The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-09-25
New High School
Each Day In The y. S.

Washington, September New high schools are being
established in the United States at the 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 construc-
ton. The number of high schools having increased ASP per
cent since 1890 to a present total Of nearly $1,000. 49,
These and other figures on the state OF the Natlons nign
schools were made public to-day in a report by the United
States Bureau of Education.
In 1890 only 60 per cent of American high schools were
public schools, to-day 81 per cent are public schools, according
to the report.
The 1851 public high schools of the country have en-
rolled an army Of 1,735,619 students. If these students were
stationed at three feet intervals a line would be formed from
Washington to Kansas City.
And it would take a high school Inspector walking at the
rate of three miles an n hour f9rty-one days to review this army,
4,367 students received their sheep-skins.
The American high school army of more than i, 100000 is
taught by a total faculty of 81,O34 teachers. In 1890 there
were but 9,120 high school teachers.
A feature of recent educational development, the report
points out, is the increasing dominance of women In the high
school field. To-day nearly two-thirds of all high school teach
More than one-tenth of the inhabitants of the United States
have had or are having a high school education. Five times as
class rooms as there were in 1890.
One-half of the thirteen thousand-odd public high schools
have an enrolment of between twenty-seven and 100 students,
6s2 enroll over 500 students and 27s more than 1000.
The largest high school in the country is the polytechnic
evening high school for boys, Los Angeles, with S,44O students.
The next in order are:
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Washington Irving high school, girls, New York City, 5,785
Stuyvesant high school, boys, New York City, 1925.
Although one-tenth of all Americans have attended or are
now enrolled in high schools, only oneseventh of the children
who enter the first grade finish high school.
California, with OF per cent has has more of its population
in high school class-rooms than the other States. Kansas rec
ord is almost as high. South Carolina is at the foot of the high
school attendance column with but a trife over one-half of one
per cent in high school,. The nationwide average is one and
one-half per cent.
Vermont leads in the matter of high school graduations,
more than onefourth of its entering 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 6Opercent
of its high school graduates 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 Is
land, Maine, Connecticut and Nebraska send the fewest stu
dents, in proportion, to college.
The average number of students taught by one high school
teacher is 2O.3 as compared with 25.5 in 1890.
The average high school principal receives 81 ,272 per an
mum. The average of city high school principals is So, 431, rr-
al principals 81 ,134.
The District of Columbia pays its principals the highest sal
aries, followed by California, Arizona and New Jersey in the or
der named.
Nebraska pays the lowest salaries to her principals. Maine,
Michigan, Indiana and Iowa togetherwith several southern COM
monwealths are also classed among the poor paying States.
The average annual cost of instruction for each high school
student is $7O.O5, of which $59.9 SO is specifically for teaching.