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.

328 EDUCATIONAL SURVEY OF THE PHILIPPINES

According to this table 56.4 per cent of the pupils in the three private schools come from outside the Province of Cebu, while almost 90
per cent of the public high-school pupils have homes within the province. The same is true of the schools in Manila. Here approximately
86 per cent of those enrolled in the private high schools are drawn
TABLE 31.-PERCENTAGE OF PUPILS COMING FROM THE MUNICIPALITY OF CEBU,
FROM THE PROVINCE OF CEBU, AND FROM OUTSIDE OF THE PROVINCE. FACTS FOR
THE PROVINCIAL HIGH SCHOOL AND THREE PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF CEBU.
Provincial Three private
high schools high schools
Percentage from municipality of Cebu............................... 18.7 12.7
Percentage from province outside municipality...................... 70.8 30.9
Percentage from outside province.................................. 10.5 56.4
Total.................................................... 100.0 100.0
N um ber of cases.................................................. 931 340
from outside the city. The corresponding percentage for the public
high schools is but 25. Corroborative evidence could be presented
from other provinces.
A partial explanation of this situation in Manila is found in the regulations governing attendance at the Manila high schools. These schools
are city schools, and, by levying rather heavy tuition charges on pupils
seeking attendance from outside the city, a conscious effort has been
made to limit the enrollment in these schools to children whose homes
are in Manila. This explains in a measure the small number of
children in the public schools and the large number in the private
schools from outside the city, but it does not explain the small number
in the latter from within the city. Nor does this regulation account
for similar tendencies in other provinces. The public high school serves
a relatively restricted area because it attracts a great many children
of very modest means. The pupils of the private schools, on the other
hand, since they represent more largely the favored classes, can and
do come from a distance.
MENTAL LEVEL OF THE HIGH-SCHOOL POPULATION
We have observed that those who attend the public high school
come largely from those municipalities which are near the high school.
We have also observed that, however more selective socially the private
school may be, the public high-school population is drawn from the
relatively favored elements in the population. Although this institution has made a notable contribution towards the democratization of secondary education, attendance is still largely dependent on circumstance.