“In only 7 of the 37 cities is the proportion of pupils who are children of native-born white fathers as high as 60 per cent.” Four cities have less than 30 per cent. The children of German foreign-born fathers are most numerous in Milwaukee, Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Meriden, Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis; those of foreign-born Russian Hebrew fathers in Chelsea, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Newark, and Baltimore, those of foreign-born south Italian fathers in Providence, Newark, New York, Yonkers, Buffalo, and Boston. A smaller proportion of the total number of children of foreign-born fathers are in the higher grades of the public schools than of the children of native-born white fathers, as the following table shows: PER CENT OF PUPILS OF SPECIFIED NATIVITY IN THE SPECIFIED GRADES ══════════════╤══════════════╤══════════════ GRADE │ NATIVE-BORN │ FOREIGN-BORN │ WHITE FATHER │ FATHER ──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────── Kindergarten │ 4.3│ 4.4 Primary grades│ 52.1│ 57.6 Grammar grades│ 34.5│ 33.3 High school │ 9.1│ 4.7 │ —————│ ————— Total │ 100.0│ 100.0 ══════════════╧══════════════╧══════════════ The Slovaks, south Italians, and Magyars have the largest percentages in the kindergartens, and the Portuguese, Lithuanians, Slovaks, south Italians, and Polish the largest percentages in the primary grades. In the high schools, the Canadians, other than French, the Scotch, the native-born white, the Welsh, Germans, Hebrews, and English stand highest. This is due to two main facts,—the longer residence of these latter races in the United States, and their greater desire for a high education for their children, coupled with a greater ability to give it to them. Especially in the case of the kindergartens are the newer immigrating races very eager to have their young children looked after so that the mother can be free to work, or otherwise occupy herself.