Muslim school attendance and literacy rates were drastically low by 1954
Evidence
By 1954 it was estimated that, of the Muslims, only one boy in five was attending school, and one in sixteen among girls (though in some country areas the ratio could rise as high as one in seventy); illiteracy (in French) was set at ninety-four per cent for the males, ninety-eight per cent for the females. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 180