Table 5. Relation of Population to Expenditures per Pupil, 154 Districts. 



1,600. Differences in average expenditures per pupil for the higher pop- 

 ulation groups are relatively insignificant. However, the amount of vari- 

 ance cannot be explained on the basis of total population alone. 



Population and Schools Maintained 



The proportion of districts maintaining a high school increases as 

 population increases ( Table 6 ) . There is some significance, however, 

 that six of the twenty-three districts having a population of 1..500 to 

 2,500 do not maintain a high school but send their pupils elsewhere on a 

 tuition basis. 



Of the eighty-eight rural districts having a population under 1,000, 

 six maintain no schools and send all pupils to neighboring districts on a 

 tuition basis. Seventy-six districts maintain only elementary schools and 

 six maintain both elementary and secondary schools (Table 7). The 

 average number of resident j)upils ( ADM ) and the proportion of pupils 

 in higli school increases with the multiplicity of schools maintained. 

 There is no appreciable difference in expenditures per elementary pupil 

 regardless of the schools maintained. How^ever, the expenditures per 

 high school pupil were much greater for the six districts maintaining a 



Table 6. Relation of Population to Number of Districts Maintaining 



a High School. 



Population 



Under 500 



500 to 999 

 1,000 to 1,499 

 1,500 to 1,999 

 2,000 to 2,500 



All districts 



154 



34 



22.1 



14 



