the negro race, excluding public high schools. Table 159 gives in detail the statistics of these schools so far as it was possible for this Bureau to obtain the information. A number of schools failed to respond to repeated requests for statistics.

TABLE 154.-Sixteen former slave States and the District of Columbia.

TABLE 155.-Common school statistics of the South, 1906-7.

1901-2.
1902-3 a.

4,386,322

1,329,549
1,354,316
1,367,515
1, 432, 198
1,423,593
1,449, 325
1,460,084
1,540, 749
1,509, 275
1,560,070
1,594, 308
1,575, 659

31,286, 883 31,247, 218 33, 110, 581 34,805,568

35, 998, 667 37,887,537

$26, 690,310 27,091.488

28,335,738

29,223,546

29,443,584

31,149,724

4,428, 842

1,578, 632

39,582,654

1903-4 a.

4,522, 744

1,577, 385

43,653,647

1904-5 a..

4,564,798

1,602, 194

46,401,832

TABLE 155.-Common school statistics of the South, 1906-7—Continued.

TABLE 156.-Teachers and students in public high schools for the colored race, 1906-7.

TABLE 157.—Teachers and students in secondary and higher schools for the colored race in 1906-7 (not including public high schools).

275 1,707, 1, 798 741 690 60 50 2,508 2,538 5,046 604 917 1,521
389 484 196 174
19 626

4 21 22 43

41

677 1,303

152

191

343

3 14

9

lumbia.

282

20 102

Total... 132 9981, 242 2, 240 11, 430 15.361 5, 6347, 4103, 249 1,546 20,313 24, 31744,6307,832/14, 156:21, 988

TABLE 158.-Financial summary of the 132 secondary and higher colored schools, 1906–7 (not including public high schools).

756

174

Texas.
Virginia.
West Virginia

10

22,920

21,600

2

2,600

11

900, 904

3

8.925

5

16, 512

9,010

3

15,275

6

955,000

6,570

State.

TABLE 158.-Financial summary of the 132 secondary and higher colored schools, 1906–7 (not including public high schools)-Continued.

TABLE 159.-Secondary and higher schools for the colored race (excluding