The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-10-10
STUDENTS STAY
IN HIGH SCHOOL
PERCENTAGE YOUNG PEOPLE CO.
ING BEYOND GRADES is STEAD
lily INCREASING

Chicago-(A. P.)-If the boy or girl
who formerly "quit school, at the end
of the seventh or eighth grade is not
actually becoming extinct his ranks
are being decimated annually accord
ig 20 reports covering an average ten
year period compiled from the offices
of public instruction in ten central
states.
The percentage of increased high
school attendance for the period was
taken as the medium for estimate.
The average increase figure for the
decade was found to 95.4 percent, with
extremes ranging between 1000 per-
cent, the figure reported by Oklaho
ma to 40 per cent that of Iowa.
While the figures do not unquali-
fiedly represent the increased proper
tion of grade school-the factor of
increasing population applying large
ly in newer states-they do indicate
that the former gulf existing between
the eighth grade and high school
gradually is being eliminated.
In Oklahoma, according to a state
ment issued by Luther Russell. state
high school inspector, the increase in
IL years from 1910 to 1921 was from
6-125 to 62,O21, or 1000 percent
education of Kentucky set the in
crease from II ,S56 in 1913, to Sc 900 in
1923-an advance of 203 percent,
while in South Dakota the total num-
Der of high school students in 1922,
1868, represented jump of 162 per-
cent from the 1909 enrolled in 1912.
Vernon M. Reigel, state director of
education for Ohio, gave the increase
in that state as 120 percent, and ad-
vance from $4,000, the figure for 1912,
to 17S,705, that for 1922.
Voicing the belief that the showing
in his state was particularly good in
view of the strong call of the many
Industries of the state ''for boys to get
out of school into work" Thomas e.
Johnson, superintendent of public in
StructiOn of Michigan, reported the
increase there at from 49, 9,466 in 1912,
to 106, ,496 in 1922, an increase of 115
percent
High school attendance in Kansas
has increased Sc percent during the
last ten years, according to j. w
Miley, state superintendent of public
instruction, who placed the figure for
total attendance in 1913 at 39,032 COM
pared with 72,774 in 1922.
A jump of 70 percent in high school
attendance from 1913 to 1923 was re
ported by Leonard B. Job, assistant
state superintendent of public in
struction of Indiana. The exact in
crease was given as from 59,822 in
1913 to an estimated total of 101, ,425
in the latter year. Compulsory at
tendance up to the age of 16 years,
was given principal creit for the
good showing.
The percent of increase during the
last decade for Illinois was set at AZ
by Francis G. Blair, state superin-
tendent of public instruction. Total
high school enrolment in 1912 was
74,56S and in 1922, 163,097.
Bringing the high school to the
pupil by means of establishing rural
high school in connection with con-
solidated schools and merging the
eighth grades with the high school
by creation of junior high schools is
noted by Miss May E. Frances, state
superintendent of public instruction
of Iowa, as influencing the greater
proportional gain in high school at
tendance in that state during the last
decade. Between 1910 and 1920 the