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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high school. These facts for the six different curricula offering four
years of work are presented in Table 33. The computations are
made on the basis of enrollment in September, 1924. According to
this table, not far from 50 per cent of the pupils are enrolled in the first
year of the high school, while the fourth year can claim hardly 10
per cent. The relatively small registration in the upper years, however,
TABLE 33.-PER CENT OF PUPILS ENROLLED BY YEARS OR GRADES IN THE DIFFERENT
HIGH-SCHOOL CURRICULA, SEPTEMBER, 1924
Ycar General Dmestic Normal Co Trade Farming All crscience mercial ricula
First.......................... 47.6 59.2 40.8 36.0 50.5 41.5 46.9
Second........................ 27.3 24.2 32.3 32.0 31.1 29.3 28.1
Third......................... 15.1 11.7 18.1 20.6 12.1 18.3 15.4
Fourth........................ 10.0 4.9 8.8 11.4 6.3 10.9 9.6
Total.................. 100.0 100.0 100.0 1000 100.0 100.0 100.0
Number of cases................ 35,083 2,411 6,301 597 1,122 1,805 47,419

is not due altogether to elimination from school. It is due in part to nonpromotion, with the consequent crowding of the first and second years;
but probably more to the growth of the high school. Each freshman
class is larger than its predecessor. Thus, in a growing institution,
if there were neither nonpromotion nor elimination, the enrollment in
the first year would always exceed that in the second, the enrollment
in the second that in the third, and so on. Nevertheless, these figures
do suggest a rather large amount of elimination.
A more accurate measure of persistence is presented in Table 34.
Here is given the number of pupils enrolled in the first year of the
'ABLE 34.-NUMBER OF PUPILS ENROLLED IN EACH YEAR OF THE CLASS ENTERING
THE GENERAL COURSE IN 1921
Percentage
Number each succeedenrolled ing year is of
the first

First year, 1921.................................................. 11,962 100
Second year, 1922................................................ 6,962 59
Third year, 1923................................................. 4,996 42
Fourth year, 1924.............................................. 3,503 29

general course in September, 1921 (the class graduating in March,
1925), the number enrolled in this same class in 1922, 1923, and 1924.
While some pupils, entering high school with this class and failing of
promotion, actually remained in high school the following year, the