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is 9.2. About 1 per cent of the pupils enrolled were dropped 

 to enter a higher grade during the term. Altho the blank 

 did not specifically call for the information, the assumption 

 is that no double promotions were made at the end of the 

 year. This being the case, the average promotion rate is 

 9.2 per cent of failure or retardation and about 1 per cent 

 of double promotion or acceleration. 



TABLE XV-A 



Showing Retardation and Acceleration in the Rural Schools (2,000 

 Children) and Small Towns (1,000 Children) of Marshall County, 

 Indiana, in Comparison With Similar Data from 54 Per Cent of the 

 One-Teacher Rural Schools in Eleven Counties of Kansas En- 

 rolling 10,298 Children 



Grade 



Marshall 



I 



II 



III 



IV 



V 



VI 



VII 



VIII 



IX 



X 



XI 



XII 



Av. 





























County 





























Retardation. . 



5 



12 



17 



27 



16 



32 



23 



16 



13 



10 



11 



7 



17 



Acceleration. . 



11 



18 



19 



12 



18 



7 



16 



16 



24 



19 



34 



30 



15 



Eleven Kansas 





























Counties 





























Retardation 





























—Boys 



26 



32 



39 



46 



51 



55 



49 



54 



41 









42 



Retardation 









—Girls 



19 



26 



30 



34 



40 



37 



40 



42 



40 









33 



Total 









39 



Acceleration 



























Total 



























4 































For a promotion rate of 9.2 Ayres^^ has computed that 

 the per cent of retardation is 24.0 and that the average num- 

 ber of years required to complete the elementary school is 

 8.69, provided there is no elimination. 



Variations in Promotion Rate. The relatively high per 

 cent of failures (16.6) in IB indicates that there is a tendency 

 to hold pupils in this grade. This condition was found to 

 exist in those school systems having semiannual promotion. 

 (See Table X.) The per cent of failures varies only slightly 

 ' from grade to grade until the sixth grade. The decrease in 

 the number of failures in the ''A" divisions of the sixth, 

 seventh, and eighth grades is only partially balanced by the 

 increase in the per cent of pupils promoted on trial. Vvob- 



13 Ayres, L. P. "The Effect of Promotion Rates on School Efficiency," Bulletin E130, 

 Russell Sage Foundation. Also in American School Board Journal, May, 1913. 



