TABLE C.-Expenditure per capita of school population, white and colored (that is, per capita of children 5 to 18 years of age).

a Excluding certain small sums not classified by race, and a few counties not reported.
b Does not include permanent improvements in Baltimore City.

e Does not include permanent improvements outside of Baltimore.

d Includes salaries of teachers and superintendents only (or cost of tuition).

e Approximately.

f Does not include permanent improvements.

g For 8 months.

h In 1896-97.

TABLE D.-School expenditure of the sixteen former slare States and the District of Columbia, approximately classified by race,

White.

Colored.

White.

Colored

DIAGRAM 1.-Number of pupils enrolled in the common schools of the United States each year since 1870-71.

DIAGRAM 2.-Showing the per cent of the total population enrolled in the common schools

each year since 1870-71.

DIAGRAM 3.-Showing the average number of days the schools were kept cach year since

1870-71.

1879-80

90

School Days.

Year.
1870-71 132.1
1871-72 133.4

1872-73 129.1

1873-74 128.8