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more uniform ; $46,608.96 was spent on schpolhouses 

 in 1873-'74, against $4,352.45 the preceding year; 

 and out of a school population of 40,898 there were 

 20,680 enrolled in schools, a larger proportion than 

 in several much older States In her colleges were 

 796 preparatory students, 235 collegiate, and 14 

 medical. 



California, with a population spread over a vast 

 territory, but with several well-grown cities, reports 

 117,870 enrolled in schools out of 159,427 of school 

 age. The increase of enrollment over 1873 was 

 20,189, about keeping pace with the growth of pop- 

 ulation. There was a decrease of $73,734.94 in the 

 receipts for public schools, and of $34,982.09 in ex- 

 penditures. The State Normal School reported 234 

 pupils ; secondary schools, 3,077 ; the university and 

 colleges, 682 preparatory and 752 collegiate, besides 

 131 in the agricultural department of the university, 

 and 114 professional students. 



THE TERRITORIES. 



For the second time every Territory has been 

 heard from, and the report is, on the whole, en- 

 couraging. In all, except Alaska, some school system 

 is in operation, with a Territorial Superintendent of 

 Instruction, and generally county superintendents 

 also, while in the newly-settled ones the citizens 

 seem to be manfully contending with the great diffi- 

 culty of educating children in regions where wide, 

 waste areas form the rule and fixed settlements the 

 few exceptions. 



The District of Columbia, compact and populous, 

 led the list last year in enrollment of children in 

 schools, and Colorado in the amount raised for edu- 

 cational purposes. This year, Utah, vast in territory 

 but scanty in population, reports 10 more than the 

 District on her list of pupils in the public schools 

 and 308 more in average daily attendance, while 

 Colorado, rich as she is in mines, falls not only be- 

 low her former self, but also below the District in 

 school revenue. 



The enrollment in the Territorial schools is, as re- 

 portedthough the returns are said to be in some 

 instances imperfect for Arizona, 343 out of 2,584 

 children of school age ; for Colorado, 9,995 out of 

 19,309; for Dakota, 4,006 out of 6,312; for the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, 17,839 out of 31,671 ; for Idaho, 

 2,030 out of 4,010 ; for Montana, 1,935 out of 3,758 : 

 for New Mexico, 5,420 (in all schools, 6,578) out of 

 23,000 ; for Utah, 17,849 out of 33,297 ; for Washing- 

 ton, 7,592 out of 11,937 ; for Wvoming, 1,000 out of 

 1,100. The returns from the Indian Territory are 

 too meagre to admit of a comparison of them with 

 others, each Indian tribe there acting independently. 



SCHOOL STATISTICS OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- 

 SEVEN CITIES. 



A summary is presented of the statistics of the 



?ublic schools in 127 cities with a population of 

 e ,637,905. The summaries in the twenty different 

 items reported for each city contain some most sug- 

 gestive lessons. Some cities cannot tell the number 

 of their school population ; some have not counted 

 their sittings, and do not know whether they are 

 adequate to their necessities. The number enrolled 

 in private schools can only be approximated. The 

 statistics show that these cities contain 1,344,028 

 children of school age, and 2,136 school buildings, 

 having 621,498 sittings, or not quite half enough for 

 the children entitled to attend school. This appar- 

 ent deficiency is in part due to the fact that twenty- 

 five cities are unable to tell their sittings. The 

 amount expended in these cities for public schools 

 for the year was $19,122,323, while the total receipts 

 for the year were $19,150,514. 



NORMAL SCHOOLS. 



Statistics are given of 124 normal schools, having 

 966 instructors and 24,405 students. Of these 

 schools, 73 are supported by State appropriations. 



The largest appropriation for any one normal school 

 for the year was for the Normal University of the 

 State of Illinois. $28,987. Next to this is the appro- 

 priation for the State Normal School of New Jersey, 

 $20,000. Each of the 6 State Normal Schools of New 

 York received $18,000, and the Michigan State Nor- 

 mal School $17,500. The other appropriations range 

 from $1,000 to $15,000. Pennsylvania claims the 

 largest number of normal schools, reporting 11 ; 

 Ohio, 10 ; New York, 9 ; and Illinois and Missouri, 

 8 each. 



COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGES. 



Statistics have been received of 125 institutions 

 of this character, having 577 instructors and 25,892 

 students, an increase over the number reported last 

 year of 14 institutions, 63 instructors, and 3,495 

 students. In the number of schools New York takes 

 the lead, reporting 17; Illinois, 16; Ohio, 13; and 

 the remainder are distributed among 24 States and 

 2 Territories. 



KINDERGARTEN. 



Information is given in a table of 55 of these 

 schools, having 125 teachers and 1,635 pupils. Of 

 the whole number of these gardens reported, Massa- 

 chusetts claims 14 (6 of which are in Boston) and 

 New York 10. 



SECONDARY INSTRUCTION. 



The report presents a summary of the statistics 

 of 1,031 of this class of schools, having 5,466 in- 

 structors and 98,179 students. Of the whole num- 

 ber of schools, 195, with 13,592 pupils, are for boys ; 

 275, with 20,458 pupils, are for girls; and 561, with 

 64,129 pupils, for both sexes. It is noticed that al- 

 though 1,031 institutions, with 408 more teachers, 

 are reported in 1874, as against 944 in 1873, there 

 were 20,391 less students. This diminution of the 

 number of students is probably attributable to the 

 financial embarrassments of the year, which have, 

 in many States, largely affected the attendance on 

 private schools of the academic class. 



The Commissioner, alluding to the efforts of the 

 Bureau to collect full statistics of secondary instruc- 

 tion, says : " At present there is a painful deficiency 

 of information respecting secondary instruction in 

 State and city systems. 



PREPARATORY SCHOOLS. 



The number of these schools reporting to the Bu- 

 reau for 1874 is 91, with 697 instructors and 11,414 

 students. This is an increase over 1873 of 5 institu- 

 tions and 7 instructors, but a decrease of 1,073 stu- 

 dents. The number of students preparing for the 

 classical course in college is 3,655 ; for the scientific 

 course, 951. 



SUPERIOR INSTRUCTION OF WOMEN. 



The report embraces statistics of 209 of these 

 schools, 4 more than in 1873. The number of in- 

 structors reported is 2,285, 165 more than in 1873 ; 

 and the number of students, 23,445, a decrease of 

 1,168. 



Six thousand one hundred and ninety of the stu- 

 dents were in the preparatory departments, 10,750 

 in the regular collegiate course,. 1,093 in special or 

 partial courses, and 138 in the post-graduate course. 



UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 



Statistics of 343 colleges and universities are given. 

 The number of instructors reported is 3,783; the 

 number of students, 56,692. The number of insti- 

 tutions reported is greater by 20 than in 1873, the 

 number of instructors by 677, an.d the attendance by 

 4,639. The number of students in preparatory class- 

 es was 28,529 ; number of, unclassified students, 

 1,648 ; number of students in regular college classes, 

 26,515, of whom 15,598 were in the classical course, 

 4,664 in the scientific course, and 283 in post-gradu- 

 ate studies. The number of females in preparatory 

 classes was 6,585 ; in collegiate classes, 2,787. 



