and other private secondary schools for the scholastic year 1896-97-Continued.

TABLE 43.—Statistics of private high schools, endowed academies, seminaries,

and other private secondary schools for the scholastic year 1896-97—Continued.

TABLE 44.-Public and private high schools for boys only, for girls only, and for both

United States.......

35 9, 659 26 10, 294 5, 048 163, 786 225, 694 351 20, 054 537 23, 134 1, 212 33, 164 31, 681

Schools.

Students.

Schools.

Students.

Schools.

Boys.

Girls.

131, 169 7

North Central Division.... 1 440
Western Division

1

North Atlantic Division... 12 6, 751 8 6, 481 1, 207 47, 802 65, 365 152 10, 256,192 8, 655
South Atlantic Division.. 91, 299 10 1,639)
7,321 10, 262 82 3,686 81 3, 760
South Central Division..
1, 554 510 11, 416 15,513 36 1,358 84 4,002
2,783 87, 967 122, 131 54 3, 721 127 5, 096|
212 9, 280, 12, 423 27 1,033 53 1, 621

321 10, 688, 10, 869

336

258 5, 757 5,187

368 8,910 7,989

620

215 6, 558 6, 205 50 1,251 1,431

CHAPTER XLI.

STATISTICS OF CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMS.

There are 578 cities in the United States claiming to have more than 8,000 population cach. In these cities there are 601 distinct systems of city public schools, a number of cities having two or more school organizations. In 1890-91 there were only 412 such systems, with an enrollment of 2,627,275 pupils. For 1896-97 the enrollment in the 601 city systems was 3,590,875, an increase of 963,600, or 36.67 per cent in six years. In the same time the enrollment in the public schools outside of the cities of 8,000 population increased from 10,422,857 in 1890-91 to 11,061,617 in 1896-97. This was an increase of 638,760, or a little more than 6 per cent. This wide difference in the rate of increase in enrollment in city and country schools is partly due to the fact that in 1890-91 more than 150 of the systems now classed as city systems were yet outside of cities of 8,000 population and over, and the enrollment in these 150 systems is now in effect subtracted from the enrollment in country schools and added to that in city schools. Whether this accounts for the whole difference in the rate of increase or not the fact remains that the enrollment in public schools in cities of 8,000 population and over in 1890-91 was only about 20 per cent of the total public school enrollment of the United States, while in 1896-97 the enrollment in cities of like size is 244 per cent of the public school enrollment for the whole country. The following table is a summary of statistics of school systems of cities containing over 8,000 inhabitants, showing increase or decrease from previous year:

In 1890 the cities of 8,000 population and over had 29.2 per cent of the population of the entire country. In 1897 the estimated population of the United States, based largely upon the school census of the previous year in most of the States, was 71,374,142. The aggregate population claimed by the cities of 8,000 inhabitants and over was 21,878,211, or 31.86 per cent of the total population. This percentage is manifestly too great, the actual population of most cities being consideraly below the "claimed" population. The total population of these cities, estimated on the basis of the latest school census of each city, was 22,531,091 for 1897, or 31.57 per cent of the estimated population of the United States for that year.

The statistics of city school systems are summarized in Tables 1 to 20 in this chapter, and certain comparisons are drawn between the public schools of the cities and the public schools outside of cities of 8,000 population and over.

Table 1 shows for each State the number of city systems of public schools, the enrollment in these public schools, the aggregate number of days attended, the aver