TABLE 5.-Students and graduates in combined courses in business schools, 1911–12.

TABLE 6.-Students and graduates in English courses in business schools, 1911-12.

Students.

United States.

168

7,730

4,634 12,264

416

North Central Division.

1,486

South Atlantic Division.

South Central Division.

Western Division...

57

33

407

38

20

250

40

222

94

17

276 1,006

25

4

TABLE 7.-Students and graduates in telegraphy in business schools, 1911–12.

TABLE 8.-Students in commercial and business courses in private high schools and academies and in public high schools, 1911-12.

CHAPTER XI.

STATISTICS OF SCHOOLS FOR NEGROES.

To facilitate a separate study of negro education the statistical facts concerning negro schools are here brought together. This information is also included in the general educational- statistics of preceding chapters.

That there is a healthy increase in public high schools for negroes may be inferred from the following comparison covering the past three years:

Of nearly 400 schools for negroes above elementary grade, other than public high schools, the bureau received returns from 258 in 1912, or 20 more than for the preceding year. The statistics of these schools will be found in Tables 2, 3, and 4.

TABLE 1.-Teachers and students in public high schools for the negro race, 1911-12.