GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 



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fourth grade than in the third, or in the third than in the second, 

 probably mostly on account of families moving in with children 

 who ha\'e already been to school a few yearsf 



SCHOOL POPULATION CURVES 

 1915-1916 



CENTRAL FLORIDA 

 WHOLE STATE 



PEC;CE.NTA GES 



Fig. 43. Graph showing percentage distribution by grades of white and 

 negro pupils enrolled in public schools of central Florida and the whole State, 

 above the chart or kindergarten grade, 1915-16. 



In this diagram the same superiority of whites over negroes 

 and of central Florida over the rest of the State already brought 

 out in several other ways is apparent. A similar curve for the 

 whole United States would be so close to that for whites in the 

 whole State of Florida that it could hardly be separated on the 

 small scale used here. 



Private Schools. There are quite a number of private schools, 

 but only those of collegiate grade* can be mentioned here. Very 

 little statistical information is given about some of them in places 

 where one would ordinarily look for it (such as recent issues of 

 the New York World Almanac), but in order of size or reputa- 

 tion, or both, they seem to be as follows : John B. Stetson Uni- 

 versity (Baptist), at DeLand, with about 37 instructors and 500 

 students; Southern College (Methodist), at Sutherland in Pinel- 

 las County, with about 24 instructors and 210 students; Rollins 

 College (with Congregational and southern Presbyterian affilia- 



tlf the entire population could be graded in this way by the census the 

 results would be extremely interesting, but to the best of the writer's knowl- 

 edge that has never been done except in Iowa. 



