the average salary paid the white teachers was ^440.48; the colored 

 teachers received on the average, $174. The salary paid is in part de- 

 pendent upon the average attendance maintained by the particular 

 school over which the teacher presides, there being a uniform scale 

 throughout the county. 



The Pupils 



The total population of the county between the ages of 5 and 20 

 years is approximately 10,800, of which number 7,710 are whice and 

 3,090 are colored. The total enrollment of the schools, white and 

 colored, for the year 1911 to 1912, was 5,709 or 52.8% of the population 

 of school age. For the entire continental United States, according to 

 the Census of 1910, the proportion of the population of school age 

 enrolled in the schools was 62.8%. Montgomery County, then, is 

 nearly 10% below the average for the country (even allowing for the 

 number attending private schools and colleges.) Of the total enrollment, 

 3,726 were in regular attendance. This last means that 65.5% of the 

 children of the county did not attend the public schools regularly. 



White Schools. The highest total enrollment of the white schools 

 last year was 3,927 or 50.9% of the white population of school age. 

 The total average attendance was 2,639 or 67.3% of the enrollment. 

 This made an average attendance of 34.7 pupils per school. 



The proportion of pupils enrolled in each grade begins to decrease 

 after the fourth grade and drops ofif sharply after the sixth. (Table 

 No. 18, Appendix, page VI). 



The district showing the best average attendance was Bethesda, 



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