The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-09-16
ONE new HIGH SCHOOL
EVERY DAY, U. S. MARK


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 construction. The number of high
schools having increased 452 per cent since 1890 to
present total of nearly 1900.
These and other figures on the state of our
-tions kl"h schools were made public today in re-
port BY the United States Bureau of Education
In 1890 only &C per cent of American high schools
according to the report.
The 1851 public high schools of the country
have enrolled an amy of 735619 students. If these
students were stationed at three feet intervals a
line would be formed from Washington, D. c. to
Kansas City.
And is would take highschool inspector walk
ng at the rate of miles hour Al days to review
this "army"
In 1890 but 1882 students were graduated. In
1918 224367 students received their "sheep-skins"
Girl graduates, now as then, exceed the number
Of boys
The American hgh-schoo army of more than
100000 is taught by total faculty of 81 O34 teach
ers In 1890 there were but 9,12O high-schoo teach
orc r = q. ~ EAR
A feature of recent educational development,
the report points out is the increasing dominance OF
women in the hi9h-scLool fiele Today nearly two
thirds of all high-echoo teachers are women.
More than one-tenth Of the inhabitants of the
UNITED States have or had or are having high
school education Five times great proportion
Of American youth are now in class rooms
as there We're in 1890
One-half Of our thirteen thousand-odd public
hioh school have an enrolment of between ~ and
100 students e92 enroll over 500 students and 278
more than 1000
The largest high-schoo in the country is the
polvtechnic Evening high School (for boys) Los
Angeles. Cal with $40 students
The next four in order are:
Commercial Hioh School for boys), Brooklyn
NJ Y enrolment 1908
Norris High School (co-educational) New York
City; 6,735.,
Washington Irving High School (girls), New
York City, 5,785
strvvesant High School (boys), New York City,
$685.
Although one-tenth of all Americans have at
tended or are now enrolled in high schools only one
seventh of tire children who enter the aoe LII
ish high-school .
California with 81 per cert has more OF It's
nonulaton in hh-qschoo class-rooms than the other
states Kansas record is almost as hgh: oouCh
Carolina sat the foot of the highschool attendance
column with but ga trife over one-haf OF one per
cent? in high school. The nationwide average 10
one-half per cent.
Vermont leadc in the matter of hgh-school
-orod1atinns more than one-fourth Of its entering
students Finishing with a high-schoo diploma
Texas has more of it's high-school graduates
CONTINUING their education in college other schools,
more than 60 per cent Of its highschooI graduates
7ntinuing their stduies in some kind of school, %
per cent going to colega Moth Carolina comes
second in this respect and Kentucky third. Rhode
Island Marie Connecticut and Nebraska send the
feweet stduents ir proportion, on to college
The average number Of students taught by one
high school teachers is 2O3 as compared with 25.o
in 1890.
The average high school principal receives
s1272 rar annum The average Of city hlgh school
principals is S2431 rural principals $1134
The District of Columbia pays its principals the
HIGHEST salaries, followed by California Arizona and
New Jersey in the order named
Nebraska paws the lowest salaries to her pI1n-
cipals Name Michigan Indiana and Iowa togther
with several southern commemorative are also
ciassed among the "pcorpayng" states.
The az. rage annual cost of instruction for each