TABLE 2.-Relation of the school population to the total population and to the adult male population; proportion of the white school population of foreign birth or extraction; percentage of foreign born of total population.

ENROLLMENT.

The common school enrollment for 1893-94, as given in Tables 3 and 4 following, is less than that found by adding together columns 2 and 4 of the table of Chapter I (p. 4), in that it does not embrace secondary pupils in public universities and colleges.

The whole number of pupils enrolled in the common schools is found to be 13,935,977, or nearly twice the number in 1870-71. The increase over the number reported the preceding year, 425,258, is unusually large, and would seem to indicate that periods of "hard times" have a favorable effect upon school attendance, numbers of children, perhaps from lack of remunerative labor, being diverted from the factory or workshop to the school.

The percentage of the school population (5 to 18 years of age) enrolled in the schools is 69.39, as against 69.10 in 1892–93.

TABLE 3.-Number of pupils enrolled in the common schools at various periods, and the relation of the enrollment to the school population.

TABLE 3.—Number of pupils enrolled in the common schools at various periods, and the relation of the enrollment to the school population.-Continued.

TABLE 4.-The school enrollment of 1893-94 classified by sex; per cent of the male and female school population enrolled.

TABLE 5.-The average daily attendance at various periods, and its present relation to the school enrollment.