The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-09
PUBLICSCHOOL GRADUATES
in COUNTIES SHOW GAIN
Statement of Department of Ed
ucatiOn Says Increase in 1929
over Previous year Is $40

Last years record of the county
white elementary schools showed an
increase of graduates and decrease
in the number of failures as compared
with 1928, according to a statement
issued Saturday by the State Depart
ment of Education.
The number of gradutes was 1928
-4,742 youths and 5,186 girls-an
increase of $40 over 1928.
eff the school population were sta
tionary," the statement continued,
and every pupils completed grade
each year and remained to the end of
the elementary school course in a
county having seven grades, the max
imum possible number of graduates
for each one hundred elementary
school pupils enrolled would be 14.3,
and in a county having eight grades
1875.
Variation In Counties
"The various counties having seven
grades ranged from 1877 graduates in
Cecil to S.4 in Calvert for each one
hundred white elementary school pu-
pills enrolled in 1929, and for the eight
grade counties the. variation from in
Washington to IL in Anne Arundel.
"From 1928 to 1929 the number
and per cent of elementary school
graduates increased in all except
eight of the counties. Cecil, Frederick,
Montgomery, Garrett, st. Mary's,
Worcester and Somerset showed large
increases in both the number and per
cent of boys and girls graduated. On
the other hand, Wicomico, Talbot,
Queen Anne's, Baltimore, Hartford and
Charles counties lowered their rank
appreciably because of decrease in
number and per cent of graduates.
Baltimore, Calvert and Howard coun-
ties are the only ones in the State in
which the number and per cent of boy
graduates exceed the number of girl
graduates.
Accompanying an increase in the
number of graduates is a decrease in
the number and per cent of pupils
in the white elementary schools who
were not promoted. In 1928 there were
22,021 pupils not considered by teach
ers ready to undertake the work of
higher grade By 1929 this number
had been reduced to 14,756, or IA per
cent of the white elementary school
pupils enrolled.
"The. disparity between failures of
boys and girls continues to the advan-
tage of the girls. The per cent of boys
who failed in 1929 is practically the
same as the per cent of girls who
failed in 1923-just over II per cent.
In 1923, over 25 per cent of the boys
were not promoted. There are, there
fore, 8.5 out of each 100 in 1929 who
were ready for work in higher grade
who in 1928 would have been repeat
ers. In 1929 just over eleven out of
each 100 girls were not promoted,
which is over six fewer than in 1928.
Concerns Problem Children
"There will always be some failures
among pupils who are out of school
for long periods during the year for
illness of employment and among
mentally handicapped children who
cannot do the work planned for the
regular classes. Few of the counties
have thus far found it possible to Or
ganize special classes for these prob
lem children, largely because they are
scattered over the county.
"The percentage of failures among
the counties varies for boys from 8.S
in Frederick to 25.3 in Calvert, while
for girls the range is from z per cent
in Frederick and Cecil to 1873 in Bal
timore county. From 1928 to 1929
decreases in the number of failures
are especially marked in Frederick,
Somerset, Howard, Montgomery and
Garrett counties"