|
|
Enrolment.
|
Average Daily
Attendance.
|
Number of
Teachers.
|
Public School
Expenditure.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1876
|
8,363,738
|
4,066,848
|
249,283
|
$84,005,333
|
| 1880
|
9,781,521
|
5,805,342
|
282,644
|
80,032,838
|
| 1885
|
11,169,923
|
6,900,625
|
319,549
|
110,384.607
|
| 1886
|
11,435,297
|
7,279,616
|
323,066
|
111,304,927
|
The so-called public schools, although differing widely as to
efficiency between new States and old States, between rich States and
poor States, all conform closely to a traditional type, except so far
as differences arise according as schools are in sparsely or in densely
settled districts through the opportunity for grading the pupils
which exists in the latter case. As regards, however, schools giving
instruction higher than or other than that given in the ordinary
public school, the greatest and most confusing differences exist as
to designation, organization, and schemes of instruction.
The following table (XL.) presents the results of the compilations
of the statistics of schools of the various classes by the United
States Bureau of Education:—
|
|
Schools.
|
Teachers.
|
Pupils.
|
|
|
|
|
| Normal schools
|
153
|
1394
|
40,325
|
| Commercial and business colleges
|
239
|
1040
|
47,176
|
| Kindergartens
|
417
|
945
|
21,640
|
| Institutions for secondary instruction
|
1440
|
7566
|
151,050
|
| Preparatory schools
|
197
|
1434
|
21,031
|
| Institutions for superior instruction of women
|
204
|
2123
|
27,143
|
| Universities and colleges
|
345
|
4720
|
67,642
|
| Schools of science
|
90
|
974
|
10,532
|
| Schools of theology
|
142
|
803
|
6,344
|
| Schools of law
|
49
|
283
|
3,054
|
| Schools of medicine, of dentistry, and of pharmacy
|
175
|
2829
|
16,407
|
| Training schools for nurses
|
29
|
139
|
837
|
| Institutions for deaf and dumb
|
61
|
596
|
7,411
|
| Institutions for the blind
|
29
|
623
|
2,412
|
| Schools for feeble-minded children
|
16
|
636
|
2,942
|
| Reform schools
|
43
|
877
|
9,213
|
| Industrial and manual training schools
|
63
|
582
|
13,300
|
The census has since 1850 attempted to obtain the number of
church edifices, with the aggregate number of sittings, belonging
to each principal sect or denomination. The results have not been
highly satisfactory, either as to accuracy or as to classification. At
the census of 1880 the attempt to collect the statistics of churches
proved an almost total failure. It seems best, therefore, to adopt, for
the present purpose, the figures (Table XLI.) presented by the
representatives of the various denominations, as they have been revised
and digested by a competent authority, the Rev. Dr W. H. Dupuy,
only adding the remark that no statement of this kind can be made
to meet the views of all persons interested. The statement of Dr
Dupuy does not include the Roman Catholic Church, whose authorities
claim from six and a half to seven millions of adherents.
Table XLI.—Religious Denominations.
| Denomination.
|
Ministers.
|
Members.
|
|
|
|
| Methodist—
|
21,386
|
3,286,168
|
| Non-Episcopal.
|
| 3,307
|
| 13
|
| 38
|
| 625
|
| 485
|
| ...
|
| 2,146
|
|
| 173,648
|
| 2,265
|
| 2,465
|
| 12,081
|
| 17,727
|
| 20,000
|
| 119,110
|
|
| Independent Methodist
|
| Primitive Methodist
|
| Free Methodist
|
| American Wesleyan
|
| Congregationalist Methodist
|
| Protestant Methodist
|
|
|
|
|
| Episcopal
|
| 18,079
|
| 91
|
| 530
|
| 1,340
|
| 1,483
|
| 3,644
|
| 11,042
|
|
| 3,112,520
|
| 3,500
|
| 84,495
|
| 231,735
|
| 266,419
|
| 828,035
|
| 1,698,336
|
|
| Union American M. E.
|
| Coloured M. E.
|
| African M. E. Zion
|
| African M. E.
|
| Methodist Episcopal South
|
| Methodist Episcopal
|
|
|
|
|
| Baptist—
|
18,716
|
2,430,105
|
| Six Principle
|
|
| 2,746
|
| 8,576
|
| 41,660
|
| 74,851
|
| 2,302,272
|
|
| Seventh-Day
|
| Anti-Mission
|
| Free-Will
|
| Baptist
|
|
|
|
|
| Presbyterian—
|
7,897
|
885,468
|
| Reformed
|
|
| 5,876
|
| 81,226
|
| 98,063
|
| 119,583
|
| 580,720
|
|
| United
|
| Cumberland
|
| Presbyterian South
|
| Presbyterian
|
|
|
|
|
| Lutheran
|
3,025
|
569,389
|
| Christian (Disciples of Christ)
|
2,658
|
556,941
|
| Congregational
|
3,574
|
384,800
|
|
|
|
|
| Episcopal—
|
3,215
|
336,669
|
| Reformed Episcopal
|
|
|
| Protestant Episcopal
|
|
|
|
|
| United Brethren
|
2,178
|
155,579
|
| Reformed, in United States
|
755
|
154,003
|
| United Evangelical
|
425
|
144,666
|
| Evangelical Association
|
1,343
|
99,710
|
|
|
|
|
| Adventist—
|
746
|
89,333
|
| Adventist
|
|
|
| Seventh Day
|
| Second
|
|
|
|
|
| The Brethren (Dunkards)
|
1,589
|
88,669
|
| Reformed, in America
|
515
|
77,269
|
| Friends
|
878
|
74,313
|
| Mormon
|
3,816
|
72,684
|
| Universalist
|
691
|
36,891
|
| Church of God (Winebrennarian)
|
492
|
20,176
|
| Unitarian
|
382
|
19,784
|
| Moravian
|
103
|
16,127
|
| Jewish
|
202
|
13,683
|
| New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian)
|
92
|
5,538
|
- (F. A. W.)