The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
HIGH SCHOOLS IF LAND ALL CROWDED ]
Boys And Girls No Longer "Quit School" At End
 Of Seventh Grade

CHICAGO. Oct 13.-(By Associated Press )-If the boy or girl who for merly quit school at the end of the seventh or eighth grade is not actu- ally becoming extinct his ranks are being decimated annually, according to, reports covering an average ten year period compiled from the of- fees of public instruction in ten cen tr&l states.
 The percentage ofs increased high school attendance for the period was taken as the medium for estimate The average increase figure for the decade was found to be 95.4 per cent with extremes ranging between l,0ou per cent, the figure reported by Okla- homa, to 40 per cent, that of Iowa.
 While the figures do not unquali- f1edly represent the increased propor- tion of grade school students entering high schools--the factor of increasing population applying largely in newer states-they do indicate that the former gulf existing between the former grade and high school gradu- ally is being eliminated.
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 In Oklahoma, according to a state ment issued by Luther Russell, state high school inspector. the increase In II years from 1910 to 1921 was from e,125 to e2,021, or 1000 per cent Fig ures supplied by the department of education of Kentucky set the in- crease from 1856 in 1913, to 36,0OO in 1923-an advance of 203 per cent, while in South Dakota the total num- her of high school students in 1922 19,6S3, represented jump of 162 per cent from the 7509 enrolled In 1912
 Vernon M. Reigel, state director of education for Ohio, gave the increase in that state as 120 per cent, an ad- vance from S0609, 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 ort of school into work" Thomas D. Johnson, superintendent of public instruction of Michigan, reported the increase there at from 49,46S in 1912, to 106496 in 1922, an increase of 115 per cent.
 High school attendance in Kansas has increased S6 per cent 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,o32 compared with 72,774 in 1922.
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 70 Per Cent Increase.
 A jump of 70 per cent in high gChOOI aJLenQanCe ITOH 1oIo lo ASH" was reported by Leonard B. Job, as sistant state superintendent of public instruction of Indiana. The exact increase was given as from 59,S22 m 1913 to an etimated total Of lO1,4z 10 in the latter year. Compulsory at- tendance up to the age of 16~years, was given principal credit Tor the good showing.
 The per cent of increase during the last decade for Illinois was set at 42 by Francis G. Blair, state superin- tendent of public instruction. Totai high school enrolment in 1912 was 74s56S and in 1922, 163,097.
 Bringing the high school to the pupil" by means of establishing rr'- ral high schools in connection with consolidated schools and merging the eighth grades with the high school by creation of junior high schools Is noted by Miss May F. Francis, 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 enrolment grew from 45,235 to 63,2l7, an advance of 40 per cent, she said.
 Texas proved no exception. In the fve-year period since 1918 the in- crease in high school attendance has been 35 per cent, or growth from 125,0O0 to 175.000 in the period, ac- cording to $. M. N. Marrs, state su- perintendent of public instruction.
 Figures issued by the state depart ment of education of Wisconsin, with offices in Madison, ct the increae tthere at S1 per cent, or gain of from 4O,012 in 1912 to 72,423 in 1922.