THE DURATION OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE. DANIEL FOLKMAR, Lale Lecturer in Social Science, University of C^'icago, Fellow of Roijal Statistical Societt/, etc. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Vol. XII. [Issued August, 1S98, in advance of general publication.] THE DURATION OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE. 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First 8,936 8,857 6,672 4,648 10,242.8 8,133.1 7,160.4 5,003.1 10,619.7 8,061.2 7,843.4 5,465.6 11,472.4 8,300.5 8.402.7 5,329.2 11,155.0 8,779.6 8,278.3 6,255.9 11,788.3 Second 9,147.3 8,664.9 Third Fourth 6,646.8 Total Primary 29,113 30,539.4 31,989.9 33,504.8 34,468.8 36,247.3 Fifth 3,089 2,29C 1.586 994 2,853.9 2,460.2 1,486.9 867.9 3,223.8 2,359.2 1,675.9 988.6 3,933.4 2,501.4 1,654.3 835.7 4,242.7 2,659.0 1,728.5 768.6 4,689.0 2, 7%. 3 1,821.0 Sixth Eighth 898.7 Total Grammar 7,959 7,668.9 8,247.4 8,924.8 9,398.8 10,205.0 Ninth 550.5 239.8 76.2 63.7 917.8 674.3 396.2 56.9 50.5 1,177.9 743.2 441.0 91.7 56.1 644.0 465.6 111.4 66.6 582.5 420.1 71.3 105.1 477.5 Tenth 355.0 Eleventh 146.9 Twelfth 63.7 Total High School 1,332.0 1,287.6 1,179.0 1,043.1 Totals 37,989.8 39,386.2 41,569.3 43,717.2 45,075.9 47,523 284 Folkmar — The Duration of School Attendance. o CS o o 00 C-1 IM 1 -* o IN -<* C<1 t- •r: OC >r 8 CO •p- t- o- o g i-i a- urs CM It- 1 t— u- CO 1- 1 ^ o CT 1 H P ■< K S T- „ rC X c f iS OT C a t: V X t X C > 1 _c c 1 a 1 5 E' fe cc Eh I^ ?; H W H statistics. 285 cc to CO C^ CJO CCl to 1-i in 00 03 o» 00 -rt* oo CD C CO C5 CO CD CO OO C5 Ci ^ CO C<1 OO OO Oi OO Oi Oi Q Q) O) Q2 O 00 OS en OS OO CM OO Ori OS TO 1-H to OO OS OS OS OS OS OS OO TO o Oi in no -^ CO irt CD CO 03 CD CD CO tft CD OO OS Ci t^ C CO »-l TO lO to OO TO to t- OO OS OS OS OO OO i-< O t— c^ to 00 OO OS OS OS OO TO to 00 CC OS OS OS 00 in 00 OO OS OS TO in to OS in CO fin CO lO CD CD CO -f CO CO CD OO OO 05 05 00 Ci Ci OO OS OS Id! ta (K H |s< N 02 oi H 286 Folkmar — Tlie Duration of School Attendance o 1 rH)n-*OT»^ Oit-lft'* ,-c M tH rH « 1 1 1 «5 •rt CD'*M'-1 |o5001rt-*| s 1 1 i T-i|t--*coi-< mc-if CO T-l 1 M Tl tH r-l rt 1 1 1 .-l|05m?Qi-l COCD-<*CO rt 1 (M rH rt tH 1 1 1 CO CD CO ^ co'^coo t-m-^col CO i-l i-H tH 1 1 1 COCDC^IO l:-lO-*Cir CO ra 1 1 '^ "" K 1 » i o 1 -* ^ OC ir CO CJ 1 < H >H . 1 A o6 00 CO o ^ X >n CO (M O CO O s M o • < > tU) 0) o IB « i^ c« H fe 1 fe a 02 H 1 statistics. 287 ^ !2i 'S "*-. 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Table XVII. — Averaye Per Cent, of First Grade Enrollment Dropped out by End of Each Grade. — Chicago. Gbade. AVEKAGES OF 4 YeAES. 1880-83. 1884-87. 1888-91. First 45.49 54.58 67.75 76.04 44.51 57.76 69.26 76.84 41.64 50.99 Third 60.60 Fourth Fifth 84.77 90.08 93.89 96.36 83.75 89.65 9l.8:i Sixth Eighth . . Ninth 97.46 98.49 99.06 100.00 Tenth Twelfth statistics. 299 Table 'S.Ylll.— Influence of Death upon Duration of School Attend- ance. I. Grade. II. Corres- ponding age. III. Printed per cent, of deaths. IV. Per cent. dropped out. V, Per cent. remaining. VI. Corrected per cent, of deaths. VII. Total per cent, drop- ped by death. 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