Contains:- half yearly financial statements; tables showing the consumption of gas, coal, coke and water; the classification of schools for salary purposes; tables showing the incomes of board and voluntary schools throughout the country; quarterly attendance returns; regular attendance certificates; prizes under the scheme of the Board; results of drawing examinations; statement relating to the offering of land to the board, printed as an appendix to the Minutes of the Committee of the Board; return of member's attendances at commtee meetings, 1880-1883; memoranda of the proceedings at the opening of new board schools in Chapman Street and Westbourne Street by the Rt. Hon. Anthony .J. Mundella, M.P.;

information obtained from other towns with respect to the letting of schools (Birmingham, Bradford, Leeds, Leicester; London; Manchester; Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham and Sheffield); regulations for the letting of schools; appendix to the minutes of the School Management Committee relating to scholarship examinations and examination results;

returns of information from other boards on the provision of education for the deaf and dumb, (Glasgow, Leeds, London; Nottingham, Sheffield, Sunderland, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Derby, Gateshead, Huddersfield, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne, Salford, Bolton, Bradford, Cardiff, Croydon, Halifax, Leicester, Norwich, Oldham, Plymouth, Southampton, Swansea and Wolverhampton.);

return on the teaching of temperance in board schools and a return on it's teaching in other towns (Birmingham, Bolton, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Burnley, Cardiff, Croydon, Derby, Gateshead, Glasgow, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leicester, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oldham, Plymouth, Salford, Sheffield, Southampton, Sunderland, Swansea and Wolverhampton.);

collection of recipes used at School Board Cookery Classes and papers relating to the Girl's Industrial School, Park Avenue and the Boy's Industrial School, Marlborough Terrace, Hull (time table, officer's and children's diet tables and regulations for each school.)