TABLE 2.—Summary, by States, of enrollment, attendance, supervising officers, and teachers in cities containing over 8,000 inhabitants. (a) a No statistics were received from 21 out of the 602 systems, and in the returns of a few others some of the items were not reported. In the preparation of this table such deficiencies were supplied from the best sources available. In general, estimates based upon ratios developed in the other cities of the same State were used unless it appeared that the conditions were essentially different in the city for which the data were lacking. For example, if 2 cities out of 20in a State did not report average attendance, and in the other 18 the attendance averaged 70 per cent of the enrollment, that ratio was applied to the enrollment of the two remaining cities; the number so obtained was added to the sum of the attendance in the 18 to find the total for the State. When the deficiencies in any State were considerable in relative number or importance no estimates were made for that State, but in all cases such deficiencies were insignificant when the geographical divisions were considered and satisfactory estimates were easily made. b With the exception of one city the statistics are for 1894–95. TABLE 3.—Summary, by States, of school property and expenditures in cities containing over 8,000 inhabitants. (a) See footnote on page 1490 for explanation of the method used in the preparation of this table. b With the exception of one city the statistics are for 1894-95. |