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Show ONE HIGH SCHOOL A DAY For Twenty-Eight Years That Has Been the Record This Coun- try Has Made. In a pamphlet on high schools In this country, issued by the federal bureau bu-reau of education, It Is stated that the total number of these schools in 1917-1S 1917-1S was 13,051. The mailing list of the bureau Includes the names .' of 1(5,300 high schools. The number of these schools has increased over 452 per cent since 1890. This means that one high school has been established estab-lished In this country each day in each calendar year since 1890 a high school a day for 28 years. In 1890 60.8 per cent of the high schools were under public control, but in 1918 the public-controlled high schools were 87 per cent of the whole. The average size of a city high school is 053 students and of a rural school 59 students. In 1890 only 312 persons In each 1,000 population were enrolled in public pub-lic high schools. In 1918 the corresponding corre-sponding number was 15.6, or almost five times as great a proportion. California Cali-fornia leads In high-school education, with 27 persons out of each 1,000 In the population. Kansas Is a close second, sec-ond, with South Carolina at the bottom bot-tom of the list, with 5.3 persons. |