--------------+------------+---------------+-------------+------------- | | CLASSES | CLASSES | CLASSES | | CORRESPONDING |CORRESPONDING|CORRESPONDING KIND OF SCHOOL|KINDERGARTEN|TO GRADES 1 TO | TO GRADES 5 | TO HIGH |DEPARTMENTS |4 IN ELEMENTARY| TO 8 | SCHOOL | | SCHOOLS | | GRADES --------------+------------+---------------+-------------+------------- Institutions | 1,063 | 5,040 | 3,365 | 1,069 Day Schools | 134 | 1,195 | 559 | 38 Denominational| | | | and Private | | | | Schools | 63 | 244 | 163 | 16 +------------+---------------+-------------+------------- Total | 1,260 | 6,479 | 4,087 | 1,123 For 1912 there were reported 133 graduates from the schools: 130 from institutions, 2 from day schools, and 1 from denominational or private schools.[563] INDUSTRIAL TRAINING IN THE SCHOOLS The industrial training given in the American schools for the deaf forms a very important feature of the work--in many respects it may be said to be the most important. In many of the schools industrial instruction was recognized almost from the very start, and in a number it commenced practically with the beginning of the work of education.[564] It is now provided in all the institutions, in nearly all the day schools, and in over half of the denominational and private schools. Many of the institutions have large, well-equipped shop and trade departments, with skilled and capable instructors. Nearly every pupil at a suitable age is put at some industry, and encouragement and special opportunity are often given to those who show a particular bent or aptitude. The value of this industrial preparation of the schools in the after lives of the deaf has already been referred to.[565] The following table will show the number and percentage of the pupils in the several kinds of schools in industrial departments, according to the Report of the United States Commissioner of Education for 1911-1912.[566] NUMBER OF PUPILS IN INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENTS IN SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF