INTRODUCTORY SURVEY.

By ALEX SUMMERS,

Statistician, Bureau of Education.

Beginning with Chapter III, about 600 pages of this volume are

devoted to the educational statistics of 1913, collected by the Bureau

of Education by direct correspondence with city school systems,

universities, and colleges, and other institutions of higher education,

public and private high schools, and other schools above the grade

of elementary.

The statistics of State common-school systems for 1912 are tabu-

lated in Chapter I from reports furnished by the State superintendents.

The difficulty of securing prompt returns from minor school officers

made it impossible to secure consolidated public school reports from

most of the States for 1913 in time for publication in this volume.

The comparative summaries presented in these introductory pages

belong to 1912 and former years.

The school and college enrollment for 1912 aggregated 21,102,113,

as shown in the last line of Table 1. This number includes 823,673

in miscellaneous schools. In the tables which follow, this number is

not considered, the summaries being based upon the total 20,278,440,

as given in the first part of Table 1.

TABLE 1.-School and college enrollment in 1912.

TABLE 2.-Pupils and students of all grades in both public and private schools and

colleges, 1912-PART I.

TABLE 2.-Pupils and students of all grades in both public and private schools and

colleges, 1912-PART II.

Students receiving higher instruction.

States.

In universities and

colleges.

In schools of medicine,

law, and theology.

In normal schools.

Public. Private. Total. Public. Private. Total. Public. Private. Total.

TABLE 2.--Pupils and students of all grades_in_both_public and private schools and

colleges, 1912-PART III.

TABLE 2.-Pupils and students of all grades in both public and private schools and colleges, 1912-PART IV.