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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt:...in Diagram 25..' i Differences Between Individual Schools The records from various schools were next taken up, and it appeared here, as in all the studies reported in preceding chapters, that there is the greatest difference between schools. Some send only their best pupils on to high school; others send their poor, their medium, and their good pupils in substantially equal proportions; still others send forward surprisingly large proportions of their poorest pupils. In the full report the results of this comparison are presented in complete tabular form for all the etementary schools. The results show that the pupils from some schools fall far short of maintaining in the high schools the relative standings that they had in the elementary ones. On this basis some schools show little more than 70 per cent of efficiency. At Low Middle High Jhird third third Diagram 25.--Per cent of eighth grade pupils entering high school from the low third, the middle third, and the high third of their classes the other extreme there are schools which send forward pupils who are so well prepared that their relative standing in high school is much improved over what it was in the grades. Some of these schools show a per cent of efficiency as high as 130. HIGH SCHOOLS It is a much more complex problem to determine the efficiency of a high school than to form an estimate regarding the character of the work done in an elementary school. The best basis on which to attempt an estimate of high schools is the routine record of ordinary work. The examination of such a record yields many facts which go far toward justifying final judgments. TABLE 8.--PER CENT OF PUPILS ENTERING EACH HIGH SCHOOL IN 1914 WHO WERE IN THE HIGHEST, MIDDLE, AND LOWEST THIRDS OF THEIR EIGHTH GRADE CLASSES IN...