. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . ply thesedata. PROMOTION, NON-PROMOTION, AND PART-TIME 583 Proceeding in this way/ we estimate that, of the pupils entering theelementary schools of the City of New York, the per cent, remainingto the end of each year and the per cent, completing the final grade areas follows: Per Cent. Remain- Per Cent. Drop- ing to the ping Out Before End of the Year the End of Year First Year. Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Completi
. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . ply thesedata. PROMOTION, NON-PROMOTION, AND PART-TIME 583 Proceeding in this way/ we estimate that, of the pupils entering theelementary schools of the City of New York, the per cent, remainingto the end of each year and the per cent, completing the final grade areas follows: Per Cent. Remain- Per Cent. Drop- ing to the ping Out Before End of the Year the End of Year First Year. Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Completing Eighth Grade. 41 It would appear from the foregoing estimates that, of the childrenentering the elementary schools of the City of New York, practicallyall remain to the end of the grades of the fifth year, that one pupil outof each eight leaves before the end of the sixth year, four out of eachten fail to remain to the end of the seventh year, less than one in twocontinues to the end of the eighth year, and but four out of each tengraduate. Fig. 7 niliAj tc toTTipltti tKi 5 ■!(«.«. fc-. Fig. 7. Black indicates the per cent, of pupils failing to complete the gradesof the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth years, and the per cent, failing to graduate. All Other conditions remaining the same, the number of grades apupil is able to complete during the course of his school life is condi- ^ In making this estimate the average of the first-year beginners for 1908-9,1909-10, and 1910-11 was used as the base. See Annual Report of City Superintendentof Schools, 1909, p. 72; 1910, Table XLVII, p. 78. and 1911. TableXXXIII, p. the number of pupils remaining to the end of the grades of each year see AnnualReport of the City Superintendent of Schools, 1911, Table XXXYII, p. 66. The pupilson register June 30, 1911, in special classes were arbitrarily distributed as follows:One-sixteenth to the grades of the second year; one-sixteenth to the grades of thethird year; three-si
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