All the children of school ago were attending school. Children who had permanent winter homes showed fairly good attendance, while those who remained all winter on the canal boats showed low percentages of attendance. More than half the children for whom full facts were reported, however, were below the normal grade for their age. The children of families on canal boats moored in the basins or to piers in New York Harbor attended schools in Now York City, Brooklyn, and in New Jersey. Though the distance from the piers to the schools was not great, children at Erie Basin had almost a mile to go, across dumps and unpaved streets and paths. Moreover, those who were back of the first tier of boats had to jump from one deck to another to get ashore. The boats were fastened as closely together as was practicable, but the levels of the decks varied with the rise and fall of the tide and the loading and unloading of the holds, and at times there was considerable risk in jumping from boat to boat or from the boats to the shore. Children living on boats moored at the Shadyside and Edgewater Basins, on the Jersey bank of the Hudson, were in a still more hazardous position because of the wreckage that obstructed the space between the boats and the shore. Numbers of sunken canal boats cluttered these basins and families had to cross these wrecks to get to land. The school at Edgewater was at the top of the Palisades so that a steep climb up the embankment was necessary in order to reach it. One mother located at Edgewater said she never went ashore because of the difficulties of getting from boat to boat. Her little son, however, was attending the school at the top of the bluff.