The Public High School 



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the villages and townships. They also show the extent of the 

 relationship between the schools and this constituency. 



Data in the World's Almanac, for 1910, compiled by the 

 statistician of the Bureau of Education, show for the total 

 population of United States, an enrollment in public secondary 

 schools of 91 for every 10,000 of population. 



These ratios for high schools outside of cities having a popula- 

 tion of 8,000 and over do not differ greatly from those obtained 

 by Dr. Snyder in his study on rural schools.^ His ratios and 



Table 10 

 Ratios of Enrollment per 10,000 op Population 



these for the three states, Missouri, Nebraska, and Ohio, are 

 shown below, his appearing in the first column. 



Missouri, 332 schools, 2.52 per cent; 35 schools, 3.86.^ 



Nebraska, 365 schools, 5.29 per cent; 47 schools, 4.51. 



Ohio, 782 schools, 5.06 per cent; 41 schools, 3.78. 



A high percentage of pupils enrolled in agricultural classes 



may mean (i) that the work is required instead of elective, 



* E. R. Snyder, The Legal Status of Rural High Schools in the United 

 States, p. 136. 



' Most of the school districts included in my returns have less than 

 2,000 population, namely, 25 in Missouri, 18 in Nebraska, and 37 in 

 Ohio. Dr. Snyder's ratios for cities of 8,000 and over run much higher, 

 being 4.2 2 percent, 7.16 per cent and 4. 75 per cent respectively for the three 

 states in the order already named. I have returns from no cities of this 

 size in these states, but it will be observed that the cities I do cite above 

 this population, mostly in the South, give a much lower percentage, 

 as do also the county units. But in some of the counties there are other 

 high schools drawing from the same population. 



