This appears to be a draft letter to parents from the Headmaster, W.
Charlton Cox,
offering places at the school to a group of pupils who had previously taken
the scholarship examination
The number of vacancies available is said to be 23, which strongly suggests that
the elementary school pupils who had earned the higher marks in the examination had
already been allocated places. By the following September 66 pupils were admitted
to the Form 1 at the school. Of those pupils in the letter, all but Haydn Thomas are
to be found on the school roll, and they were placed in Form 1B. In Form 1A, 30 out
of 31 pupils had some type of fee exemption; in Form 1B, 3 out of 30 had fee exemption
suggesting that 1A was the upper stream with boys who had scored the higher marks
in the entrance examination. The remaining 5 pupils were initially placed in Form
1C, but without any explanation of why there was such a small Form.
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