The Republican journal., 1895-10-10
School Statistics.

REPORT OF THE Z. $. COMMISSIONER OF
EDUCATION.
DR.. VIM. T. Harris. United States Com
missioner Of Education, has made public
his report for the year ended Nov. 30,
1898 The report states that in the year
1892 93 the whole number Of pupils en-
rolled in schools and colleges, public and
private, in the United States, was Is, OS3,-
$50, or 22.5 per cent. Of the entire popu-
lation. This was an increase over the
preceding year of $40, 697, and the total
would be increased to 10, 400, 600, if pupils
in attendance upon special educational
agencies were included. The enrolment
of pupils in the public schools for the
year numbered 1870, 719, an increase of
1892 per cent. over the preceding year,
while the average attendance increased
3. 45 per cent.
The details Of attendance show that
children in the United States leave school
for about two tifths of the year to engage
in labor or from other motives. There
were employed in the year 122, O56 male
teachers and 26O, 954 female. There has
been a decrease in the number of male
teachers since 1880, and the number Of
female teachers has increased 70 per cent.
in that period. The number Of school
houses in 1898 was 235, 1926, valued with
their contents and appurtenances at $685.,
435, 039. The school revenue for that year
was Sl65, 600, 600; the total expenditures
We're S163, 900, 600 Of this amount S1O4,
600, 600 was paid for teachers wages; S3l,
600, 600 for the construction of school
houses and SIS, 600. 600 for fuel. supplies,
etc. In the last 20 years, tile value Of
school property in the United States and
the common school expenditure have
more than doubled
The number Of public high schools re-
ported to the bureau in 1893 was 2,Sl2.
employing 8, $50 teachers, and having 232.-
051 pupils enrolled. Reports We're receiv-
academies, employing 6,261 teachers and
giving instruction to 96, LAT pupils. There
We're 45l universities and colleges for men
and for both sexes. Of these SO were CO.
educational, an increase Of 3 per cent in
two years. The total number Of instruc-
tors was l0,247 and OF pupils lao, O53.
Colleges for women alone numbered l43
with 2 ia teachers and l22 $40 students.
These institutions had 5,319, 6O2 volumes
i'll their libraries: their equipment was
valued at S12S, S72, SOL; endowment funds,
SOS, U95, 7O5; income for the year, S17, OIL,
$50, and the benefactions during the year,
IS. lis, 1873. State appropriations for agri-
cultural schools, which received aid from
the United States under the act of 1892,
amounted during the year to 81, 634, is.
AS a result Of professional education in
the year. there were graduated !, 991 medi-
cal students, 1852 dental students, 1894
pharmacists, 6,776 law students and 1886
theological students. Theological schools
are more heavily endowed, compared with
their expenses, than any other class Of in
situations. OF theological students, one
half get their collegiate training in de-
nominational schools, ne-sixth in non
sectarian schools, and only per cent. in
State universities. The graduates Of nor
NAL schools numbered 4, 491; the number
Of students, 53, 465. The amount appro-
priated by States for support Of normal
schools that year was 81, ASP, 914, and for
buildings, 1916, S26.