The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-20
are Being Established in This
c,.ntry at Rate Of One Every
nay-Maintained This Rec
ord for 20 Years.
e EXTRAORDINARY GAIN
~. zine Report Has Been Made by
,,,,ted States Bureau Of Educa-
ton Nation Has Fine
Army Of Students.

u.cuJNGTON. Sept. 20.
h;sh schools are being established i
.sa United States at the rate OF on
srery twenty-four hours.
snd for the past twenty-eight year
the United States has maintained
tbis record breaking clip in educa
tional construction. The number o
sigh schools having Increased 452
naTcent since 1890 to present tota
Of nearly 1900.
these and other figures on ths
stata Of our nations high schools
Te ' made public in report by the
tinted States bureau of education.
In 1890 only SO percent of Amerf
can high schools were public, schools
taday 81 percent are public schools
according to the report.
The 1851 public high schools OF
the country have enrolled an army OF
1Ts5.619 students. If these students
we're stationed at three feet intervals
line would be formed from Wash.
ington, D. c., to Kansas City.
And it would take high school
INSPECTOR walking at the rate of three
miles an hour forty-one days to re-
Yiew this army"
In 1890 but 2l,S82 students were
graduated. In 1918. 224367 students
received their "sheep-skins."
Girl graduates, now as then, ex-
coed the number of boys.
The American high school army OF
more than 100000 is taught by a
total faculty of S1,034 teachers. in
1890 there were but 9,12O 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 teachers are women.
More than one-tenth of the inhabi-
.ants of the United States have had
or are having high school educa
ton. Five times as great a proper
tion of American youth are now in
high school class rooms as there We're
In 1890
OnehaIf OF our thirteen thousand
odd public high schools have an en-
rollment of between 81 and 100 stu
dents. 632 enroll over 500 students
and us more than 1000
The largest high school in the
country is the Polytechnic Evening
high school ffor boys) at Los Ange-
les, Calf, with S,440 students. -
The next four in order are:
Commercial high school (for boys),
Bronklyn, n, Y; enrolment 7.50S.
Morris high school (co-education-
il). New York City; 6,734.
Washington Irving high school
girls). New York City: 5,785.
Stuyyesant high school (boys),
New York City; 5,325.
! Although one-tenth of all Ameri-
cans have attended or are now en-
rolled in high schools, only one-sev-
enth OF the children who enter the
nrst grade finish high school.
california, with 81 percent has
more OF its population in high school
claS rooms than the other states.
Kansas recd'd is almost as high.
south Carolina is at the foot of the
nisn school attendance column with
out "a trifie over one-half of one per-
cent in high school, The nation
siae average is one and one-half per-
cent
vermont leads in the matter of
algh school ordinations, more than
.ne!ourth of its entering students
an,shlng with a high school diploma.
iexas has more, of it's high school
slaonates continuing their education
u college or other schools, more
nan bo percent of it's high school
slsdeates continuing their studies in
,ome Kind of school, 4S percent going
- coilege. North Carolina comes
second IN this respect and Kentucky
.hif1. Rhode Island, Maine, Connec-
acut and Nebraska send the fewest
'.uuents, in proportion, on to college.
Inc average number of students
,aught by one high school teacher is
-V 70, as compared with 25.5 in 1890.
me average high school principal
.eeeiVes s1,272 per annum. The aver
!, VS. 10, 81 city high school principals is
f-,rSi' rural principale $1,134.
me District OF Columbia pays it's
,.mcipais the highest salaries, fol- !
ueed by California, Arizona and New
'essey IN the order named.
Nepraska pays the lowest salaries
: her principals. Maine. Michigan.
nu,aha and Iowa together with sew !
10 southern commemorative are
'''o ciassed as "poor-paying" states.