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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years of the high school, the senior class is much smaller and more
highly selected than the freshman class. In Table 28 the freshmen
and seniors in the four provincial and the three Manila high schools
are compared from the standpoint of parental occupation. According
to the facts presented in this table certain of the occupational groups,
particularly the merchant class, have a considerably higher proportional
TABLE 28.-PERCENTAGES OF FRESHMEN AND SENIORS FROM EACH OCCUPATIONAL
GROUP. FACTS FOR FOUR PROVINCIAL HIGH SCHOOLS AND THE THREE MANILA
HIGH SCHOOLS.

Provincial high schools Manila high schools
Parental occupation - - -
Freshmen Seniors Freshmen Seniors
_~~ ~~._ _

Merchants and proprietors of business.....
Professional service......................
Managers and officials..................
Clerical and commercial service..........
Farm owners............................
Farm tenants..........................
Fishermen..............................
Artisans and skilled laborers..............
Common laborers........................
Unclassified...........................
Total............................

15.1 22.8 14.9 26.5
3.7 3.4 8.6 11.6
5.6 8.1 8.3 10.0
4.6 3.7 19.9 18.6
52.8 50.0 8.5 11.4
3.4 3.0.6.7
3.5 1.8 1.3.5
8.4 4.8 30.1 15.7
1.7 1.4 4.2 1.5
1.2 1.0 3.6 3.5

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
=- loa _ I~

Number of cases........................ 1,909 496 2,309 543
representation in the last than in the first year of the school, whereas,
for certain of the groups, such as the manual laborers, the reverse is
true. Because the occupational life in the city is more complex and
because the occupational classification consequently reflects differences
in economic and social position more accurately for the urban than for
the rural community, these differences appear to be more marked in
the city than in the province.
Since the private schools carry on the older tradition of secondary
education, a comparison will now be made between the pupil population
of the public and private secondary schools. In the first half of
Table 29 the population of the Cebu provincial high school is compared with that of three private secondary schools in the City of CebuImmaculate Conception High School, San Carlos College, and the
Visayan Institute. In the second half of the table the comparison is
drawn between the seniors in the three Manila public high schools and
the seniors in the seventeen private secondary schools in Manila which
offer the work of the fourth year. An examination of the facts here
presented shows certain differences in the social composition of the