The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-18
TELLS IT ALL.
Superintendent Nelson's Report
Has Wide Scope.
Contains History of All Kansas
Educational Institutions.
CATHOLICS IN LEAD.
Have More UNCONVENTIONAL
Schools Than Any Others.
Population for School Purposes
Is Over 100000.

The forthcoming report of State SUI
oerintendent Frank Nelson concerning
the schools of Kansas will doubtless be
the most valuable report of the kind
ever issued in the state. It will con-
tain, among other new features.
sketch of the history of practically every
educa uOnal institution in the state
The average person little realizes how
many institutions Of this character there
are in Kansas. Superintendent Nelson's
report viii give the names of 151 such in
stitutions. and it will give a history of
from 400 to 500 words of nearly every
one. In few instances Superintendent
Nelson. was unable to secure the data
for the sketches. but in only a very few
instances.
Kansans will be that the Catholics lead
in the number of denominationaI schools
in the state, and that the Quakers and
Lutherans tie for second place. This is
the FIRST time the Catholic institutions
have ever been reported in a state SUI
perntendent' s report.
The classes and numbers of the va
rious oducatio institutions in the
state. other than the common district
and high schools, are as follows:
State educational institutions. 5.
State charitable and corrective insti-
tutions. ..
State penal institutions, 2.
Federal educationals Institutions ?.
Denominational colleges and univer-
sites. 2a
Denominational academies. %.
Private norn7als and universities, 4.
Medical colleges, 2.
Business colleges. %.
Schools of music, 10.
Schools of oratpry and expression, 2.
Schools of shorthand, 3.
Schools of telegra ply. 3.
Young Mems Christian associations
doing educational work. IS.
County high schools. u.
Manual training schools. ).
Consolidated district schools. 3.
The Y. M. c. A s which do educational
work are the Topeka central and To-
peka railroad and the ones at Law
renee, Fort Scott Argentine, Arka nsas
City, COffeyVille, Ellis. LeaVenworth,
Newton, Ottawa, Wichita and. Winfield
Telegraph schools are located at OF
tawa, Topeka and Salina; shorthand
schools at Ottawa and Topeka; schools
of oratory at Topeka and Wichita; and
schools of music at Hays. Girard, Leav-
erworth. Wichita. Winfield, Emporia
and four at Topeka.
In the UNCONVENTIONAL schools the
Catholics lead with fourteen academies
and three colleges. The Friends or
QuakerS have five academies and one
college; the Lutherans three academies
and three colleges; the Episcopalians
two academies and one college; the
Presbyterians one academy and two col
1eges; the Congregationalists one acad-
envy and two colleges. the Ba ptists one
dists four colleges; and the Menno1ites.
United Presbyterians, United Brethren,
Methodist Protestants and German Bap-
lists, one college each The German
Methodists have one academy
The two federal institutions are the
Haskell Indian institute at Lawrence
and the Pottawatonie school at Nadeau.
SCHOOL POPULATION 81, 022
The school population of Kansas this
year shows a considerable increase OF
last year, which was only slightly in ad-
vance of 1900 The increase from 1900
to 1901 was only S43 but the increase
this year is over 5000. Last year the
total school population was sos. 1854. This
year it is 517.022.
Wyandotte county, of course, has the
largest school population. It leads with
| 25. 299 Shawnee county comes second
with 1746S. and SedgWick third with
Il. sol. One county, Morton. has only 80
children of school age. Stanton county
has only III.
The school population by counties is
| as follows:
Allen ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS z, 40s
| Anderson ........ ......-............ A. SOS
! Atchison .....-....... ......-.-....... 10, -:
Barber 1880 -.-----------. -------..--. z,45i
! Barton .......... ..............-..... 4,94.
Bourbon $500. Observation-Disclosures. 9.03;
Brown 7,20.
Butler ........... ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1885
Chase ....-.......... .....-.......... 2.S4s
lChautauqua .-.--... .-....-.-......-..- 4.4SS