girls; 260 of these were from the Kansas City ward schools

72 boys and 188 girls, while 20 boys and 55 girls were admitted or came from outside schools. Seventeen boys and 37 girls from the Kansas City boys and girls dropped out of school, and 4 boys and 4 girls from the outside. withdrew. The per cents. of the totals for the fourth year are 22.7, 16.9, and 18.5, respectively.

MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL

The total enrollment in the Manual Training High School was 1,493, there being 628 boys and 865 girls; these are distributed by years as follows: first year, 673-313 boys and 360 girls; second year, 363—139 boys and 224 girls; third year, 268-104 boys and 164 girls; fourth year, 148-64 boys and 84 girls.

There were 42 post-graduates in the school-8 boys and 34 girls. Not counting the post-graduates, 1,275 of these pupils were promoted from the Kansas City ward schools, 154 from other schools, and 22 were admitted by examination. Of the 286 boys and 287 girls in the first year from Kansas City ward schools, 71 boys and 59 girls quit school, or 24.8 and 20.4 per cent. respectively. Of 20 boys and 60 girls admitted from other schools, 55 and 21.6 per cent., respectively, quit, while of the 22 admitted by examination none left school. Grouping the first-year pupils together, 26.2 per cent. of the boys and 20 per cent. of the girls withdrew from school, or an average of both sexes of 22.8 per cent.

The total number of second-year pupils was 363, of whom 139 were boys and 224 girls. Of this number 124 boys and 181 girls were from Kansas City ward schools, 15 boys and 42 girls from other schools, and . I boy admitted by examination. The number that left school was 25 boys and 48 girls, or 18 per cent. of the boys and 21.4 per cent. of the girls.

In the third year there were 104 boys and 164 girls; total, 268; the total number that left school was 50-29 boys and 21 girls. All of this class except 13 had entered school from the Kansas City ward schools. Twenty-eight per cent. of the boys and 12.3 per cent. of the girls left school during the year.

There were enrolled in the fourth-year class 189 pupils-72 boys and 117 girls-42 being post-graduates. Not counting post-graduates, only 5 boys and 8 girls left the class during the year, while 3 boys and 12 girls quit. But grouping them as was done in the other schools will increase the percentage of boys to 11.5 per cent. and of the girls 19.4 per cent., respectively. The total for both sexes separately was, for the boys 22.9 per cent., for the girls 18.5 per cent., and for the school 20.4 per cent.; but the percentage of the boys from the Kansas City ward schools that dropped was 26.2 per cent., and of the girls 17 per cent., and of those admitted from the outside, 42.5 per cent. of the boys and 20

per cent. of the girls. Of this class 130 pupils graduated, or 68 per cent., the same as from Central High School.

THE WESTPORT HIGH SCHOOL

This is a small, but excellent, high school, in which 193 pupils were enrolled-65 boys and 128 girls. The first-year class was composed of 64 members-21 boys and 43 girls. Two boys only dropped out, and 10 girls; that is, 9.5 per cent. of the boys and 23.3 per cent. of the girls. In the second-year class 54 were enrolled-20 boys and 34 girls; 5 boys and 5 girls left school, or 25 per cent. of the boys and 20.5 per cent. of the girls.

The third-year class consisted of 44 members-12 boys and 32 girls, of whom 3 boys and 5 girls withdrew from school.

In the fourth-year class were 12 boys and 19 girls. No boys and only 2 girls withdrew from this class during the year. The withdrawals for the boys from the entire school was 15.58 per cent., and of the girls 19 per cent. The fourth-year class furnished 25 graduates, or 80.6 per cent.

of the entire class.

LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL

This is a high school for the negro children of Kansas City. The total number of pupils enrolled was 231-79 boys and 152 girls: in the first-year class, 38 boys and 77 girls; second-year, 12 boys and 34 girls; third-year, 16 boys and 23 girls; and in the fourth-year, 13 boys and 18 girls. Out of the first-year class of 115, 11 boys and 28 girls left school; of the second-year class of 46, 7 boys and 8 girls were withdrawn; of the third-year class of 39, 7 boys and 8 girls were withdrawn ; and of the fourth-year class of 31 pupils-13 boys and 18 girls were withdrawn 2 boys and 7 girls. The percentage of withdrawals for the first year from the entire class was 34; second year, 32.6; third year, 38.4; and from the fourth year, 29.1.

THE NUMBER OF GRADUATES

There were enrolled in the Kansas City High Schools, as previously stated, for the school year closing June 30, 1901, 3,602; the average daily attendance was 2,855, and the number of graduates 440, as follows: from the Central High School, 254; Manual High School, 130; Lincoln High School, 31; Westport High School, 25; at the Central High School, 77 boys and 177 girls; Manual Training High School, 56 boys and 74 girls; Westport High School, 12 boys and 13 girls; Lincoln High School, 13 boys and 18 girls.

The percentage of graduates from each school to its entire enrollment was: Central High School, 15.1; Manual Training High School, 8.7; Westport High School, 13; Lincoln High School, 13.4.

Considerable discussion has occurred in regard to the large number of pupils who leave the high school during the first year owing to the repulsive nature of some of the studies which the boys are required to pursue. I never attached much importance to this argument, and, as a consequence, I decided to collect some statistics from the three upper grades of our ward schools bearing upon withdrawals as compared with that in the high schools. The results throw some additional light on the subject. In the fifth grade of our ward schools there were enrolled for the year just closed 2,846-1,335 boys and 1,511 girls; 350 boys and 318 girls withdrew, making a total of 668 pupils, or 26.1 per cent. of the boys and 21 per cent. of the girls of the entire number. There were 2,271 pupils in the sixth grade; 257 boys and 244 girls withdrew, making a total of 501, or 25.3 per cent. of the boys and 19.4 per cent. of the girls, and 23 per cent. of the whole number. In the seventh grade there were enrolled 1,700 pupils-747 boys and 953 girls; 173 boys and 141 girls left total, 314; or, expressed in per cents., 23.1 per cent. of the boys and 14.8 per cent. of the girls, and 18.4 per cent. of the grade.

FAILURES IN CLASS STANDING AND IN SUBJECTS

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

The total number enrolled in this school was 1,686-552 boys and 1,134 girls. The total number of boys that failed in class standing was 133, and girls 214-total 347. The causes assigned are: sickness, 26 boys and 64 girls; sickness in family, 12 boys and 9 girls; failing eyesight, I boy and 11 girls; too much attention to society, 5 girls; inability to do the work, 4 boys and 7 girls; to go to work, 43 boys and 18 girls; transferred, 10 boys and 21 girls; left the city, 11 boys and 32 girls; unknown causes, 32 boys and 47 girls.

MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL

The reports from this school are very complete in every respect. The total enrollment was 628 boys and 865 girls. The failures in class standing in departments are as follows: in English, 90 boys and 85 girls; in mathematics, 127 boys and 125 girls; in science, 46 boys and 53 girls; in history, 40 boys and 47 girls; in zoölogy, 32 boys and 36 girls; in foreign languages, 13 boys and 17 girls; in physics, 19 boys and 8 girls; in electricity and steam, 13 boys.

Summary. Sickness, 53 boys and 172 girls, total 225; sickness in family, 5 boys and 24 girls, total 29; failing eyesight, 14 girls, total 14; too much attention to society, 5 boys and 13 girls, total 18; inability to do the work, 54 boys and 70 girls, total 120; football, 1 boy, total 1; to go to work, 155 boys and 26 girls, total 181; transferred, 13 boys and 6 girls, total 19; left the city, 34 boys and 51 girls, total 85; causes unknown, 116 boys and 100 girls, total 216. Totals, 436 boys and 476 girls; grand total, 912.

