The log cabin Democrat., 1920-09-18
HIGH SCHOOLS DEYOLOP
 RAPIDLY, SAYS REPORT
One New One Every 24 Hours While Students Increase-CalifOrnia
 Leads Per Cent Enrolled.
(By United Press)

dShlnSIOn, sept. 1i.-NeW hlgh schools are being established in the United States at rate of one every twenty-four hours.
 And for the past twenty-eight years the United States has maintained this record breaking clip in educational con struction. The number of high schools having increased 425 per cent since 1890 to a present total of nearly IT ,000 These and other figures on the state of our nations high schools were made public today in a report by the United States bureau of education.
 In 1890 only 50 per cent of Ameri- can high schools were public schools, today 87 per cent are public schools according to the report.
 The 13,591 public schools of the country have enrolled an army of 1,735,619 students If these students were stationed at three feet intervals line would be formed from Washing ton, D. C., to Kansas City. And it would take high school inspector walking at the rate of three miles an hour II days to review this army" In 1890 but 2l,882 students were grad uated. In 1918, 24,367 students re- ceived their "sheep-skins" Girl grad uates, now as then, exceed the number of boys.
 The American high school army of more than HOO ,000 is taught by a total faculty of 81,034 teachers. In 1890 there were but 9,120 high school teachers. A feature of the recent educational development, the report points out, is the increasing dominance of women in the high school field. Today nearly two-thirds of all high school teachers are women.
 More than one-tenth of the inhabi- tants of the United States have had or are having a high school education. Five times as great a proportion of American youth are now in high school class rooms as there were in 1890. One-half of our thirteen thousand odd public high schools have an enrolment of between 27 and 100 students, 632
 
 1000.
 The largest high school in the country is the Polytechnic evening high school (for boys) Los Angeles, Cal, with $40 students. The next four in order are:
 Commercial high school, (for boys)' Brooklyn, N. Y, enrolment 7,508; Morris high school (co-educationaD New York City, 6,735; Washington Irving high school (girls), New York City,5,785; Stuyvesant high school (boys), New York City 5,325.
 Although one-tenth of all Ameri- cans have attended or are now enrolled in high schools, only one-seventh of the children who enter the first grade finish high school.
 California, with 2.7 per cent has more of it's population in high school class rooms than the other states. Kansas record is almost as high. South Carolina is at the foot of the high school attendance column with but "a trifle over one-half of one per cent" in high school, The nation wide average is one-half per cent.
 Vermont leads in the matter of high school graduations, more than one fourth of it's students finishing with a high school diploma.
 Texas has more of it's high school graduates continuing their education in college or other schools. more than 50 per cent of its high school gradu- ates continuing their studies in some kind of school, 48 per cent going to college. North Carolina comes second in this respect and Kentucky third, Rhode Island Maine, Connecticut and Nebraska send the fewest students in proportion, to college.
 The average number of students taught by one high school teacher IS l20.3 as compared with 25.5 in 1890.
 The average high school principal receives $1, ,272 per annum. The aver age of city high school principals is S2,431, rural principals $1,134. The District of Columbia pays it's princi- pals the highest salaries, followed by l Calofornia, Arizona and New Jersey in the order named. Nebraska pays the lowest salaries to her principals. Maine, Michigan Indiana and Iowa together with several southern com monwcalths are also classed among the "poor paying" states
 The average annual cost of instruc- ton for each high school student is $7005, of which. .$59.96 is specifically