NRS-16726 | Registers of Admission, Progress and Withdrawal [Chichester Public School]

The purpose of an admission register was to record basic details about children admitted to the school, and about their parents or guardians. The registers were also used to record the progress of the children through various classes and the date of their leaving the school.These volumes contain information pertaining to each pupil including: date of admission; pupil's name; date of birth; religious denomination; name of previous school and date of leaving. The following details are recorded about the child's parents or guardians: name, residence and occupation. The pupil's date of admission to each subsequent grade, date of leaving the school and any occupation entered into on leaving school are also recorded; this last column is also used to indicate the school to which a pupil may have transferred.Girls and boys are listed on opposite pages in order of admission. These entries are numbered consecutively, with separate numbering sequences for boys and for girls commencing at the beginning of each volume. This arrangement is abandoned after 1957; thereafter boys and girls are recorded on the same page (except in 1964, when the record briefly reverts to the earlier system), and new numbering sequences, albeit brief ones, start with each new school year.The present series is represented by a single volume, the last of the series. This volume was written up retrospectively at some time between the 24th March, 1948 and the 14th September of the same year, evidently in order to have all pupils currently enrolled at that time recorded in the new volume. The enrolment at this point consisted of seven boys and sixteen girls, the earliest of whom had been admitted to the school on the 12th March, 1939. The last recorded admission is dated the 9th September, 1969, at which point the total enrolment at the school was eight boys and two girls; the volume is then initialed by the Inspector on the 13th November of that year, approximately a month before the school closed.

入学登记册（admission register）的核心用途为记录入校学生及其家长或监护人的基础信息，同时亦可用于追踪学生在各年级的就读进度与离校日期。本系列档案册包含每名学生的如下信息：入学日期、学生姓名、出生日期、宗教教派、此前就读学校名称及离校日期。关于学生的家长或监护人，登记册会记录其姓名、住址与职业信息。此外，系统还会记录学生升入各后续年级的入学日期、离校日期，以及离校时从事的职业；该列亦可用于标注学生转往的目标学校。

1957年以前，男生与女生的登记条目按照入学顺序分别排布在对页之上，每条登记信息均连续编号，且每册档案为男生、女生分别设置独立的编号序列，起始编号均为1。1957年后，该编排方式被废止：此后男生与女生的登记信息将被记录在同一页面上（1964年除外，当年登记系统短暂恢复为此前的编排模式），且每一新学年均会启用全新的编号序列（尽管此类序列通常较短）。

本数据集所属的系列仅存一册，即该系列的终册。该册档案于1948年3月24日至同年9月14日期间补录完成，其目的显然是将当时在校就读的全部学生信息录入这本新档案册中。此次补录时，学校在读学生共计7名男生与16名女生，其中最早入校的学生入学日期为1939年3月12日。登记在册的最后一次入学日期为1969年9月9日，彼时学校在读学生共计8名男生与2名女生；同年11月13日，督学在该档案册上签署姓名首字母，此时距学校正式关停仅约一个月。