The School System of Norway

Name: The School System of Norway
Author: Anderson, David Allen

Anderson, David Allen

Education -- Norway; School management and organization -- Norway

The compulsory school laws which operate in Norway determine the age
(seven years) at which children shall enter school and the regularity of
their attendance. With this in mind, it is readily understood that as a
rule each class marches steadily forward, one grade each year, until the
completion of the school life. As a consequence there is but little
variation in the ages of pupils doing the work of any certain grade, and
the proportion of pupils of normal age in the several grades is very
large. In order to illustrate definitely, a concrete situation is
presented in Table III, which shows the exact conditions existing at a
certain time in one of their representative cities.


TABLE III [Transcriber note: table split to fit]

Table showing the age of pupils on April 30, 1908, in the several
grades, also the number in each Grade and relation to normal age.

                             Age and year of birth.
Grade No.
      of     6-7  7-8  8-9 9-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17
    Classes 1902 1901 1900 1899  1898  1897  1896  1895  1894  1893  1892 Total
 1    134     27 3047 1790  164    10                                     5038
 2    130          33 2730 1795   263    18                               4839
 3    126               22 2564  1730   319    36     5     2             4678
 4    122                    33  2287  1620   393    77    14     1       4425
 5    115                          32  2009  1528   511   136     6       4222
 6    105                           1    39  1856  1342   569    80       3878
 7     90                                      28  1582  1129   231   3   3003
 X[2]   2                                            20    22     1         43
 T[1] 824     27 3080 4542 4556  4323  3996  3841  3537  1962   139   3  30186
Per
ct. 1908     0.1 10.2 15.1 15.1  14.3  13.2  12.7  11.7   6.5   1.1   ----
    1907     0.1 11.3 15.3 15.0  13.5  13.1  12.6  11.9   6.2   1.0  --    ---
    1906     0.1 10.9 15.5 14.6  14.0  13.4  12.5  11.6   6.6   0.8  --    ---
    1905     0.1 11.2 15.3 14.7  14.0  13.6  12.7  11.9   6.4   0.1  --    ---

             No. of Pupils of     Per Cent. of
               Normal Age.         Normal Age.
Grade      Under  Norm.  Over  Under  Norm.  Over
 1            27   4837   174    0.5   96.0   3.5
 2            33   4525   281    0.7   93.5   5.8
 3            22   4294   362    0.5   91.9   7.6
 4            33   3907   485    0.8   88.3  10.9
 5            32   3537   653    0.8   83.8  15.4
 6            31   3198   649    0.8   82.2  17.0
 7            28   2801   234    0.9   91.1   8.0
 X[2]                42     1    ---   97.7   2.3
 T[1].       206  27141  2839
Per
ct. 1908    ----   ----  ----    0.7   89.9   9.4
    1907    ----   ----  ----    0.8   90.9   8.3
    1906    ----   ----  ----    0.9   91.8   7.3
    1905    ----   ----  ----    1.1   91.7   7.2

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The School System of Norway

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