The primary schools are distributed in the cities, villages, and rural communes to suit the convenience of pupils attending. Other and higher schools are provided where most needed. As is true everywhere the bulk of work is done in the primary schools. Rural and city schools have their own laws and government, and are admirably adapted to the needs of their respective constituencies. As would be expected, the rural schools and the pupils attending them far outnumber those in the cities and towns. There are in the country five thousand, nine hundred and seventy schools attended by two hundred seventy-five thousand, one hundred and fifty-five pupils, while there are but sixty-one city school systems having an enrollment of ninety thousand, one hundred and twenty-nine pupils.[5] It is seen that there are about three times as many pupils in the rural primary schools as are found in the city primary schools. The distribution and care of the city school pupils are, however, much larger tasks than providing for those in the rural sections. In order to show conditions in a given city we insert Table I which indicates the number of classes and pupils in the several grades in the nineteen primary schools of Christiania, and also gives the totals for the entire city. Boys and girls attend the same school, but in this particular city they are generally separated into different rooms where they are taught by themselves. The schools are co-educational but not generally coinstructional. As the table will show, some of them are coinstructional through a part of the course while only one follows this plan throughout its work. TABLE I Pupils in the Primary Schools of Christiania in the month of April, 1908 NUMBER OF CLASSES AND PUPILS IN THEM --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Grade 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th Schools Cl. Pu. Cl. Pu. Cl. Pu. Cl. Pu. Cl. Pu. Cl. Pu. Cl. Pu. A. {Boys 3 112 3 99 3 114 4 136 3 115 3 96 3 95 {Girls 3 107 3 113 3 116 3 105 3 111 3 191 2 83 B. {Boys 5 183 5 194 4 157 4 160 5 199 5 177 4 144 {Girls 5 178 5 184 5 196 4 140 5 188 4 151 4 149 C. {Boys 2 89 2 90 2 100 2 98 2 98 2 79 2 64 {Girls 2+1 99 2+1 96 2+1 101 2+1 95 2+1 97 2+1 89 2 77 D. {Boys 3 139 3 123 4 140 3 127 3 108 3 103 3 93 {Girls 3+1 119 3+1 132 3 117 3+1 139 3 028 3 110 3 101 E. {Boys 3 121 4 149 3 113 2 77 2 74 2 72 2 65 {Girls 3 115 4 152 3 101 3 116 3 115 2 77 2 60 F. {Boys 3 138 2 93 2 83 2 67 3 98 3 107 1 37 {Girls 3+1 122 2+1 102 2+1 104 3 104 2 77 2 79 2 65