Summary of school-statistics of cities—population, school-enrollment, and average attendance.

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533 10,042, 892 2, 448, 719 1, 564, 663 51, 557 51, 431 11, 558 24,642 871, 201

*Only white population of Washington and Georgetown included; colored school-population for the two cities, 9,328; enrollment, 5, 188; average attendance, 3,385.

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Summary of school-statistics of cities-private schools, &c.—Continued.

SCHOOL-STATISTICS OF FIFTY PRINCIPAL CITIES.

The following table, drawn from Table II of the appendix, exhibits the leading statistics of the public schools in 50 principal cities in the country, embracing a population of over 6,000,000 and a school-population of 1,724,114. It is not possible to go into any comparative analysis of the statistics, on account of diversity of systems and the want of complete uniformity in the reports where the systems are identical. The greatest hinderance, however, to any comparative estimates arises from the diversity of ages embraced in the enumeration of the school-population, 15 of the cities in question enumerating children between 6 and 21 years of age; 10 between 5 and 21; 9 between 5 and 15; 4 between 5 and 18; 2 between 4 and 16; 2 between 6 and 16; and the remaining 8 cities enumerating children between the following ages respectively, viz: 4 and 20, 4 and 21, 5 and 20, 6 and 15, 6 and 16, 6 and 18, 6 and 20, and 7 and 21. Summary of the population, school-age, and enrollment of fifty principal cities.

Summary of the population, school-age, and enrollment of fifty principal cities-Continued.

Summary of the enrollment and average attendance of primary, intermediate, and grammarschools of fifty principal cities.

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Summary of the enrollment and average attendance, &c.-Continued.