TABLE 19.-(1) School expenditures per capita of population; (2) same per capita of average attendance.

Expended per capita of population.

Expended per pupil.

South

.95

.87

2.68

2.96 15.71 20.60

7.61

6.60

18.29

27.38

.98

.94

2.76

.99

1.01 2.85 2.40 2.94 1.07 1.06 2.94 2.48 3.04 1.10 1.06 3.07 2.53 3.14 1.12 1.07 3.20 2.54 3.32 1.13

1.06

3. 12

3.11

1896-97

1897-98 (a)

1898-99 (a)

3.28 16.55 21.64 3.37 17.23 23.58 7.78 7.28 19.70 3.78 17.54 23.66 8.52 7.78 19.42 4.03 18.20 24.89 8.74 7.82 20.13 3.97 18.58 25.91 8.65 7.72 20.62 3.53 18.62 26.21 8.61 7.58 21.29 29.06 3.49 18.41 26.84 8.58 7.69 20.26 27.32 3.52 18.76 28.45 8.87 7.60 20.09 27.16 1.03 3.40 18.67 28.77 9.32 7.09 19.75 25.86 1.23 1.03 3.04 3.63 18.86 29.33 9.25 7.07 19.56 28.23 1.03 3.09 3.50 18.99 29.11 9.79 6.92 20.32 26.52

a Subject to correction.

IV.—TABLES OF SCHOOL EXPENDITURE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES, CLASSIFIED BY RACE.

Table A gives the school expenditure, classified by race, in each Southern State that reports the expenditure so classified, as far back as the record goes in each. In Maryland the expenditure for negro schools for the first three or four years is mainly in the city of Baltimore. The totals, of course, include only the States tabulated.

Table B gives the white and colored school population (children 5 to 18 years of age) in each case where the school expenditure is given in Table A. The relative white and colored school expenditure, it is evident, possesses no significance unless considered in connection with the relative number of children of cach race for whose benefit the expenditure was made.

Table C gives the expenditure for white schools per capita of white school population, and the same for the negro schools. The averages include only the States recorded each year.

In making an estimate of the white and colored school expenditure of the remaining Southern States the most obvious assumption to make in the absence of any positive information is to consider that their white and colored school per capita expenditures bear the same ratio to each other each year as the average per capita given in Table C. It is upon this basis that the classifications by race have been made that are given in Table D, except for the years 1870–71 and 1871–72, in which the ratio of white to colored per capita was taken at about 6.

District of Columbia.

TABLE A.-Expenditure for white and colored schools.

Florida.

Kentucky.

Maryland.

District of Columbia.

North Carolina.

Florida.

TABLE C.-Expenditure per capita of white and colored school population (5 to 18 years of age),

District of Columbia.