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Show UTAH SCHOOL ATTENDANCE Washington D. C. According to the census of 1920 there are 74,957 children 7 to 13 years of age in the state of Utah and of Chis number 71.611 or 95.5 per cent were reported report-ed as attending school. In 1910 the percentage attending sohool was 91.6, thus showing a gratifying increase in-crease as regards school attendance between 1910 and 1920. Of the children chil-dren 14 and 15 years of age in. 1920 93.7 per cent were attending school and of those 16 and 17 years of age 71.4 per cent. The percentage of children attending attend-ing schools was approximately the same in the cities and country districts, dis-tricts, the percentage for children in the urban population 7 to 13 years of age being 95.8 w:hile in the rural population it was 95.3. "Urban" according ac-cording to the census definition includes in-cludes all cities and other incorporated incorpor-ated places of 2,500 population or more. |