The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-16
one new HIGH SCHOOL /:
/ EVERYDAY EU. S. MARK
Report Shows Nation Has Kept
up Record Clip for Past
Twenty-eisht Years

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schools are being established in the
United States at the rate Of one every
twenty four hours. X Z +
And for the past q Eight
years tile United States has main
tanned, this record breaking clip in
educational construction. The num-
Der Of high schools having increased
452 per cent since 1890 to a present
! total Of nearly 1900. =
These are other figures on the
state of our nations high schools
were made public today in a report
| by the United States Bureau Of Edu-
cation. a.: ~. 3.
IN 1890 only 60 per cent of Ameri-
can high schools were public, today
81 per cent are public schools accord
ing to the report. =. =
The 1854 public high schools OF
the country have enrolled an army of
l'1,735,619 students. > If these students
were stationed at three feet intervals
line would be formed from Wash
ington, D. c., to Kansas City. -.
And 1t would take a high school in
spector walking at the rate Of 3 miles
an hour II days to, review this
army"
In 1890 but 1882 students were
graduated. In 1918, 224,367 stu
dents received their. "sheep-skins."
Girl graduates, now as then, ex-
ceeded the number ot-boys.' >
The American high school army OF
more than 100000 is taught by a
total faculty Of 81, 034 teachers. In
1890 there were but 1920 high
school teachers. 4 ...... %. =. ~. =
A feature Of recent educational de-
velopment, the report points out, is
the increasing, dominance Of women
in the high school field. Today near
of all high school teach
ers are women. 4 - n 'sv~@'f
More than one-tenth of the ,inhabi-
tants of the United States have had
or are having 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. - :.4. -. ( = : = s's.'t,~<
One-half of our thirteen thousand
odd public high schools have an en-
rollment of between 81 and 100 stu
dents, 623 enroll over 500 students
and 278 more than 1000.
The largest high school in the
country is the Polytechnic Evening
high school flor boys) Los Angeles,
Cal, with $40 students.
The next four in order are:
Commercial High school (for boys)
Brooklyn, N. Y, enro1lemnt Z, sos.
Morris High school (co-education'
al) New York city, 6,785.
Washington. Irving High school
Hgirls), New York~city, 5,785.
Stuyvesant High school (boys)
New York city, ,5,325.
\ Although one-tenth Of all Ameri'
cans have attended or are now enroll
ed In high schools, only one-setenth
Iof the children who enter the first
grade finish high school. -
! California, with ~ per cent hat
more of its population in high school
class rooms than the other states
Kansas record is almost as high
South Carolina is at the foot OF the
high school attendance column with
but a "trifle over one-half Of one pei
cent" in high school, The nation
i wide average is one and One-half pei
cent.
! Vermont leads in the :. matter: Of
high school graduatlons,1 more than
one fourth Of, its entering students
finishing with, a high school diploma
Texas has more OF its high school
graduates continuing their education
i in college or other schools, more than
60 per cent of its high school gradu'
, ates continuing their studies in some
kind Of, school. 4s per cent going to
; college. North Carolina comes Sec
ond in this respect and Kentucky
third. j.. Rhode Island. Maine, Con
necticut and Nebraska send the few
est students, in proportion, on to col:
i lege,
The average number Of students
taught by one high school teacher
is 2O.3 as compared with 25.5 In
1890. - -" SO ;.
The average high school principal
receives $1,272 per annum. The av'
erage Of city high school principally Il
$2,431. rural principals 1874. -
The District Of Columbia pays 1T
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