REMARK. It will be observed that one pupil may be marked "failure" in one, two, three, or even four subjects.

Failures in subjects.—The failures accredited to the first-year pupils in the Manual Training High School were 580-boys 285 and girls 295; in English, 10657 boys and 49 girls; in mathematics, 202-93 boys and 109 girls; in science, 53-32 boys and 21 girls; in history and civics, 39-14 boys and 25 girls; in zoölogy, 49-26 boys and 23 girls; in foreign languages, 22-10 boys and 12 girls; in steam and electricity, 13 boys; in modern languages and Latin, 96-40 boys and 56 girls.

The failures among the second-year pupils amounted to 231English having 59; modern languages and Latin, 53; mathematics, 49; history and civics, 29; science, 26; zoölogy, 16.

The total failures in the third-year class were 90-50 boys and 40 girls; the largest number in any one group was in physics, 27, and the next in English, 24, and the lowest was in Latin, 5. There were only 34 failures in the fourth-year class, 14 in English, and 12 in other languages.

WESTPORT HIGH SCHOOL

The total number of failures out of 193 pupils was 33-8 boys and 25 girls, as follows: sickness, 2 boys and 7 girls; sickness in family, 2 boys and 5 girls; to go to work, 3 boys and 5 girls; left the city, I boy and 6 girls; failing eyesight, 2 girls.

Failures in subjects.— In history, 3 boys and 3 girls, total 6; in physics and chemistry, 3 girls, no boys; in mathematics, 5 girls; in modern languages, 4 girls; in Latin and Greek, 2 boys and 2 girls, total 4; in English, 2 boys and 5 girls, total 7; in biology and physiology, 1 boy and 3 girls, total 4.

LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL

Causes of failure.-Sickness, 4 boys and 43 girls, total 47; sickness in family, 18 girls, total 18; too much attention to society, 18 girls, total 18; inability to do the work, 8 boys and 26 girls, total 34; to go to work, 48 boys and 39 girls, total 87; left the city, 13 boys and 16 girls, total 29; unknown causes, 12 boys and 13 girls, total 25. Totals, 85 boys and 173 girls; grand total, 258.

Failures in subjects.-In mathematics, 20 boys and 43 girls, total 63; in history and biology, 7 boys and 8 girls, total 15; in languages, 18 boys and 36 girls, total 54; in English, 20 boys and 43 girls, total 63; in science, 20 boys and 43 girls, total 63.

COST OF MAINTAINING PUPILS IN HIGH SCHOOL

I have been only moderately successful in securing data on this subject. Many reports are strangely mute on this topic. With a thoughtful person one of the first questions is what it will cost, and I believe that this is a pertinent inquiry in regard to all school questions. To put it another way: How far can a community afford to tax itself constantly in order to support and maintain an adequate system of public schools? The following will throw some light on the subject in the cities mentioned:

Boston.- Edwin P. Seaver, superintendent: Net cost of educating 5,766 resident pupils in the Boston Normal, Latin, and High Schools, $507,377.81; average cost of each resident pupil, $87.99.

Columbus, O.-J. A. Shawan, superintendent: High-school enrollment, 2,053; cost per pupil on total enrollment, $40.41; cost on average daily attendance, $49.10.

Cleveland, O.-Edward L. Harris, superintendent: The per capita cost is $32.80, based on high-school enrollment, and $39.84, based on average daily attendance.

Cambridge, Mass.- Francis Cogswell, superintendent: Total enrollment: Latin, 472; English High, 572; Manual Training, 212. Average daily attendance: Latin, 385; English High, 491; Manual Training, 183. Cost per pupil on total enrollment: Latin, $52.45; English High, $50.89; Manual Training, $101.32.

Chicago, Ill.-E. G. Cooley, superintendent: Total enrollment, 10,241; cost per pupil on total enrollment, $51.50; cost on average daily attendance, $58.62.

Denver, Colo.-Aaron Gove, superintendent: Total enrollment: High School, 827;