DISTRIBUTION OF SECONDARY STUDENTS. The distribution of secondary students enrolled in 1900-1901 in the eight classes of institutions mentioned on the first page of this chapter is shown in Tables 39 and 40, where the statistics are summarized by States. Table 41 shows that the number of secondary students to each 1,000 of population in the United States was 9.53. The same table shows that the number in higher education was 239,837, or 3.10 to the 1,000 of population. This number includes all students who in 1900-1901 were receiving higher instruction in universities and colleges, all professional students, including those in theology, medicine, law, dentistry, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine, and all in training courses for teachers in normal schools. Students in nurse-training schools and business schools are not here included as in either secondary or higher instruction. Table 42 gives statistics of studies in the public high schools of the 50 largest cities. Tables 43 and 44 give in detail the statistics of the 8,210 public and private high schools reporting to this Bureau in 1900-1901. Table 45 shows the number of public and private high schools for boys only, for girls only, and the number of coeducational secondary schools in each State. ESTABLISHMENT OF HIGH SCHOOLS. A recent inquiry sent to the superintendents of public instruction in 160 of the largest cities, those having over 25,000 population, asking for the date of first opening of a public high school, brought 142 responses. Of the 142 cities reporting it appears that 28 had public high schools before the end of the year 1850, in 41 cities such schools were established from 1851 to 1860, inclusive, in 32 cities public high schools were established from 1861 to 1870, inclusive, and subsequent to 1870 such schools have been established in the 41 remaining cities named. In addition to the inquiry as to the date of first opening of a public high school. the superintendent was asked to give the date of establishment of a regular two to four years course in the high school, also the date when the high school began to receive pupils by promotion upon completion of the elementary course of six to eight years, or upon successful examination in the studies of the six to eight years elementary course. Replies to the three inquiries are tabulated in the following table: TABLE 1.-Public high schools-Number of schools, secondary instructors, secondary students, and elementary pupils in 1900-1901. United States.. 6, 318 10, 786 10, 992 21, 778 224, 584 317, 146 541, 7302, 8426, 186 9, 028 65, 900 63, 465 129365 N. Atlantic Division. 1, 477 2,878 4, 115 6,993 74, 014 100, 120 174, 134 266 583 849 17,166 13, 037 30, 203 S. Atlantic Division.. 466 686 579 1,265 11, 283 17,039 28, 322 5731, 4221,995 10, 990 11, 12622, 116 8. Central Division 746 1,081 755 1,836 17, 228 25, 083 42, 311 813 2, 0612, 874 10, 252 10, 459 20, 711 N. Central Division.. 3, 290 5,458 4, 896 10, 354 109, 114 155, 523 264, 637 1, 1242, 027 3, 151 25, 016 26, 144 51, 160 Western Division.... 339 683 647 1,330 12, 945 19, 381 32, 326 66 93 159 2,476 2, 699 5, 175 1,572 2,075 3,647 5 4 389 472 861 Massachusetts. 241 628 989 1,617 16, 747 21,567 38, 314 6 New York 883 806 1,518 2,324 27, 903 New Jersey. 95 201 357 558 Pennsylvania 8. Atlantic Division: 31 37 166 150 816 14 34 48 133 129 262 71 156 227 9,566 5,583 15, 149 42 94 136 693 701 1,394 164 237 2,157 2,405 4,562 0 60 58 118 268 4, 239 4, 461 8,700 740 0 0 0. 556 1,232 1,276 2,508 60 96 119 215 68 505 478 983 162 1,779 1,725 3,504 110 2, 564 2, 473 5,037 31 515 536 1,051 495 1,055 1,101 2,156 495 2,331 2, 190 4,521 109 1,538 1, 529 3,067 503 1,908 1, 956 3,864 73 388 323 711 807 2,270 2,436 4,706 301 554 626 1,180 12 12 24 0 196 286 482 N. Central Division: TABLE 2.-Public high schools-Number of secondary students in college preparatory courses and number of graduates and college preparatory students in graduating class in United States ..15, 380 17, 784 33, 16115, 568 11, 695 27, 263 23, 683 42, 013 65, 6969, 523 11, 017 20, 5409, 632 N. Atlantic Division.. 6, 511 6, 071 12, 582 5, 495 2, 568 8, 063 8, 122 13, 527 21, 649 3, 065 2, 597 5, 6624, 948 S. Atlantic Division.. 976 1,175 2,151 S. Central Division.. N. Atlantic Division: New Jersey. Pennsylvania 483 237 720 952 2,110 3,062 379 452 831 916 877 1,798 1,345 2, 749 4, 094 555 6, 533 13, 683 11, 865 21, 071 32, 9364, 881 1, 480 2,999 1, 399 2, 556 3, 955 643 827 1,382 385 6, 273 11, 154 2,269 868 1,5111, 114 114 331 164 327 270 95 183 3$9 71 202 174 81 155 90 771 1, 523 3, 660 754 1,770 289 167 148 315 119 552 421 973 131 S. Atlantic Division: |