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school enrollment shows an increase of 67 per cent for this period; the private elementary schools show a loss of 11 per cent. Kindergarten enrollments have increased 1,882 per cent, those of public high schools 1,570 per cent, private high schools 168 per cent, preparatory departments of colleges 20 per cent, secondary students in normal schools 331 per cent, and all secondary-school pupils 946 per cent. There is an increase of 606 per cent in normal-school enrollments, 445 per cent in college and university enrollments, and 139 per cent in commercial-school enrollments. These increases are shown graphically for colleges and for secondary schools.

PER CENT OF INCREASE 1,000

INCREASE OF POPULATION, AND ENROLLMENTS IN COLLEGES, AND IN SECONDARY
SCHOOLS, 1890-1924, TAKING 1890 DATA AS BASES.

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Table 7.-In this table enrollments in elementary schools, high schools, teacher-training institutions, and colleges are classified according to public and private control, and are given by States.

VALUE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY

The States report a total valuation of public elementary and secondary school property of $3,744,780,714. Private high schools and academies report $396,616,100. Exclusive of endowments, teachers colleges and normal schools report property valued at $136,623,958, and colleges and universities at $1,056,929,060. If the value of school property used by the private elementary schools be estimated at $300,000,000, and $12,862,722 be included as endowment owned by teacher-training institutions, and $814,718,813 as productive funds of colleges and universities, the total value of property used by all types of schools mentioned above is $6,462,531,367.

The average value of public-school property per pupil enrolled has increased from $129 in 1922 to $154 in 1924. This increase is due not so much to increased values of real estate as it is to newer and better buildings, better equipment, and more extensive grounds. It is safe to say that our public-school children were never better housed than at present, although there is still room for improvement. A large number of cities report considerable congestion. The percentage of public-school expenditures going for sites, buildings, and contents for 1920 is 14.8 per cent; for 1922 it is 19.4 per cent; and for 1924 it is 21.3 per cent. This increase over previous years reflects the efforts of school districts toward resuming building programs that were curtailed during the war period or held in abeyance when building costs began to increase so rapidly above the pre-war figures.

In the matter of permanent school funds for public-school education, Texas leads with a total of over $80,000,000. Minnesota has fortyfour million, Virginia and Oklahoma have nearly twenty-four and one half million each, and South Dakota has twenty-four million in a permanent school fund. North Dakota, Washington, Montana, Indiana, New Jersey, Missouri, Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska each has a permanent school fund of over $10,000,000.

Nearly a half billion dollars of public-school resources are in school lands. Minnesota leads with $85,000,000, South Dakota has seventyfive million, Montana forty-six million, Colorado forty-one million, and eight other States have unsold lands valued at over $10,000,000 each.

TABLE 1.-School and college enrollments in 1923-24

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TABLE 2.-School enrollment and estimated costs in 1923-24

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4 The items beginning "Teachers colleges, extension courses," are not included in Table 1. TABLE 3.-Gifts and bequests to education, 1914-1924

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TABLE 4.-Gifts and bequests to education from 1871 to 1924

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1873_

11, 225, 977

21, 192, 450

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1874

24, 755, 663

6, 053, 804

1893.

8, 207, 690

1911.

1875

27, 634, 029

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10,855, 365

1912

1876_

30, 061, 310

4,691, 845

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1913.

1877.

29,651, 879

3,015, 256

1896.

11, 677, 048

1914_

1878

31, 357, 398

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10, 049, 141

1915_

1879.

26, 023, 246

5, 249, 810

1898.

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1880

37,095, 280

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1918.

1881.

29,856, 568

7,440, 224

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1883

67, 417, 156

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1884

78, 330, 790

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1885

9, 314, 081

1903

20, 348, 739
17, 915, 075

1924.

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17, 261, 375

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Total, excluding

1882, 1917, 1919,

83, 578, 479

1921, and 1923. 906, 719, 601

28, 585, 780

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• Figures for 1922.

Does not include 1,832 men and 817 women duplicates, in universities, colleges, and professional schools.

1,050

4,950

1,350

7, 150

1,500

8,000

10, 022 717

10, 852 2, 140

10, 852

2, 140

149, 428 267, 653

163, 999

339,599

158, 574

471, 633151, 215 663, 958

194, 642

712,000

906, 642

TABLE 6.-Kindergarten, elementary, commercial, secondary, normal school, and college enrollments, 1890-1924

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