ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a variety of ways which combine data from multiple settlements, permitting organization of pupils into broad categories. It offers insights into the demographics within the schools, and how the classroom composition shifted over time. The most diverse period, that of the schools before the 1816 retrenchment, is emblematic of the formative period of the mission schools in the region. The true diversity and transformative impact of the school may be better demonstrated if we consider the sheer variety of social standings and of origins present among the student body. The students' origins ranged from being explicitly European, to Afro-European children, to the sons and daughters of local headmen and village chiefs. Settler children as a category broadly indicates the descendants of the Nova Scotians who first founded the settlement. Traders' children were considerably more common in the records, and are here touched upon in brief.
