PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS, 1914-15.

There were 13,922 public and private high schools in 1915, with an aggregate enrollment of 1,484,028 students, an increase of 110,367 over the preceding year. This is an increase of more than 100 per

cent in enrollment since 1902.

The proportion of students completing the high-school course continues to increase from year to year. In 1915 the fourth-year students numbered 212,981, or 14.43 per cent of the total enrollment. In 1907 the percentage of fourth-year students was 12.25.

The four-year high school shows a steady growth. Of the 11,674 public high schools, 8,440 have four-year courses and an enrollment of 1,236,099 students. This number is 93.01 per cent of the total public high-school enrollment in 1915, as compared with 88.07 per

cent in 1909.

The estimated cost of the public high schools in 1915 was $77,000,000. This estimate is based upon the returns from 3,044 public high schools summarized in Table 13. In this tabulation it was necessary to eliminate the financial statements of all schools in which high-school cost was not clearly separated from elementary-school expenditure. The 3,044 public high schools represented in Table 13 had 387,003 students and an aggregate income of $22,515,296, indicating a per capita cost of $58.18.

I Ratio of enrollment to public high-school enrollment.

Distribution of public high schools with reference to length of course, 1914–15.

Number and per cent of students in each year of high-school course in schools reporting, by

grades.

1907-8.

Total..

Public high schools. 11,515 1,218,804 497,110 40. 79 325,960 26.74 Private high schools. 2,082 145,673 50, 613 34.74 39,018 26.79 13,597 1,364,477 547,723 40. 14 364,978 26.75

Public and private high-school students, classified by years of course and by sex, 1914–15. Third year. Fourth year.

Schools.

Schools First year.
report-
ing.

Second year.

Public high schools...
Private high schools..
Total.....

Total.

Boys. Girls. Boys. Girls. Boys. Girls. Boys. Girls. Boys. Girls. 11,674 257, 188 285, 838 160, 146 194, 559 106, 471 138,909 77, 639 108, 234 601, 444 727, 540 12, 136 23,745 26,921 18,622 20,474 14, 227 15,997 12,721 14,387 69,315 77,779 13, 810 280, 933 312, 759 178, 768 215, 033 120, 698 154, 906 90,360 122, 621 670, 759 805, 319 1 112 private high schools did not report enrollment by years.

Public and private high schools since 1889–90.

Per cent of num-
ber of schools.

Public. Private.

Relative progress of public and private high schools in 25 years.

Year reported.

DENOMINATIONAL AND NONSECTARIAN SCHOOLS.

Of the 2,248 private high schools and academies reporting in 1915 there were 1,586 under the control of religious denominations. These schools had 9,126 teachers and 103,829 students of high-school grade. The 662 nonsectarian institutions had 4,900 teachers and 51,215 students in the high-school grades. Table 21, in four parts, gives, by States, the enrollment in the schools of each of the 12 denominations having more than 1,000 high-school students. The following synopsis shows the number of high schools and academies controlled by each of 29 denominations, the teaching force, and the high-school enrollment:

Denominational high schools and academies.

Religious denominations.

Advent Christian..

Baptist..

Brethren.

Christian

Christian Science.

Church of God.

Congregational.

Episcopal.

Evangelical.
Friends.

Holiness.

Jewish.

Latter-day Saints.

Lutheran.

Mennonite..

Methodist.

Methodist Episcopal South.

Moravian..

Nazarene

New Church..

Pentecostal..

People's Mission..

Presbyterian.

Reformed.

Roman Catholic..

Schwenkfelder..

Seventh-day Adventist..

Swedenborgian.

Universalist.

Total.

For 15 years or more, beginning with 1890, the number of students in each leading high-school study was reported to the Bureau of Education. It is now deemed sufficient to collect this information every five years. Table 34 is a recapitulation showing for 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, and 1915 the number of public high-school students pursuing each of the leading secondary studies, with percentages for each year based upon the total number in the schools reporting this information.

It will be noted that the percentage of students in Latin increased from 34.69 in 1890 to 37.32 in 1915, while the percentage shown for Greek was 3.05 in 1890 and 0.29 in 1915.