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There were 18 ten-year-olds: 11 boys, 7 girls, placed
in three different classes according to social maturity
and related factors.
16 were from within the borough.
I.Q. range 52 - 80: mean 70.
Reading age range: <5 - 10.3; mean<6.4.
Average age of admission: 7½ years.
3 children are poor attenders: 166 228 272
384 384 384
6 children receive free school meals.
3.7 children per family (4 families of 6 children)
3 broken families (one parent gone) and 6 more under stress
(total ½)
Strong association: practically same children who receive
free meals come from families under stress, and live in
same area (Norbiton).
11 assumed 'normally' backward, i.e. one end of a normal
distribution. Others: 1 psychotic (?), 1 maladjusted,
and remaining 5 - some form of neurological impairment
assumed.
8 children had working mothers.
11 children said they had never been to London.