Summary of the enrollment and average attendance of high, evening, and private schools of fifty principal cities.

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

Number enrolled.

Summary of number of students preparing for classical and scientific courses in college, the total and current expenditure, and per-capita cost of public education in fifty principal

cities.

Average attend

ance.

Evening-schools, (num-
ber enrolled.)

Private schools, (number enrolled.)

Enrollment in public schools.-The total enrollment reported in the public schools of these cities, including evening- and normal schools, was 1,012,035, or 58 per cent. of the whole enumeration, 43 cities reporting an enrollment of 495,781 in the primary grade; 24 reporting an enrollment in intermediate schools of 51,093; 42 reporting an enrollment in grammar-schools of 213,248; 43 reporting an enrollment in high schools of 37,315; 35 reporting evening-schools with an enrollment of 65,758. The aggregate enrollment in public schools and in private schools corresponding in grade with the public schools was reported to be 1,114,723; 35 cities reported 319,840 pupils in drawing.

Parochial and private schools.—It will be observed that 25 of the cities, of which St. Louis is the chief, report 102,688 pupils in parochial and private schools, the number of such pupils in St. Louis being 17,346, or about 14 per cent. of the number of children of school-age. It is estimated that the number of pupils annually attending these schools some portion of the time, in the cities embraced in the table, would not fall far short of 450,000. If the enumeration of the school-population for all the cities were confined to the population between 6 and 16 years of age and the number of pupils in parochial and private schools were fully reported, the total enrollment in the public and private schools would probably cover about 90 per cent. of the youths between these ages.

High Schools-preparatory students.-Twenty-eight cities report 609 pupils in high schools preparing for colleges of liberal arts and 18 report 309 pupils in schools (presumably of the same grade) preparing for scientific schools or colleges. Several of these cities have normal schools, the statistics of which will be found in the table of the appendix. The pupils in these are also included in the total enrollment of the public schools.

School-expenditure. The total expenditure of the fifty cities (with the exception of Indianapolis) for public schools in 1873 was $17,335,519, the current expenditure being $13,996,284, or an average expenditure of $13.91 per capita of the enrollment in public schools.

TABLE III.-NORMAL SCHOOLS.

The table shows steady and hopeful progress in the growth of special schools for the training of teachers for our public schools. The following is a comparative summary of schools, instructors, and pupils, reported to the Bureau for the years 1870, 1871, 1872, and 1873:

The table shows an increase, over those reporting in 1872, of 15 schools, 114 teachers, and 4,842 pupils. Eleven of the 113 schools reporting were established or organized in 1873, notable among these being the Massachusetts State Normal Art-School, “intended as a training-school for qualifying teachers and masters of industrial drawing, its specific aim at present being to prepare teachers for the industrial drawing-schools of the State, who shall also be able to direct and superintend the instruction in this branch in the public schools."

Within the past five years, the number of schools established, wholly or in part devoted to training public-school-teachers, is 59. The following are the summaries by States of the schools reporting, the details of which will be found in Table III of the appendix.

Summary of normal schools, showing the number of instructors and students, the number in

table. They are not included in this summary.

The names of six normal schools, from which no statistics have been received, will be found in the