TABLE 9.-Enrollment and average attendance in colored public schools, compared with white, mainly for 1888-'89. TABLE 10.-Length of school term, and number of teachers, with their monthly salaries, in colored and white schools, mainly for 1888-'89. Number of colored schools, excluding those in cities under local laws. Includes only the States tabulated in the same column above. Remarks upon the tables. Number of colored children in the schools.-It will be seen that, taking all the above States together, the colored children form 32.7 per cent, or a trifle less than one-third of the total school population 6 to 14 years of age, while the colored pupils form only 27.6 per cent, or little more than one-fourth of the total enrollment; i. e., the colored population supplies considerably less than its due proportion of pupils to the public schools. This is the case in each of the States individually, with the exception of North Carolina and Texas, where the proportion of children and of school enrollment is about the same, and the District of Columbia, where the proportion of colored children is 35.3 per cent and of colored pupils 36.3 per cent. Looking at the actual number of pupils enrolled for each 100 children of 6 to 14 years of age (columns 6 and 7, Table 9) it is found to be 72 for the colored population and 91 for the white, a decided difference; and if the number of white children receiving an education outside of the public schools could be taken into consideration a still greater discrepancy would appear. Regularity of attendance.-Not only are there fewer colored pupils than white enrolled in proportion to the number of children, but the regularity of attendance of colored pupils is less than the white. The summaries of columns 10 and 11, Table 9, show that out of every 100 colored pupils enrolled 62.3 on an average attend each day; and out of a like number of white pupils 65 attend each day on an average. This is not a very great difference, however, and under all the circumstances may be considered a satisfactory relative showing. In Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, and South Carolina the regularity of the colored pupils exceeds that of the white. Length of school term.-The colored schools are kept an average of 89.2 days in the nine States which furnish the necessary data for determining this item, and the white schools an average of 98.6 days (columns 2 and 3, Table 10). Delaware furnishes a large part of this difference, due to the colored people being left mainly to their own resources in that State. In Maryland, also, there is a considerable difference in the length of the school terms. Outside of these two States the difference is trifling. Teachers' wages.-The average of the monthly wages of colored teachers in six States reporting this item is $27.35; of white teachers, $32.74 (columns 5 and 6, Table 10). This difference may be considered to proceed in part from the circumstance that among the white teachers there are a greater proportional number of the higher and better-paid grades than among the colored, thus raising their average. In Kentucky the average wages of the colored teachers exceed those of the white. This results from the colored districts being larger than the white districts, containing more children, and therefore drawing more of the State money, which is applied exclusively to the payment of the district teacher. TABLE 11.-Amount and disposition of the sums disbursed from the Slater fund from 1883 to 1889, inclusive. TABLE 12.-Expenditure of moneys derived from Peabody Fund, classified by race. Location. TABLE 13.-Statistics of institutions for the instruction of the colored race, for 1888-'89. Morristown, Tenn Morristown Normal Academy. Austin, Tex.. Holly Springs, Miss. Salisbury, N.C.. Greenwood, S. C Nashville, Tenn.. Do.. Do. Hempstead, Tex NORMAL SCHOOLS. Central Alabama Academy. State Colored Normal and Industrial School State Normal School for Colored Students Normal Department of Talladega College Miner Normal School Normal Department of Howard University Howard Normal School* Normal and Industrial School * Normal Department of New Orleans University Normal Department of Tougaloo University Ashborough Normal School State Colored Normal School ..do M. E., So.. M. E do Baptist do do St. Augustine Normal School and Collegiate In- P. E Non-sect... 3063526 129 302 250 186 239 176 269 1169 students not included here were attending schools designed for whites. This institution is open to both races, and the figures given include some whites. Cong 5 186 .do. Cong 18 Cath.. 10 580 293 427 300 M. E. 7 241 Cath. 13 120 Bapt. 5 92 |