. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . an entire schoolyear; to estimate over-age in this way is clearly wrong. We are concerned here with over-age in regular classes only. We are notconcerned with over-age among the ^o pupil? in special classes at the end of theFebruary-June term, 1911. See Annual Report of the City Superintendent of Schoolsfor 1911, p. 67. 622 EDUCATIOXAL INI ESTIGATIOX Of the J pupils on register June 30. 1911. in regular classes,17,351. or per cent., were under normal—ahead of their grade;
. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . an entire schoolyear; to estimate over-age in this way is clearly wrong. We are concerned here with over-age in regular classes only. We are notconcerned with over-age among the ^o pupil? in special classes at the end of theFebruary-June term, 1911. See Annual Report of the City Superintendent of Schoolsfor 1911, p. 67. 622 EDUCATIOXAL INI ESTIGATIOX Of the J pupils on register June 30. 1911. in regular classes,17,351. or per cent., were under normal—ahead of their grade; or per cent., were normal—up to grade; and 215,333, or37^87 per cent., were over normal—behind their grade. The smallestnumber of over-age children was in the i.\ grade. : the number islargest in the 5A. 18,647; while from the 5A the number gradually de-creases to in the 8B. Correspondingly, the lowest per cent, ofover-age is in the lA. per cent.; and the highest per cent.,in the 6B; then there is a gradual decrease to per cent, in the 8B grade. Fig. 8. *«s Fig. 8. Black indicates the per cent, of pupils in each grade (Comparewith estimate of City Superintendent of Schools. Fig. 6. p. 580.) 3. The Degree of Over-Age The fact that there were at the end of the Fe1)ruary-June , in regular classes 215,333 over-age pupils is in itself significant,but the full significance of this fact becomes apparent only in view ofthe length of the period these pupils are behind their grades. TableXXIV gives by grades the number of pupils over-age under one year,between one and two years, between two and three years, and threeyears and more; also the per cent, of the total number of over-age pupilsin each grade under one year over-age, betw-een one and two years, etc. Of the over-age pupils. or per cent., areless than one year behind their grade. , or per cent., betweenone and two years; o
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