The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-09-23

United States at the rate OF one
every twenty-four hours.
And for the past twenty-eight years
this record breaking clip in educa-
tional construction. The number Of
high schools having increased 452
per cent since 1890 to present total
Of nearly 10000
These and other figures on the
state Of our nations high schools
were made public today in report
by the United States Bureau of Edu-
cation.
In 1890 only 60 per cent of Ameri
can high schools were public schools
today 81 per cent are public schools
according to the report
The 1851 public high schools Of
the country have enrolled an army
OF 1735619 students. If these stu
dents were stationed at three feet in
tervals a line would be formed from
Washington, D. c., to Kansas City.
And it would take a high school
inspector walking at the rate of 3
miles an hour Al days to review this
army"
In 1890 but 21,SS2 students were
graduated. In 1918, 224,S67 students
received their "sheep-skins."
Girl graduates, now as then, ex-
coed the number of bows
The American high-school army of
more than 100000 is taught by a
total faculty Of 81,034 teachers. In
1890 there were but 9-12O high-schooI
teachers.
A feature of recent educational de-
Velopment, the report points out, is
the increasing dominance of women
in the high school field Today near
ly two-thirds of all high school teach
ers are women.
More than one-tenth of the inhabi-
tants of the United States have had
or are having a high school educa-
ton. Five times as great proper
ton of American youth are now in
high school class rooms as there were
in 1890.
pne-half Of our thirteen thousand
odd public high schools have an en-
rollment Of between q and 100 stu
dents, 632 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, :
Cal with S,44O students.
The next four in order are:
Commercial High School (for boys)
Brooklyn, ~ Y; enrolment 1903.
Morris High School (co-education-
all New York City; 6,7S5. 8
Washington Irving High School ?
(girls), New York City; 5,7S5. u
Stuyvesant High School (boys), 9
New York City; 5,325.
Although one-tenth Of all Ameri- {
cans have attended or are now en-
oiled in high schools, only one
seventh of the children who enter
he firstgrade finish high school.
California, with 27 per cent has
more of its population in high school "
'lass-rooms than the other states. :.
Kansas record is almost as high .,
South Carolina is at the foot of the :,
ligh school attendance column with :
tut "a trifle over one-half of one
'er cent" in high school. The ma ;,
average is one and one-half =,
er cent.
Vermont leads in the matter of :"
Ugh school graduations, more than
ne-fourth Of its entering students -
with high school diploma. -
Texas has more of its high school
raduates continuing their education -
college or other schools, more 20
IAN 60 per cent of its high school
raduates continuing their studies in
1me kind of school, AS per cent
Ding to college. North Carolina coi
1mes second in this respect and IL"
entucky third. Rhode Island, ma
Iaine, Connecticut and Nebraska spt
md the fewest students, in proper
on, on the college. SUI
The average number of students the
ught by one high school teacher sal
20.S as compared with 255 in ele'
90. dat
The average high school principal bea
ceives $l,272 per annum. The aver get
e of city high school principals is
4S1, rural principals $1,1S4. JAF
The District of Columbia pays its
ncipals the highest salaries, fol-
we'd by California, Arizona and G,
W Jersey in the order named. in
Nebraska pays the lowest salaries won
her principals. Maine, Michigan, metl
lana and Iowa together with sew 1O-yt
southern commonwealth are Was
classed among the "poor-payng" for
es. men
he average annual cost of in ing
IctiOn for each high school SIN Sout