New Britain herald., 1926-08-05
STATISTICS ON
 SCHOOLS OF STATE
How Educational Systems Stand
 From Several Angles
nr croRGr B. MANNING


 Washington Bureau of the N. B. Herald )
 Washington. D. C.. Aug. 5. = Connecticut's school system dumped in two years from twentieth place to fourteenth place, according to a classification of the school systems of the 4S states and the District of Columbia made by Dr. Frank M. Phillips, chief of the Statistical Di- vision of the United States Bureau of Education.
 Dr. Phillips explained that his findings were based on survey made by use of the index number method"
 Items taken into consideration in reaching the conclusions, he said were the percentage of school popn- lation from 5 to IT years of age, in elusive, in daily attendance; average days attended by each child to lt years of age, inclusive; average number of days on which schools were in session: percentage Of the total enrolment in high schools; ratio of boys and girls in high schools; average expenditure per child attending the schools; average ependiture per teacher, employed; expenditure per pupil for purposes other than teachers salaries; and expenditures per teacher for saia- ries.
 Connecticut was one of only four states in which the number or poys exceeded the number of girls In the -AtsA- schools, .and-the- ratio for con necticut in this request was the highest of the states, there being 1O7.s1 boys for every 100 girls ID the Connecticut high schools.
 The Nutmeg state also ranked very high in the average number or days in the sessions, being excelled ! only in Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and New York, and equalled by Illinois.
 According to another method ol ranking the school systems, Con necticut advanced from 24th to 25rd nIace between 1922 and 1924, the last year for which statistics are available.
 Connecticut's rank in the different items in this classification is; Fifth in the average number of days schools were in session: seventh Tn the average number of days attend ed by each child enrolled, and ID the average annual salary of teach CTS. principals, and supervisors; twentieth in the total cost. exciud- ing salaries, per pupil in average daily attendance: 2ist in the ratio of the number of children in average daily attendance; 22nd in the total amount expended per child of school age; 27th In the percentage the high school enrolment is or the total enrolment; 33rd in the percentage of illiteracy of persons over 10 years old in 1920, and In the percentage of high school gradu- ates continuing their education the next year after graduation; and 45th in the ratio of the number of stu dents taking teacher-traiHing cours- es to the total number of tslchsrs employed.
 According to the first method of classification. Connecticuts index numbers in tine different items were as follows, 100 being the ideal fig ure in each case: Percentage of to- tai school population of years 5-l7 inclusive in daily attendance, 66.4S; average days attended by each child 5-17 years old inclusive. COST: av- craze number of school days in ses- sion, 91.5; percentage high school enrolment is of total enrolment, 41.43; ratio of boys and girls in high schools, 107.91; average ex- penditure per child attending. SOTO; average expenditure per child of school age, 40.33; average expendi- ture per teacher employed, 64.5S; expenditures per pupil for purposes other than teachers salaries, 53.2o; expenditures per teacher for salaries 72.57.
 The general index number of Con- necticut's school system, under this method Of classification, is 65.95, which is 5.44 higher than the index number for the United States.