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SUMMARIES.

The following summaries show the operations of all the public schools of the State for the years ending June 30, 1909 and June 30, 1910.

An effort has been made to divorce the statistics of the country schools from the statistics of the city schools with a view to noting the growth respectively in each system,

In order that a report may be of value, the matter on which the statistics is gathered must be uniform so that the progress inade along any particular line can be measured by a comparison of what had formerly been done with what is being done at the present. These tables have been compiled with care and the accuracy of the whole is determined solely by the accuracy of the individual reports.

There has been a very slight increase in the scholastic population within the last four years, and while the increase in enrollment and daily attendance has not been as rapid as friends of education would desire, yet from year to year there has been a substantial growth. Possibly the most gratifying thing in the report is shown in the larger enrollment in the upper grades. This shows an increase in the efficiency of the schools; and from year to year as the school system is developed the number in attendance in the more advanced grades will steadily grow. This has been influenced, in my opinion, very largely by the establishment of County High Schools, which have exerted a very wholesome effect on the elementary school below.

Possibly the largest gain during the past two years has been in the material improvement. As school interest grows there is a stronger demand created for better school houses and better equipment; and during the past two years, in round numbers, there has been spent more than one million dollars for school buildings. This, however, has had the effect of shortening the scholastic terms, and the school term has not increased so rapidly as the amount of funds would indicate that it should, but when we bear in mind that out of the school fund must be paid

not only teachers' salaries but the erection and equipment of school houses as well, it can be readily seen that a considerable portion of the fund is necessarily spent for material equipment.

There has been, however, a gradual increase in the scholastic term, and at the same time an increase in teachers' salaries. The term is yet too short and the teachers' salaries too small to command the best talent. The children of the State need an eight months' term taught by competent teachers, whose services could not be secured at a salary of $30 per month, and some public school teachers receive even less.

The increase in the revenues of the State for the scholastic year ending June 30, 1910, over the preceding year is very largely due to the large bond issues of the cities and some of the Counties of the State for school purposes.

TABLE I-SHOLASTIC POPULATION BETWEEN THE AGES
OF SIX AND TWENTY-ONE YEARS.

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TABLE VI-ENROLLMENT IN EACH BRANCH OF STUDY.

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