Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1912 — FEW FINISH IN HIGH SCHOOLS OF STATE. [ARTICLE]

FEW FINISH IN HIGH SCHOOLS OF STATE.

Indiana Figures For Last Year Show 20,599 Freshmen and Only 9,169 In The Senior Class. r Figures showing, among other things, that approximately 50 per cent of the pupils entering Indiana high schools quit before they are graduated were made public Monday at the state office of Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction. The figures were com-ff-om the total attendance for the school year 1911-1912 and the tableshows an enrollment of 520,723 for the high schools and grade schools of the state. * ■* The total enrollment in the high schools for the year was 55,247. Of this number, 20,599 were enrolled in the first-year classes and only 9,169 in the fourth-year classes. In the second-year classes there was an enrollment of 14,681 and in the thirdyear classes there was a total enrollment of only 10,898. In the grade school compilation there is shown a great falling off in the number of children enrolled in the higher grades as compared with the attendance in the lower grades. In the first grade of the schools throughout the state there were 90,634 enrolled. This includes all kindergarten pupils. In the second grade there was a total enrollment of 61,843 and in the third grade ther was a total enrollment of 63,503. The only instance in the entire compilation where there is an increase as between a lower and a higher grade is between the second and third grades. In the fourth grade there was a total attendance of 62,429; in the fifth grade, an enrollment of 55,976; in the sixth grade, 50,414; in the seventh, 42,191, and in the eight grade, 38,386. Another interesting feature of the compilation is the difference shown between the number of graduates from the grade and the high schools. Last year there were 29,217 more grade school graduates than high school seniors. In all of the schools of Indiana, including the graded and the high schools, there is shown to have been more white boys than white girls. There were 257,283 white boys, while there were 253,062 white girls. There was a total enrollment of 4,998 colored boys, and 5,380 colored girls in attendance.