. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . ; Sth-YearPupils 1 1 28 4 5 30 21 1 12 23 1 26 31 4 28 63 6 34 68 21 26 90 21 28 91 6 30 110 4 30 119 21 30 168 17 27 188 G 7 24 Total, 13 353 Cooking Rooms Required—Intermediate Schools (7A-8B) Schools Districts Number of SingleCooking Rooms Single Periods Usedper Week for 7th & Sth-Year PupUs, April,1911 Average No. SinglePeriods Used per Weekfor 7th & 8th-YearPupils 62159 320 22 63 68 Total, 4 1 131 These figures were taken from the Teachers Schedule of Assignment and from Principa


. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . ; Sth-YearPupils 1 1 28 4 5 30 21 1 12 23 1 26 31 4 28 63 6 34 68 21 26 90 21 28 91 6 30 110 4 30 119 21 30 168 17 27 188 G 7 24 Total, 13 353 Cooking Rooms Required—Intermediate Schools (7A-8B) Schools Districts Number of SingleCooking Rooms Single Periods Usedper Week for 7th & Sth-Year PupUs, April,1911 Average No. SinglePeriods Used per Weekfor 7th & 8th-YearPupils 62159 320 22 63 68 Total, 4 1 131 These figures were taken from the Teachers Schedule of Assignment and from Principals Statement ofCooking, on file at the office of the Board of Education. Table X shows that in schools having all grades, cooking rooms wereused in the instruction of 7th and 8th-year pupils on the average periods per week; in intermediate schools, —an averagedifference in favor of intermediate schools of periods. Had thesame average prevailed as prevailed in intermediate schools, the 353periods of instruction given in schools having all grades could have been. THE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL 487 given in cooking rooms (353-^) instead of thirteen, or less than were used. It therefore api)ears that per cent. (^-I3) fewer cookingrooms are required to pro\ide for a given number of 7th and 8tli-yearpupils in intermediate schools than to provide for the same number ofsuch pupils in schools having all grades. Like manual training, cooking is regularly taught only in the 7thand 8th years. The Board of Superintendents may, however, authorizethe giving of cooking to other pupils. This is done particularly in caseof over-age girls in the 6A and 6B grades. Cooking rooms mav conse-quently be used by other than 7th and 8th-year pupils. Table XI shows, as of April, 1911, for schools having all grades,the number of cooking rooms, the total number of single periods eachcooking room was used per week, and the average number of singleperiods per we


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