CARICOM CAPACITY DEVEL OPMENT PROGRAMME (CCDP)

National Census Report 2001, GrenadaTable 4.5. Percentage Distribution of Children Under 5 Years Attending Schoolby Type of School and Parish, 2001ParishType-SchoolDay Care/ Nursery Pre-SchoolTotalTotal 1.99 98.0 100.0St George's 1.5 98.5 100.0Town of St George's 7.0 93.0 100.0St John's 1.3 98.7 100.0St Mark's 2.2 97.8 100.0St Patrick's 6.6 93.4 100.0St Andrew's 1.2 98.8 100.0St David's 0.9 99.1 100.0Carraicou - 100.0 100.04.2. Population 5 Years or Older4.2.1. School AttendanceOf the seventy-eight thousand, and ninety-six (78,096) persons aged 5 years or older,Table 4.6 shows that 26,750 or 34.3 percent were attending school and that 65.7 percentwere not attending school at the time of the 2001 Population and Housing Census. Table4.7 shows that the Parish of St. Marks had the highest percentage of persons 5 years orolder attending school (38.0 percent), followed by the Parishes of St. Andrews and St.Patricks. When compared to all other Parishes in Grenada, the Town of St. Georgesand Carriacou had the lowest percentages of school attendance among persons aged 5years or older, the respective percentages being 29.6 percent and 31.4 percent.Table 4.7 also shows that there were more females 5 years or older attending school thanamong their male counterparts 5 years or older. Moreover, there was evidence of aslightly higher school attendance among females (34.7 percent) when compared to thatamong their male counterparts (33.8 percent). It is worth noting that both the Parish andTown of St. Georges were the only districts where there were greater percentages amongmales than among females attending school. Otherwise, in all of the other districts, the30