gate of these amounts was $5,989,157. Tuition fees to the amount of $465,494 were received by 1,460 schools; 212 received $242,504 from productive funds, and 613 schools received $886,485 from other sources. It is believed that the greater part of the latter item should be credited to public funds. The aggregate income of 2,019 schools reporting total receipts was $7,583,640. Benefactions amounting to $142,936 were received by 84 schools. Endowments aggregating $1,255,931 are owned by 52 public high schools. PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES. Summaries of the statistics of private high schools, academies, and seminaries are given in Tables 16 to 29. Tables 16 to 26, inclusive, are similar to Tables 1 to 11 relating to public high schools, and the two series may be compared. Tables 27 and 15 may also be compared. Table 30 is a comparison of certain averages computed for public and private high schools. It is shown in Tables 16 and 17 that there were 1,835 private secondary schools, with 9,903 instructors of secondary students, and 104,690 secondary students, 51,536 males and 53,154 females. There were 14,362 preparing for the college classical course and 11,212 for college scientific courses. There were 11,425 graduates, 5,141 of whom had prepared for college. There were 9,186 students in military drill, an increase of 148 over the preceding year. In the elementary departments of these schools there were 130,908 pupils below the secondary grades. Tables 18 to 23 show the number of students in each of the 18 leading high school studies in each State, while the percentages of students in each study are given in Tables 24 to 26. The following table is a synopsis of the number and per cent of students, by sex, in college preparatory courses, the number and per cent of graduates, and the number and per cent in each of the high school studies in private secondary schools for the scholastic year ending June, 1902: Students in certain courses and studies in private high schools and academies. A comparison of this table with a similar table on a preceding page relating to public high schools will show that nearly 25 per cent of the private high school students were preparing for college, and less than 11 per cent of the public high school students were making such preparation. The following table indicates the progress made by the private high schools and academies in the past ten years, as indicated in the increased percentages of students in certain courses and studies: Per cent of total number secondary students in private high schools and academies in certain courses and studies. Students and studies. 1891-92 1892-93 1893-94 1894-95 1895-96 1896-97 1897-98 1898-99 Table 27 exhibits the value of equipment, income, benefactions, endowments, etc., of private high schools, academies, and seminaries. The number of volumes in the libraries of 1,422 schools was 1,961,494. The value of grounds, buildings, scientific apparatus, etc., owned by 1,328 schools was $63,276,279. Tuition fees aggregating $6,554,345 were received by 1,089 schools, and 266 schools received $1,600,151 from productive funds. From public funds 206 schools received $135,478. Income from other sources and unclassified received by 410 schools amounted to $1,293,702. The aggregate income of 1,142 schools was $9,583,676. During the year 174 schools received benefactions amounting to $980,635. The money value of endowment reported by 214 schools was $31,463,453. Religious denominations control 923 of the 1,835 private secondary schools. In Table 44, which gives in detail the statistics of these schools, the name of the denomination controlling each is given in column 4. Tables 28 and 29 show the number of schools in each State controlled by each leading religious denomination. The following synopsis is made from these tables: The combined statistics of public and private secondary schools are given in Tables 31 to 38. A comparison of certain statistics is made in Table 30. In the public high schools there were about 87 students to a school and 25 students to a teacher, while in the private schools there were 54 secondary students to a school and about 11 to a teacher, indicating that teachers gave much of their time to the instruction of elementary students in the private high schools. Table 31 shows that the 8,127 public and private secondary schools had 32,318 secondary teachers and 655,301 secondary students. The girls comprised 376,851, or over 57 per cent of the enrollment. The number of students preparing for college was 84,265, or nearly 13 per cent of the total number of secondary students. The graduates for 1902 numbered 77,687, or nearly 12 per cent of the enrollment for the year. The number of graduates who had prepared for college was 26, 159, or more than one-third of the total number of graduates. The number and per cent of students in each of the leading high school studies in each State are given in Tables 33 to 38. The following synopsis shows the number of male and female students in certain courses and studies for the United States for the year 1901-2: Students in certain courses and studies in public and private high schools and academies. The synopsis which follows is an interesting review of the progress made in ten years by the secondary schools of the country in the increased enrollment year by year in certain studies. In 1889-90 there were 100, 152 students in public and private secondary schools studying Latin. This was 33.62 per cent of the total secondary enrollment. In 1901-2 the number had increased to 324,497, or about 50 per cent of the enrollment for that year. Since 1890 the number of secondary students in algebra has increased from 42.77 per cent to 55.27 per cent in 1901–2. Increased enrollment in other studies will be indicated by increased percentages in the following table: Per cent of the total number of secondary students in public and private high schools and academies in certain courses and studies, etc. Students and studies. 1891-92 1892-93 1893-94 1894-95 1895-96 1896-97 1897-98 1898-99 Total preparing Graduates Studying Latin Greek. French German. Algebra.. Geometry Trigonometry Astronomy Physics. Chemistry 22.04 22.25 24.02 Physical geography Geology Physiology Psychology. Rhetoric.. English literature United States).. Civics.... for college..... 16.77 18.12 17.67 17.11 17.21 15.51 14.02 14.05 14.53 14.84 12.86 History (other than The distribution of the 734,760 secondary students mentioned on the first page of this chapter is shown by States in Tables 39 and 40. It is shown in Table 41 that the number of secondary students to each 1,000 of population in 1902 was 9.35. The same table shows that the number in higher education was 246,063, or 3.13 to the 1,000 population. This number includes all students who in 1901–2 were receiving higher instruction in universities and colleges, all professional students, including those in theology, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine, and all in training courses for teachers in normal schools. Students in nurse-training schools, business schools, and in schools for the defective classes are not here included as in either secondary or higher education. Table 42 shows the number of public and private high schools for boys only, for girls only, and the number of coeducational secondary schools in each State. TABLE 1.-Public high schools-Number of schools, secondary instructors, secondary students, and elementary pupils in 1901–2. United States. 6, 292 10, 958 11, 457/22, 415 226, 914 323, 697 550, 611 2, 767 5, 901 8, 668,59, 962 57, 900 117,862 N. Atlantic Division 1, 476 2,960 4,333 7,293 75, 888 105, 143 181, 031, S. Atlantic Division 436 691 S. Central Division. 702 1,037 N. Central Division 3,333 5,535 Western Division 735 326 600 926 14,120 11,093 25, 213 568 1,259 11,024 16,937 27,961 589 1,284 1,873 7,098 7,153 14,251 755 1,792 16, 450 24,001 40, 454 723 1,890 2, 613 10, 167 10,096) 20, 263 5,084 10, 619 109, 736 156, 714 266, 450 1, 071 2, 018 3, 089 25, 737 26, 685 52, 422 717 1,452 13,816 20,899 31,715) 58 109 167 2,840 2,873 315 5,713 |