Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — TOTAL OF PUPILS 16,738,362. [ARTICLE]

TOTAL OF PUPILS 16,738,362.

Statistics Given by United States Commissioner of Education. The annual report of the United (States commissioner of education for the fiscal year ended June 30 last gives the figures tor the fiscal year 1898-99 as the latest statistics obtainable. It shows that the grand total of pupils in all schools, elementary, secondary and higher, public and private, for the year ended July 1, 1899, was 16,738,362, of which the number enrolled in the common schools, elementary and secondary was 15,138,715. Twenty and one-half per cent of the enr tire population was enrolled in the public elementary schools and high schools. There were 35,458 pupils in attendance in all departments of the colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts under the act of Congress-approved Aug. 30, 1890, in aid of such institutions. The total income of these institutions, distributed among tin? various States, amountedI*to 1 *to $6,193,016, of which $1,769,716 was derived from acts of Congress, $2,570,427 was appropriated by the several States and territories and the remainder was derived from-fees, invested funds and other miscellaneous sources. Under the supervision of the bureau twenty-five public schools are maintained in Alaska, with a total enrollment of 1.72.'! pupils. Tile report reviews the school work in the Philippines, Cuba, Dortb Rico and Hawaii. The total attendance in the Manila schools was 5,706 Sept. 30, 1899. against a school population of some 25,000. In Cuba in March, 1900, there were 131 boards of education, 3,099 schools in operation, with 3,560 teachers and 130.000 children enrolled. In 18!):) there had becnonly 200" schools; nF tendance, 4,000. The expenditures up to Ihe end of March, 1900, had been $3,560,001), the school fund being taken from the customs receipts, anil the estimate for 1960 was $4,000,000. In Porto Rico, for the first term of 1899-1900, the school enrollment was 15.440 boys, 8,952 girls: total, 24,392; average daily attendance, 20.103; population of the island, 957,779. In Hawaii the total number of public and private schools is 169, with a total enrollment of 15,490, including a large liroporti on of tore igm-ws, eue 1 i-natlrmalrt y having its own teacher.