	3,187	4,530	2,091	2,439
Episcopal Church	3	186	92	94	125	73	52
Independents or Congregationalists	4	313	132	181	220	86	134
Baptists	2	87	30	57	76	26	50
Wesleyan Methodists	3	357	197	160	273	141	132
Primitive Methodists	1	46	29	17	26	19	7
New Church	1	30	14	16	25	11	14
Evangelical Union	3	255	121	134	193	92	101
Isolated Congregations	27	2,385	988	1,397	1,784	761	1,023
Roman Catholics	10	1,195	596	599	828	370	458

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Comments:

1	The Scottish national totals presented here are totals computed from the county data.

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

By the term 'School' is here meant a distinct Establishment. Thus a School for Boys and Girls, if under one general management and conducted in one range of Buildings, is regarded as only one School, although the tuition may be carried out in separate compartments of the Building under separate superintendence.

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