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fourth grade than in the third, or in the third than in the second, probably mostly on account of families moving in with children who have already been to school a few years

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 Fig. 43. Graph showing percentage distribution by grades of white and negro pupils enrolled in public schools of central Florida and the whole State, above the chart or kindergarten grade, 1915-16.
 In this diagram the same superiority of whites over negroes and of central Florida over the rest of the State already brought out in several other ways is apparent. A similar curve for the whole United States would be so close to that for whites in the whole State of Florida that it could hardly be separated on the small scale used here.
 Private Schools. There are quite a number of private schools, but only those of collegiate grade-can be mentioned here. Very little statistical information is given about some of them in places where one would ordinarily look for it (such as recent issues of the New York World Almanac), but in order of size or reputation, or both, they seem to be as follows: John B. Stetson University (Baptist), at DeLand, with about 37 instructors and 500 students: Southern College (Methodist), at Sutherland in Pinellas County, with about 24 instructors and 210 students; Rollins College (with Congregational and southern Presbyterian affiliatIf the entire population could be graded in this way by the, census the results would be extremely interesting, but to the best of the writer's knowledge that has never been done except in Iowa.