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".

List top level	Scotland Dep	Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll Ayrshire Banffshire Berwickshire Buteshire Caithness Clackmannanshire Dumfries Shire Dunbartonshire East Lothian Fife Inverness Shire Kincardineshire Kinross Shire Kirkcudbrightshire Lanarkshire Midlothian Moray Nairnshire Orkney and Shetland Peebles Shire Perthshire Renfrewshire Ross and Cromarty Roxburghshire Selkirkshire Stirlingshire Sutherland West Lothian Wigtownshire

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	5,242	368,517	205,348	163,169	310,442	173,330	137,112
PUBLIC DAY SCHOOLS	3,349	280,045	161,754	118,291	232,442	135,043	97,399
PRIVATE DAY SCHOOLS	1,893	88,472	43,594	44,878	78,000	38,287	39,713
Classification of Public Schools: CLASS I.-SUPPORTED BY GENERAL OR LOCAL TAXATION	1,039	88,900	58,007	30,893	75,431	49,363	26,068
CLASS II.-SUPPORTED BY ENDOWMENTS	491	39,537	22,100	17,437	32,901	18,403	14,498
CLASS III.-SUPPORTED BY RELIGIOUS BODIES	1,385	114,739	62,715	52,024	93,211	51,357	41,854
CLASS IV.-OTHER PUBLIC SCHOOLS	434	36,869	18,932	17,937	30,899	15,920	14,979
CLASS I: Military Schools	7	294	189	105	251	156	95
CLASS I: Corporation Schools	1,025	87,439	56,973	30,466	74,313	48,610	25,703
CLASS I: Workhouse Schools	2	157	103	54	138	88	50
CLASS I: Prison Schools	1	143	71	72	119	59	60
CLASS I: [Other]	4	867	671	196	610	450	160
CLASS II: Other Endowed Schools	491	39,537	22,100	17,437	32,901	18,403	14,498
CLASS III: Established Church	537	36,995	19,034	17,961	31,484	16,295	15,189
CLASS III: United Presbyterians	61	5,807	3,173	2,634	4,768	2,644	2,124
CLASS III: Presbyterians (not otherwise defined)	2	355	184	171	295	158	137
CLASS III: Free Church	712	62,660	35,848	26,812	50,582	28,929	21,653
CLASS III: Episcopal Church	36	2,658	1,493	1,165	2,077	1,201	876
CLASS III: Independents	4	424	219	205	336	171	165
CLASS III: Baptists	1	167	96	71	160	92	68
CLASS III: Roman Catholics	32	5,673	2,668	3,005	3,509	1,867	1,642
CLASS IV: Ragged Schools (exclusive of those supported by religious bodies)	18	1,491	910	581	1,300	793	507
CLASS IV: Orphan Schools	3	216	128	88	185	112	73
CLASS IV: Blind Schools	1	24	13	11	23	12	11
CLASS IV: Deaf and Dumb Schools	2	89	61	28	75	51	24
CLASS IV: Factory Schools	12	1,130	498	632	958	448	510
CLASS IV: Colliery Schools	20	2,101	1,124	977	1,754	949	805
CLASS IV: Foundry Schools	24	4,177	2,302	1,875	3,229	1,835	1,394
CLASS IV: Industrial Schools	10	800	425	375	718	385	333
CLASS IV: Other Subscription Schools of no specific character	344	26,841	13,471	13,370	22,657	11,335	11,322
SABBATH SCHOOLS	3,803	292,549	135,434	157,115	230,024	106,211	123,813
Established Church	1,095	76,233	36,055	40,178	60,104	28,275	31,829
Reformed Presbyterian Church	61	4,953	2,210	2,743	3,908	1,746	2,162
Original Secession Church	4	212	108	104	204	101	103
Relief Church	2	81	42	39	76	39	37
United Presbyterian Church	546	53,638	24,544	29,094	42,240	19,155	23,085
Free Church	1,218	89,662	41,240	48,422	69,633	32,177	37,456
Episcopal Church	57	3,706	1,757	1,949	2,591	1,224	1,367
Independents or Congregationalists	177	12,593	5,719	6,874	10,101	4,607	5,494
Old Scotch Independents	1	130	45	85	111	37	74
Baptists	44	2,506	1,147	1,359	1,941	865	1,076
Unitarians	1	130	70	60	100	54	46
Wesleyan Methodists	61	5,908	2,827	3,081	4,423	2,043	2,380
New Church	1	30	14	16	25	11	14
Evangelical Union	22	1,853	849	1,004	1,475	682	793
Isolated Congregations	453	27,915	12,974	14,941	22,126	10,235	11,891
Roman Catholics	60	13,015	5,859	7,156	10,954	4,656	6,298
Jews	1	14	5	9	12	4	8

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.

1

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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