TABLE 5.-The school enrollment of 1906-7, classified by sex.

population enrolled at different dates.

Percentage of the total

Number of different pupils of all Per cent of the total population

ages enrolled.

enrolled.

Estimated by State superintendent.

1 Returns imperfect.

TABLE 6.—Per cent of the school population (i. e., children 5 to 18 years of age) enrolled in the public schools, for a period of years.

TABLE 7.-The average daily attendance at various periods, and its relation in 1906–7. to the enrollment.

a Approximately.

3,863

10,546

a 15,000

64, 286

27,435 100,966

a 600

a 3,300

17, 178
5, 401

20,967

50, 595

b 60,018

b77.00

5,064

4,698

6,788

70.80

a 9,500

21,962

48, 417

72.59

64, 411 197,395

State or Territory.

1870-71. 1879-80. 1889-90.

TABLE 8.—(1) Average length of school term at various periods; (2) aggregate number of days' schooling given to all pupils; (3) the same compared with the school population and the enrollment (columns 8 and 9).

Average number of days the schools
were kept during the year.a

tendance in
1906-7.

number Average number of days attended by each

18 years of age in

pupil enrolled in 1906-7.

1906-7.

a Certain States report their school term in months; these months have been reduced to days by multiplying by 20 in each case.

b Approximately.

c In 1905-6.

d In 1904-5.

• In 1899-1900.

f In 1902-3.

g In 1901-2.

λ In 1893-94.
i In 1897-98.

TABLE 9.—(1) Length of school term; (2) the aggregate number of days' schooling given compared with the school population.