250 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT


for other years. In Table 26, as a slight aid to the reader, absolute figures are printed in heavy type, percentages in italics, and other ratios and averages in ordinary type, while in Table 25 the heavy and light figures have the same significance as in other tables in which different regions are contrasted.




 TABLE 26.
Selected Public School Statistics of Central Florida and the Whole State, by Races, 1915-16.
 Cent'l Florida Whole State Whole
 White Negro White \Negro U. SSCHOOLS
Number of schools taught --------------I 581 2071 2099i 817j 281,524
 Per cent by race --------------------- 73.7 1 26-3 | 72.0 1 28.0 ------Average value of school property ($)1--| 50731 10601 33501 7541 5910 Per cent of buildings brick or concrete--I 14-5 1 i.6 1 9.1 1 o.8 Annual expenditure per school taught_--| 23301 5501 16811 468 2280
Do. per capita of total population ------1 6.971 1.22 6.131 0.78 6.28
Do. per pupil in average attendance--.... 40.401 9.441 35.75 6.33 41.72
 TEACHERS I I I
Number of positions filled -------------1 14921 3781 44801 13851 -------Average number per school ------------- 2.571 1.831 2.141 1.70 2.21
Number of teachers employed --------- 15051 3391 45981 11361 622,371 Per cent male ------------------------ 1 18-5 1 i8.6 | 24.1 1 21.9 1 19.8
Average age of male teachers (years)---1 301 351 28 371 ---Average age of female teachers (years)--I 291 281 26 29
Av. experience of male teachers (mos.)-.I 531 711 45 95 -Av. experience of female teachers (mos.).. 411 54i 37 55 -------Av. monthly salary of male teachers--- 1 92.401 38.20 77.32 37.32 85.36 Av. monthly salary of female teachers-- 60.101 34.00 56.651 31.23 66.88 Per cent of teachers subscribing to edu- I I I I
 cational journals ------------------- 60-3 1 52.0 47.8 40.8 ------PUPILS
Total enrollment ---------------------- '43,0381 16,7861135,8881 62,482120,351,687
Number per school taught -------------- 74.3 1 81.0 I 64.7 76.4 72.4
Average daily attendance ------------- 33,4711 12,o631 98,8471 45,572 15,358,927
Number per teacher I--_----- 22.4 1 31.9 1 22.1 1 33.0 24.7