Third session of the International Congress for Criminal Anthropology, held in Brussels... The Demographical Congress, held in Budapest, 1894................... NECROLOGY 1761 PART III.-STATISTICAL TABLES. Statistics of population, private schools, and public school enrollment, attendance, supervising 1780 Statistics of manual training in city public schools, Part I.. Statistics of manual training in city public schools, Part II. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C., June 20, 1895. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith my sixth annual report, the same being for the year ending June 30, 1894. WHOLE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENROLLED IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. There were enrolled in the schools and colleges of the United States, both public and private, during the school year 1893–94, 15,530,268 pupils and students, being an increase of 446,638 over the preceding year. A detailed classification of these pupils and students is given on pages 3 to 6. In addition, there were some 400,000 persons enrolled in various special schools and institutions, such as business colleges, trade schools, conservatories of music, schools of art and elocution, schools for the delinquent and defective classes, Indian schools, etc., making a grand total of nearly 16,000,000 persons who attended a school of some kind for a longer or shorter period during the year. THE COMMON SCHOOLS. The term "common schools" is understood by this office to include public elementary and secondary (or high) day schools. The statistics of the different State common-school systems, compiled from data. furnished by State superintendents, are given in detail in Chapter I. The following table contains a condensed summary of the commonschool statistics, with the corresponding figures for 1892-93 in a parallel column: |