CHAPTER XXVI.

[Containing Tables 113-134.]

SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

A.- -GENERAL VIEW OF SECONDARY STUDENTS IN ALL CLASSES OF

INSTITUTIONS.

From returns received by this Bureau from more than 10,000 different institutions it appears that the number of secondary or high school students enrolled in all schools and colleges in the United States was 961,786 for the year ending June,. 1907-a gain of 37,387 over the preceding year. The public high schools alone had an enrollment of 751,081—a gain of 28,389. The secondary students reported for the two years were distributed among eight classes of institutions as follows:

The enrollment of secondary students in public and private institutions is given by geographical divisions for the two years mentioned in the following table, the percentage of increase or decrease being indicated:

Students receiving secondary instruction in public and private high schools and academies and in preparatory departments of colleges and other institutions.

United States.......... 741,950 182, 449 924,399 771,687 190,099 961, 786

The aggregate enrollment in the schools and colleges of the United States for the year ending June, 1907, was 19,370,114. In the elementary schools, public and private, the enrollment was 18,124,933. Of this number, the public elementary schools had 16,820,386, while the estimated number in the private elementary schools was 1,304,547. It will be seen that the 961,786 secondary students comprise nearly 5 per cent of the aggregate enrollment in all the schools. The number of secondary students in both public and private institutions in 1890 was 367,003, or about 5,900 to the million of population; in 1895 the number had increased to 539,712, or 7,900 to the million; in 1900 the number was 719,241, or 9,500 to the million; while for the year 1907 the number of secondary students aggregated 961,786, or about 11,250 to the million population, or over 1 per cent. The following table makes the comparison for each year since 1890:

B.-GENERAL STATISTICS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS.

1. THE TWO CLASSES OF HIGH SCHOOLS CONSIDERED JOINTLY.

While the number of secondary students in the preparatory departments of universities and colleges and other institutions is given above, it has been found impracticable to obtain complete statistics of such departments. The remainder of this chapter will be devoted to a presentation of the statistics of the 10,238 public