Total number of pupils and students of all grades in both public and private schools, 1893-94. NOTE. The classification of States made use of in the following table is the same as that adopted by the United States census, and is as follows: North Atlantic Division: a Including pupils in preparatory or academic departments of higher institutions, public and private, and excluding elementary pupils, who are classed in columns 2 and 3. completely organized high schools whom there are no means of enumerating. b This is made up chiefly from the returns of individual high schools to the Bureau, and is considerably too small, as there are a great many secondary pupils outside the cIncluding colleges for women, agricultural and mechanical (land-grant) colleges, and scientific schools. Students in law, theological, and medical departments are excluded, being tabulated in columns 9-11. Students in academic and preparatory departments are also excluded, being tabulated in columns 4 and 5. d Mainly State universities and agricultural and mechanical colleges. e Including veterinary and nurses' training schools. Mainly in schools or departments of medicine and law attached to State universities. g Nonprofessional pupils in normal schools are included in columns 4 and 5. h Private normal schools are, with few exceptions, scarcely superior to the ordinary secondary schools. Summary of higher instruction. Total number of pupils and students of all grades in both public and private schools, 1893-94-Continued. Division. Summary-public and private. Grand total. Summary of pupils by grade. CHAPTER II. CONSOLIDATED STATISTICS OF STATE AND CITY COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEMS. NOTE.-The common schools as here understood include public day schools of elementary and secondary grades; i. e., public primary, grammar, and high schools. Classification by race is given elsewhere in this report. I.-STATE SCHOOL SYSTEMS. The following tables contain the common school statistics of the various States and Territories for 1893-94, with the exception of some half dozen States, for which the figures of 1892-93 are given. The totals for the United States are therefore subject to correction. Tables 1 and 2 contain various details regarding different classes of the population and their relations to each other, which it is important to have in mind in considering the educational status of the several States. The total population, the number of persons from 5 to 18 years of age, and the adult male population have been carefully estimated for the epoch 1894, using wherever possible as a basis the increase of the State school population as determined by the annual school censuses. TABLE 1.—The total population, the school population, and the adult male population. |