A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

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Cebu, for example, the ratio of pupils enrolled in the provincial high
school to the population of the municipality ranges from 22 in Borbon to
328 in Cebu. In Pangasinan the range is from 19 in Bayambang to
510 in Lingayen. Whether or not a boy or girl will attend high
school in any province seems to depend in considerable measure on the
municipality in which he happens to live.
Although there are various factors which enter into the situation to
determine attendance, the fundamental factor as revealed by this investigation is that of geographical accessibility. In each of the above
provinces, and in two others in which a similar study was made, the
highest ratio of attendance to population was found in the municipality
in which the provincial high school was located. The degree to which
TABLE 26.-PER CENT OF HIGH-SCHOOL ENROLLMENT COMING FROM THE MUNICIPALITY IN WHICH HIGH SCHOOL IS LOCATED AND FROM WITHIN A RADIUS OF 20
KILOMETERS; PER CENT OF THE POPULATION OF THE PROVINCE RESIDING IN EACH
OF THESE AREAS ACCORDING TO CENSUS OF 1918.
Per cent of
Per ceo c ent of high-school Per cent of
high-school Per enrollment population
population
High school enrollment living in coming from living within
from munici- within ra dius radius of 20
pality municipality of 20 kilo - kilometers
meters
Cebu........................... 26.0 7.7 43.0 21.3
Occidental Negros.............. 23.8 4.9 58.5 23.4
Pangasinan.................. 16.0 4.0 44.0 30.0
Taya as........................ 30.2 5.8 50.4 26.8
accessibility influences attendance is well brought out in Table 26.
In this table is given for each of four provincial high schools the percentage of the high-school enrollment coming from the municipality in
which the high school is located and the percentage of the provincial
population residing in that municipality. Corresponding data are also
given for the area within a radius of 20 kilometers of the high school.
From the city of Cebu, for example, the municipality in which the
provincial high school is situated, comes 26 per cent of the high-school
population, whereas but 7.7 per cent of the population of the province
resides in this municipality. Moreover, from within a radius of 20 kilometers, an area in which is found but 21.3 per cent of the population
of the province, comes 43 per cent of the high-school enrollment.
If the tendencies in these four provinces are at all representative, and
the members of the Commission believe they are, it may be assumed that
approximately 50 per cent of the pupils attending a high school in the
Islands will be drawn from within a radius of twenty or twenty-five
kilometers of the school building. There is some truth, therefore, in
the contention that these provincial high schools, though supported out
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