Stenographic Report of the Proceedings (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... small high school attendance. The total enrollment in all the educational institutions in the country is, in round numbers, 18,000,000, or more than 22 per cent. of the population, now estimated at 80,000,000. This proportion of enrollment to population is nearly four per cent. greater than that of Great Britain, our closest rival. But the enrollment in all the secondary schools, public and private, is only 750,000, while the enrollment in all the higher institutions of learning is only 250,000. The ratio of secondary pupils to the total enrollment in this country is only 4.21 per cent., and is exceeded by Austria, Germany, and Great Britain. Of the 750,000 enrolled in our secondary schools, yj per cent., or 550,000, are in the public high schools. Of this number 323,000 are girls, so that in this Republic of 80,000,000 inhabitants, with a general system of free public high schools, we have in those schools today only 227,000 boys. Coming nearer home, we find that the elementary schools of Chicago have an enrollment of 237,000, while the high schools have only 10,300, or less than five per cent. of the total public school enrollment. In Evanston there are 3,440 pupils in the elementary grades, while the high school has 423 pupils, or 11 per cent. of the total public school enrollment. A more serious feature, even than the small high school attendance, is the small percentage of those who graduate from the high school, or even from the eighth grade. Last year the graduates from all the high schools of the country numbered only 23,786 boys and 42,476 girls. In Chicago the eighth grade graduates last June numbered only 9,698, and the high school graduates, 1,285, or J3 Per cent. of the high school enrollment. In Evanston the eighth grade graduates last June ...