Vision of Ireland | 1851 Census: Education

1851 Census of Great Britain, Education. England and Wales. Report and Tables, Table 2 : " Number of Day and Sunday Schools in the 624 Districts or Unions, classified according to their sources of maintenance".

Show England Dep table	County Durham RegC

DESCRIPTION OF SCHOOLS.	No. of Schools. [1]	Number of Scholars belonging to the Schools
DESCRIPTION OF SCHOOLS.	No. of Schools. [1]	Total. [2]	Males. [3]	Females. [4]
DAY SCHOOLS	901	51,856	28,270	23,586
PUBLIC DAY SCHOOLS	304	31,112	17,939	13,173
PRIVATE DAY SCHOOLS	597	20,744	10,331	10,413
Classification of Public Schools: CLASS I.-SUPPORTED BY GENERAL OR LOCAL TAXATION	1	40	40	0
CLASS II.-SUPPORTED BY ENDOWMENTS	64	5,448	3,668	1,780
CLASS III.-SUPPORTED BY RELIGIOUS BODIES	195	21,755	12,083	9,672
CLASS IV.-OTHER PUBLIC SCHOOLS	44	3,869	2,148	1,721
CLASS I: Workhouse Schools	1	40	40	0
CLASS II: Collegiate and Grammar Schools	12	663	580	83
CLASS II: Other Endowed Schools	52	4,785	3,088	1,697
CLASS III: Church of England	157	17,750	9,842	7,908
CLASS III: United Presbyterians	1	29	25	4
CLASS III: Presbyterian Church In England	2	346	239	107
CLASS III: Independents	2	193	128	65
CLASS III: Society of Friends	1	46	26	20
CLASS III: Wesleyan Methodists	7	669	213	456
CLASS III: Methodist New Connexion	1	22	0	22
CLASS III: Primitive Methodists	1	31	26	5
CLASS III: Roman Catholics	12	935	607	328
CLASS III: Undenominational	11	1,734	977	757
CLASS IV: Ragged Schools (exclusive of those supported by religious bodies)	1	68	58	10
CLASS IV: Colliery Schools	23	1,972	1,132	840
CLASS IV: Chemical Works School	3	713	380	333
CLASS IV: Other Subscription Schools of no specific character	17	1,116	578	538
SUNDAY SCHOOLS	516	49,881	25,931	23,950
Church of England	166	14,355	7,705	6,650
United Presbyterian Church	13	1,184	518	666
Presbyterian Church in England	4	630	314	316
Independents	25	2,921	1,412	1,509
Baptists	12	882	386	496
Society of Friends	5	263	165	98
Unitarians	2	42	26	16
Wesleyan Methodists	263	27,193	14,188	13,005
Undefined Protestant Congregations	11	1,172	589	583
Roman Catholics	15	1,239	628	611

Click on the triangles for all about a particular number.

This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.