REPORT

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

FOR

THE YEAR 1891-'92.

VOLUME 1.

CONTAINING PART I.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,

1894.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

COMMISSIONER'S INTRODUCTION.

PART I.

CHAPTER I.-GENERAL CLASSIFIED SUMMARY OF PUPILS OF ALL GRADES IN

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS.

Number of pupils or students in all grades in both public and private schools

Where the secondary pupils are found..

What per cent of the total population is under instruction

What part of the school population is attending school.

Proportion of elementary, secondary, and higher pupils.

Proportion of public and of private instruction..

Higher students and population compared.

Public and private higher instruction..

Distribution of students in professional schools.

Sex of secondary and higher students....

Number of female college students as compared with the population..

Sex of normal students...

CHAPTER II.-STATISTICS OF STATE COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEMS.

General summary..

General remarks upon the tables.

Table 1.-Total population, school population, and adult male population

Table 2.-Relation of school population to total population and to adult male population;

proportion of white school population of foreign birth or extraction; percentage of for-

eign born of total population....

Diagram 1.-Showing for each State the number of adult males to every 100 children of

school age in 1890.

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Table 3.-Number of pupils enrolled at various periods, and relation of enrollment to school

population....

Table 4.-School enrollment of 1891-92, classified by sex, and compared with the enrollment

of the preceding year; per cent of the male and of the female school population enrolled.

Diagram 2.-Showing for each year of age from 5 to 18 the whole number enrolled in the com-

mon schools

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Table 5.-Showing for each year of age from 5 to 18 the whole number of children and the

number enrolled in the common schools...

Diagram 3.-School enrollment compared with school population

Table 6.-School population of the United States and number of pupils enrolled each year
since 1870-71; per cent of school population enrolled in each geographic division

Diagram 4.-Showing the per cent of school population enrolled in the common schools....

Table 7.-Average daily attendance at various periods and its present relation to the aver

age attendance of the preceding year, to the enrollment and to school population.....

Diagram 5.-Percentage of school population in attendance at school.

Table 8.-Aggregate number of days' schooling given to all pupils.

Length of school term, etc

Diagram 6.--Average length of school term in days...

Diagram 7-Average number of days' schooling given for every child 5 to 18 years of age,

by States

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