Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-06
.I0IAL0F 1900 !
,U.S;H|GH'ScHQQLS
Shown N. REPORT
Increase of 4452 Per Cent
Since $780,, Bureau,.o
Education States.

Education States.
Nearly $4,000 public high schools
are In; the United States .oaay -
corning to figures compiled nv III.
Chited States bureau Of eanc,+;on
7 rms is an increase. Of mora IT,. Ira
per cent since 1890.
and private high schooIs ~ puDllc
e etea1ed separately. only Sos nor nant
-. the nigh schools Of the cnu ntr,t
sWxnere under public control wh;ia <,
1 Sao 81 per cent. were SO reported Ia
scb, also. Ss per cent Of ali high
91.2 in 1918. rose 10
.c psne.half Of the 1891, public b;p,
s sG reporting to the burean ~
tH aeon nave an enrolment Of he-
Nv, een. tWenty-seven and 100 students
put it is OF interest to note thet
enno, naeh schools have very large
eenroiimeHt. Altogether sac schnois
ss ~ more than SEQ students eacf
frn SN enroll more than 1000 each.
de:dns the n. size. Of. the high schools
.tuJ or an enriched program ~
studies. for with the large hiRh achooi
sones larger teaching stan and q :,
opportunity to offer commercial. home
trade nics. manual training and
schoo,s WORK: while the smaller, high
esacners. cannot hope to OFFER sd
Heat variety Of training, and usual.
unit their. activities to the AGA.
oSmlcs. with possibly, small amount
~ work in agriculture. Athletics.
.nese smaller schools. :"
Five
The five largest high schools ;, ~,
United States reporting to the ~,
ieau q education in 1sl7-1s. Accord
lug 20 ngures complied by H. r. Ron.
ner Of the bureau. are:
~. T.. folytschnic Evening High. Schoo,
roIImenff ss' - los Angeles, Calf; en-
h.. Commercial High School ffor
1sys' Brooklyn, N. r; enrolment.
3. Morris High School fco-educ.
s s,9ssp' New York., n. y, enroilmsnt,
-. Washington Irving Hixh scboo,
m NOR eirls,: New York: N. =. enroll
.: stuypesant High schoo, ffor
sse aps New York. n. ": enrolment.
The number of city high school.
Sonstlfutes less than 10 ner cant 10
t the tosai number Of high. schools, but
smey enrol 81 per cent of the, total
ns.noer 81 students. Almost S5 nsr
S Snt ,ea the high schools are rural.
Per ceRtcof the students.
me average size of a CITY hi~h
sSnooi IS 500 students.awhile. thu ~
Eural nigh Is only So. The, VILLAGE. hixh
s s;nn occupy An intermediate posi-
More, than 7snpsr cent Of oil. hill,
schools offer a four-year course and
"a tneee schools are enroiied Hmore
tlan IS per cent Of the total numhsr
OF students. 1t is highly sirntfjcant
mat only 51per cent Of the stndenfs
attending high school do, not have the
hhS; 1919 or taking a four-year
the three-year high schools .annualiy
evolve into four-year high Schools
even this meager 5 per cent is now.
un9vestionably too large.
MMie !6.2 per cent Of all high
schools offer a four-yearf course. SIS
Der cent of these are open from Isl
TO $50 days during theqyear. The mum
Der aof three-year course schools ia
surprisingly large. but srepreseats
only 2 small yperceatage of the NUNS
Der Of students.
iThsee hundred land eighty-eisht
schools have a term sof 40 days or
fewer, and Of. theses 60 ARE. I'M hndiapa3
30 in North Caroline, t49 in Pennsyil
valia aud go In Texas. Altogethepl
9.1s6 high school students have IA
term no longer than TAO days. and
2. 11ss schools with enrollpaents Of ga
cs7 students run from III to 1so. days.
Of which schools s9aare in FlerAda, 473
In EHdiana. lat In Missouri, 1913 iH
North Carolina. 285 in Ohio, 800 in
Pennsylvania, ia In Texas, and .f20
In Virginia. From which facts 1t iis
seen that very many schools in eerl
in of.tno orn N An 40; nn1 Nat ,,o.n M.
than eight months in the year.
Since 1902 the number Of woman
teachers has been increasing mach
than the number Of man
seachers; In fact. aat the present time:
anly about "a per cent cot sall high
school teachers are men.
In 1890 only s.120 high school
IeacheFs were employed, hut in 'f918s
here were fS1,034 teachers engaged
Tor purely secondary school work
instructors In the ceae-i
,ssoo1ss. Win ssass the o. aeseasDs,.ns &
The present high school movement
many new teaching positions lhave
,een created. and IN the mast tssenty-i
siEht years this demand for high
school teachers has increased eight
,old.
TeeaAiog TLAoads DesFaase.
The teaching load, or sthe average
IUHUcT Oh aVU4&GuGS 10 10 tBktsblcEs las
decreased from 1855 in l19e0 ITO .20.3 in
1913, which decrease implies that the
high schools are gradually rgtving a. I
sfeater opportunity for more iinten-if
1--WE work. II
Nevada has fewer students to a.
,eacfer than any other state in the
Union. and Geo1gia has a larger num-3t
ser of students to a teacher than anyi
,ther state. II
Rural high schools have generally
mall teaching loads. and the teach
ng load in city high schools quite;f
frequently extends beyond twenty
schools have tendency to overload
he teaching force. II
The total number of high schooll
students Gncluding .90,44S pupils in
he elementary grades of junior high !
,chools) enrolled in the 1851 high
schools from which these statistics i
we're prepared is ,1.7a5s6fs. II these |
,tudents were stationed at intervals |
II three feet they would form a line +