The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-21
GAIN IN RURAL HIGH
SCHOOL PUPILS
Both Enrolment And Attendance
Nearly THRILLED In Decade

Both Enrolment And Attendance
Nearly Tripled In Decade
Approximately 10000 pupils now
are enrolled in the approved high
schools of the counties as compared
with 1000 ten years ago, according
to report made public by the state
Board of. Education. In the period
attendance has nearly tripled, mount
ing from $500 to 1900. The
increase in enrolment from 1925 to
1926 was 1858 and in attendance
1874, or a gain of eight per cent.
The establishment of additional
high schools is, in part, responsible
for the increase in enrolment and
attendance, the report stated. In
example, it was pointed out pro-
vision for public high schools In
Southern Maryland, has been a de-
velopment OF the last few years. In
1920, there were in the State only
eighty-two high schools for white
pupils and four for colored which
met the requirements for approval
by the State Board of Education.
At present there are $50 white and
sixteen colored approved secondary
schools, so that the increase in in
situations in six-year period mas
been sixty-eight for white and twelve
for colored pupils.
The fact that there were only
two more high schools for white
students last year, than in 1925 in
dicates, it was said, that the number
of schools now established for whites
is rapidly approaching the total
needed in most of the counties.
Few high schools were founded
last year at Cumberland, Allegany
county; West Friendship, Howard
county; Bethesda, Montgomery coun-
ty, and at Maryland Park, Prince
George county. High schools at
W. e, Frederick county, and
d ll, Prince Georges county,
" Established.
= tito of the number of pupils
attenN@ high schools for white
childreHSfn, the counties to the com
bined enrolment of elementary and
secondary schools is increasing
steadily each year, according to the
report. or every 100 white pupils
belonging" to county schools, fifteen
were in the high schools in 1926,
while in 1918, only, seven OF every
100 were found in the secondary
institutions, it is explained.
Each year, it was pointed out, one
more out of every one hundred white
pupils in the counties goes on to the
last four years of high school work.
Last years total of 1856 white high
school. pupils is 15.1 per cent OF the
combined enrolment, an increase OF
o per cent over the ratio for 1925.
Eastern Shore parents seem. more
anxious to provide high lchool
education for their children than
those of any other part of the State,
the report asserts. In the table
showing the percentage of pupils in
each county enrolled in the high
schools, Worcester county leads with
I'll per cent; Talbot is second with
2O.6 per cent; while Wicomico, with
1875 per cent; Dorcester with 1872
per cent; Somerset 1873 per cent;
Caroline 1876 per cent; Kent 1873,
4 and Queen Anne's with 17.S per cent,
FOLLOW in the order named
Z 1.-THE largest increase in percent
age, 81 per, cent, over 1925, was
registered in st. Mary's county.
OF the 166 white and colored high
schools in the State, 128 offer four
year courses. Pupils taking courses
in the schools which made only two
or three years work. take the last
one or two years OF the course in the
first group of schools. In 1920, only
thirty-four schools for white pupils
offered full course, whereas the
number for 1926. was 100.