FAKM OWNERSHIP AND TENANCY IN TEXAS. 
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record books of five representative black-land schools, supplemented 
by data taken direct from teachers and pupils. 41 
It will be noted from Table 33 that the highest enrollment record 
for each month was made by the daughters of owners, and the lowest 
enrollment record for each month, except for April, was made by 
renters' sons. But monthly enrollment of the sons of owners was 
higher than it was for the daughters of renters. 
It will be noted that the highest enrollment record for both the 
girls and boys of tenants was made in January. The first day of 
January is the beginning of the renting year so far as contracts are 
concerned, but few tenants get all their crops gathered until some 
time in January, and the majority of "moves" are made some time 
near the middle of the month. This means that tenants' children 
who are enrolled in school are in many cases enrolled in two schools 
at different times in January. Thus some of the children of out- 
going' renters as well as of incoming renters are enrolled in the same 
school for January, which accounts for the comparatively large 
enrollment of tenants' children during this month. 
Table 33. — Monthly enrollment, attendance, and change in make-up of school 
body as affected by tenure. 
I. PER CENT OF TOTAL YEAR'S ENROLLMENT REPORTED EACH MONTH. 
Tenure of father and 
sex of child. 
Oct. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Jan. 
Feb. 
Mar. 
Apr. 
May. 
Daughters of owners. . 
Daughters of tenants. 
Sons of owners 
Sons of tenants 
84.6 
64.6 
85.2 
59.6 
86.6 
70.1 
87.6 
64.6 
92.0 i 
79.6 ; 
93.3 
78.6 
92.5 
85.3 
91.0 
82.1 
87.6 
84.1 
84.3 
74.1 
94.5 
77.7 
90.0 
72.9 
95.0 
81.5 
83.8 
82.7 
74.7 
79.3 
75.7 
75.0 
II. PER CENT OF DAYS PRESENT TO AGGREGATE DAYS PUPILS WERE ENROLLED. 
Daughters of owners. 
Daughters of tenants . 
Sons of owners 
Sons of tenants 
81.4 
86.9 
86.0 
85.9 
79.3 
85.7 
76.5 
84.2 
79.1 
85.5 
77.4 
83.7 
78.0 
83.7 
79.4 
88.2 
83.3 
87.9 
80.0' 
90.6 
83.4 
92.2 
S3. 9 
92.1 
85.4 
90.7 
87.7 
93.0 
88.1 
93.6 
86.7 
II. PER CENT OF ALL PUPILS WHO EITHER ENTERED OR WERE DROPPED FROM 
THE ROLLS EACH MONTH. 
Daughters of owners. 
Daughters of tenants . 
Sons of owners 
Sons of tenants 
78.6 
9.5 
7.5 
9.5 
6.0 
2.0 
7.5 
60.5 
14.7 
14.0 
14.6 
14.4 
9.5 
13.6 
88.6 
12.0 
10.5 
8.5 
3.8 
7.7 
13.3 
56.6 
14.3 
20.0 
20.8 
17.0 
9.9 
12.8 
1.0 
6.7 
3.6 
41 These schools were as follows : Florence Hill, a strictly consolidated rural school of 
G rooms, situated 6 miles in the country south of Grand Prairie, Dallas County ; the 
Forreston School, a village school in Forreston, Ellis County ; the Abbott School, a village 
school in Abbott, Hill County ; Bell-Falls School, a 4-room rural school on the line of 
Bell and Falls Counties, 6 miles southeast of Troy, in Bell County ; and the Macedonia 
School, a 2-teacher rural school, 5 miles southwest of Granger, in Williamson County, in a 
mixed American and Bohemian community. 
