||The English used in this article may not be easy for everybody
to understand. (January 2012)| A Volkschule was part of an 18th
century system of state-supported primary schools established in
the Habsburg Austrian Empire. Attendance was supposedly
compulsory, but a 1781 census reveals that only one fourth of
the school-age children attended. At the time, this was one of
the few examples of state-supported schooling.