+----------------+------------------+--------------+--------------+ | | Total Number of | Children who | % of Increase| | NAME OF SCHOOL | Colored Children | Came from | within the | | +------------------+ Southern | last 10 | | | Jan. Oct. | States | Months | +----------------+--------+---------+--------------+--------------+ | Franklin | 69 | 99 | 37 | 44 | | Miller | 36 | 57 | 17 | 58 | | Madison | 20 | 28 | 3 | 40 | | Moorhead | 178 | 222 | 55 | 25 | | Minersville | 181 | 271 | 97 | 50 | | Letsche | 91 | 160 | 55 | 76 | | McKelvy | 88 | 120 | 33 | 36 | | Somers | 201 | 289 | 45 | 39 | | Watt | 422 | 529 | 62 | 26 | | Rose | 129 | 198 | 62 | 53 | | | ---- | ---- | ---- | | | | 1415 | 1973 | 466 | | +----------------+--------+---------+--------------+--------------+ Total Average Increase 40% Table number XXVII was compiled from the figures supplied by the principals of the ten schools listed. These schools are located in the Hill District. The figures indicate the increase in the one section only, and do not include all the children who have been brought from the South, but whose parents reside in other sections of the city. The marked increase in the total number of colored children and the great increase in the number of children who have come to this city within the last ten months is significant. As one would expect the majority of these children are in the lower four grades. This was the case even before the migration but is especially true since the migration. Many of the children from the South either had no schooling at all, or were attending schools with lower standards than ours. The problem of over-aged pupils is very significant among the Negro children. A principal in one of these schools who has recently made a little study of over-aged pupils in these eleven schools finds that the percentage of Negro children eleven years and over in the lower four grades, is far greater than that of the whites (sixteen percent Negro as compared with four and seven tenths percent whites). This, the same principal remarks, is in spite of the fact that the tendency of the schools is often to promote children upon the basis of their size and age, rather than because of academic attainment. What is more the white children in most of these schools come from homes where the parents are not Americans, but foreigners who often do not speak the English language.