DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS, Of the 2,106 private high schools, academies, seminaries, etc., classed as private secondary schools, 924 are under the management, control, or patronage of religious denominations, while 1,182 are reported as nonsectarian. From Tables 21 and 22 may be condensed the following statement, showing the number of schools, including their teachers and secondary students, controlled by each of the leading religious denominations: Certain comparisons have been made in the preceding pages between public high schools on the one hand, and private high schools, academies, and seminaries on the other. It has been noted that in the private institutions the number of secondary students is nearly equally divided between the sexes, while in the public high schools the number of female students is largely in excess of the number of males. In the private institutions nearly 30 per cent of the secondary students are preparing for college, while in the public high schools the per cent is less than 14. In the private institutions nearly 47 per cent of the students graduating had been preparing for college, while in the public high schools less than 30 per cent of the graduates had been preparing for college. Other comparisons between the public and the private secondary schools are made in Table 23. The average number of secondary students to a public high school is about 76, while the private secondary school has only about 51. The public secondary school has an average of three teachers, while the private school has four. In the public high school there is an average of 24 students to the teacher, while in the private school the average is 12. The average number of graduates to a public high school is 9, while the average to the private school is 5. The average number of elementary pupils to a public high school is 51, while in the private high school the average is 57, or about 6 more than the average number of secondary students in the same institutions. In Tables 24 to 29, inclusive, the statistics of public high schools and private high schools, academies, and other private institutions of secondary grade are combined. Table 24 shows that there were 7,080 public and private secondary schools reporting to this office, and that these schools had 24,452 teachers and 487,147 secondary students. The number of male students was 211,433, or 43.40 per cent of the total number, while the female secondary students numbered 275,714, or 56.60 per cent of the total. The remainder of Table 24 and the first four columns of Table 25 show the number and per cent of students preparing for college, the classical and the scientific students being separately summarized. There were 83,828 students preparing for college, or 17.21 per cent of the whole number of secondary students. There were 48,955 classical preparatory students, and 34,873 preparing for scientific college courses. There were 57,153 graduates from the public and private secondary schools in 1896, or 11.73 per cent of the whole number of secondary students. Of this number of graduates, 18,683, or 32.69 per cent of the number graduating, had prepared for college. Tables 26, 27, 28, and 29 show the number and per cent of students in each of the sixteen leading high-school studies in the public and private secondary schools of each State. The same items for the United States are condensed in two columns of the table given below. The following table also shows the number and per cent of male students compared with the number and per cent of female students in certain courses and studies in the 7,080 public and private secondary schools reporting to this office: Students in certain courses and studies in public and private high schools and This table shows that 22.26 per cent of the male students were preparing for college and only 13.33 per cent of the female students. In the graduating classes 43.47 per cent of the males and 25.79 per cent of the female students had prepared for college. The male students show larger percentages in Greek, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and physics, while the female students had larger percentages in the remaining eleven studies. Some idea of the progress of public and private secondary schools for the past seven years may be gained by an inspection of the condensed table of percentages given below. The table shows the per cent of the secondary students in certain courses and studies each year since 1890. The number of students studying Latin increased from 33.66 per cent in 1890 to 46.22 per cent in 1896. In the same time the number in algebra increased from 42.77 per cent to 