The average value of public-school property per pupil enrolled has increased from $129 in 1922 to $154 in 1924. This increase is due not so much to increased values of real estate as it is to newer and better buildings, better equipment, and more extensive grounds. It is safe to say that our public-school children were never better housed than at present, although there is still room for improvement. A large number of cities report considerable congestion. The percentage of public-school expenditures going for sites, buildings, and contents for 1920 is 14.8 per cent; for 1922 it is 19.4 per cent; and for 1924 it is 21.3 per cent. This increase over previous years reflects the efforts of school districts toward resuming building programs that were curtailed during the war period or held in abeyance when building costs began to increase so rapidly above the pre-war figures.

In the matter of permanent school funds for public-school education, Texas leads with a total of over $80,000,000. Minnesota has fortyfour million, Virginia and Oklahoma have nearly twenty-four and one half million each, and South Dakota has twenty-four million in a permanent school fund. North Dakota, Washington, Montana, Indiana, New Jersey, Missouri, Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska each has a permanent school fund of over $10,000,000.

Nearly a half billion dollars of public-school resources are in school lands. Minnesota leads with $85,000,000, South Dakota has seventyfive million, Montana forty-six million, Colorado forty-one million, and eight other States have unsold lands valued at over $10,000,000 each.

TABLE 1.-School and college enrollments in 1923–24

TABLE 2.-School enrollment and estimated costs in 1923-24

The items beginning "Teachers colleges, extension courses," are not included in Table 1.
TABLE 3.-Gifts and bequests to education, 1914-1924

2,386,889, 132

1,495, 773

607, 431

116, 283

143, 012

706, 546

1,357, 719

31, 357, 398

37,095, 280

40, 548 616, 817 1,748, 258 29, 856, 568

2,257, 359

128,588 2,253,598

758, 998

$27,450,945 $65, 286, 159 $77, 400, 756 $81,784,738

34, 310 2,096, 687

(1)

67, 417, 156 78, 330, 790

83,578,479

TABLE 4.-Gifts and bequests to education from 1871 to 1924

Figures for 1922.

TABLE 6.-Kindergarten, elementary, commercial, secondary, normal school, and college enrollments, 1890-1924

Elementary schools
and kindergartens

TABLE 7.-Enrollment in certain types of schools, by States, 1923-24