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Aboriginal parents who have married into white society, and are
integrated into white society.
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Aboriginal students make up a large proportion of enrolments. Seventy
Sixstudents formed 14.56 per cent of the total enrolment in 1980,
(Pt. Augusta Primary School, in the centre of the town, had 52.6 per
cent of its enrolments Aboriginal students)ɪ,

The Aboriginal students constitute a large, visible group coming
from a wide variety of family backgrounds, varying from integration
into white society, to the other extreme, of ’bush’ people, newly
arrived at the Davenport reserve from camp situations.

Among those coming into the area and attending school at the
primary school level, there are Aboriginal people still speaking
their native language.

(ħ) Augusta Park High School

Augusta Park Aborigines share the same background outlined
for Pt. Augusta High, but with a different emphasis. Augusta Park
is a relatively newly established suburb of Pt. Augusta. The

schooling areas at the time of the study were zoned to keep the                    !

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numbers at each school approximately the same.                                      !

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There was Aboriginal housing in the area, providing a choice                   ⅛

for those Aboriginal people who wished to opt out of central                       I

Pt. Augusta housing areas and established kinship groupings. It
is likely, then, that Aboriginal people moving into this area were
oriented to a white world. In 1980, 49 students out of an enrolment
of 519 were Aborigines (9.44 per cent). The nearby primary school                 ∣

of Augusta Park had a 4.95 per cent enrolment of Aboriginal students
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(25 students) . There were proportionately less Aboriginal students
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!Enrolments in 1981 for central Pt. Augusta were: Pt. Augusta High,            і

98 students, 18.49 per cent of total enrolment; Pt. Augusta Primary,               J

130 students, 63.73 per cent of total enrolment.                                     і

^zThe 1981 Aboriginal enrolments for Augusta Park were: Secondary               ∙

school, 52 students, 9.42 per cent of the total enrolment; Primary

School, 35 students, 6.60 per cent of the total enrolment.

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