53.46 per cent, and the number in geometry from 20.07 to 25.71 per cent. The number in history increased from 27.83 per cent in 1890 to 35.73 per cent in 1896. There was a decrease in the number preparing for college from 18.66 per cent in 1890 to 17.21 per cent in 1896, but the number of graduates increased from 10.05 per cent to 11.73 per cent. In 1891 the per cent of graduates prepared for college was 35.74, and in 1896 it had fallen to 32.69 per cent. The percentages in the following table would indicate that these changes have been in most instances regular from 1890 to 1896: Per cent of total number secondary students in public and private high schools and academies in certain courses and studies, etc. History (other than United States).. 27.83 29.77 31.35 33.46 35.78 34.65 35.73 a Per cent to total number of graduates. SECONDARY STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. On the first page of this chapter is a brief table showing the classification of the 559,003 secondary students in all the institutions reporting to this office. The distribution of these students by classes and by States is given in Tables 30 and 31. Table 30 shows the number in public high schools, in preparatory departments of public universities and colleges, and in public normal schools. The total number of secondary students in public institutions was 392,729, the number of males being 163,802 and the number of females 229,927. Table 31 shows the number of secondary students in private high schools and academies, in preparatory departments of private universities and colleges and colleges for women, in private normal schools, and in manual training schools. The total number of secondary students in these private institutions was 166,274, the number of males being 90,100 and the females 76,174. The third column of Table 30 gives the total number of secondary students in each State. The number of secondary students to each 1,000 of population in 1896 was 7.92. The North Atlantic Division had 8.06 secondary students to each 1,000 of population, the North Central had 10.03, the South Atlantic had 4.79, the South Central had 4.91, and the Western Division had 8.53 secondary students to each 1,000 of population. These figures and the number of secondary students to each 1,000 of population in each State are given in the third column of Table 32. For convenience of comparison, the number of students in higher education to each 1,000 of population in each State is given in the last column of Table 32. The total number is 139,611, as may be seen in the beginning of the chapter on "Higher Education," or 1.98 to each 1,000 of population. Table 33 contains in detail the statistics of the 4,974 public high schools summarized in Tables 1 to 10. Table 34 gives similar statistics of the 2,106 private high schools, academies, and other institutions for private secondary instruction. TABLE 1.-Public high schools-Number of schools, secondary instructors, secondary students, and elementary pupils in 1895–96. Number of dents (in Number of second Elementary pupils, teachers. ary students. cluded in preceding column). including all below secondary grades. Total. Male. Female. Total. Male. United States 4, 9747, 226 8, 474 15, 700 157, 942 222, 551 380, 493 1, 730 2, 978 4, 708 123, 401 130, 579 253, 980 North Atlantic Div 1, 1851, 825 2,935 4,760 48,263 66, 468 114,731) 407 588 995 39, 257 42,590 81,847 824 277 681 958 8,760 9,313 18,073 165 324 489 14,143 13,829 27,972 850 1,331 2,181 59,400 62,882 122, 282 31 54 85 1,841 1,965 3,806 TABLE 2.-Public high schools-Number of secondary students in college preparatory courses; number of graduates and college preparatory students in graduating class in 1895–96. United States 14, 154, 15, 068 29, 222 12, 072 11, 303 23, 375 16, 498 29, 366 45, 864 6,182 7,246 13, 426 8,274 North Atlantic Div 6,062 5, 124 11, 186 3, 879 2,305 6, 184 5,532 9,681 15,213 1,845 1,586 3,431 5,151 South Atlantic Div South Central Div. North Central Div. Western Division. North Atlantic Div: N. Hampshire. 1,072 1,178 2,250 270 194 464 600 1,228 1.828 328 346 674 700 4, 624 6,068 10, 692 5,792 6,556 12,348 Massachusetts. 2,244 1,958 4,202 1,015 Rhode Island.. New York.. Connecticut New Jersey South Atlantic Div: Delaware 363 238 601 28 353 248 601 341 1,495 1,274 2,769 1, 153 943 2,096 1,402 2,221 3,623 506 944 366 52 314 4 185 5 3 18 214 138 352 290 231 521 403 750 1,153 550 462 1,012 513 759 1,145, 2,248 3,393 Dist. Columbia. 75 948 1,783 1,005 1,634 2,639 836 1,593 1,171 2,644 3,815 72 151 47 134 25 233 92 11 0 542 1,024 320 622 891 560 1,000 172 594 608 54 90 87 36 60 88 611 1,037 398 399 524 855 303 44 72 30 40 53 |