. Report . PROMOTIONS INELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Year Boys 1923 13,435 1924 11,999 1925 10,673 1926 10,382 1923 5,722 1924 5,173 1925 4,800 1926 4,359 Number Percent Girls Total Boys Girls Total White 8,586 22,0217,193 19,1926,336 17,0096,128 16,510 Colored 4,616 10,3384,104 9,2773,700 8,5003,334 7,693 , FAILURE BY GRADES The greatest number and per cent of failures occur in the firstgrade. Entrance too late in the year to permit pupils to masterthe complexities of reading; irregular attendance due
. Report . PROMOTIONS INELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Year Boys 1923 13,435 1924 11,999 1925 10,673 1926 10,382 1923 5,722 1924 5,173 1925 4,800 1926 4,359 Number Percent Girls Total Boys Girls Total White 8,586 22,0217,193 19,1926,336 17,0096,128 16,510 Colored 4,616 10,3384,104 9,2773,700 8,5003,334 7,693 , FAILURE BY GRADES The greatest number and per cent of failures occur in the firstgrade. Entrance too late in the year to permit pupils to masterthe complexities of reading; irregular attendance due to sicknessand the prevalence of epidemics of diseases to which children 64 NoN Promotions by Grade 65 in the first grade are especially liable to attack, and the imma-turity of many of the children when they enter are some of the CHART 10 NGN PROMOTIONS BT GRADES TKAJB ENDING JOLT 31, 19*6 White Blsoant&ry School*Nxunber „_^„ Grade Boys Oirls ^^H Per Cent Bojb \///A Per Cent Olrlft ^ 2538 £ 545678. NunherGrade Boye Girle 1554 556564615445 34€ 240 17 1263363 Colored Blementc^ry Schools ■■■Per Cent Boys Y/Z/A^^r Cent Girls i ^//////////////A 477 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^y 355 f^^^^^^^^^^T^TT^Z^Z^^ (£££■■■■■■■■■■■■■■1274 //////////////////A 206 ^^mmmm 66 Annual Report of State Department op Education factors which operate to start children in their first year ofschool work as failures. The cooperation of parents in sendingchildren to school at the beginning of the year, in keeping themin regular attendance when they are well, and in cooperating incarrying out health measures recommended by doctors, nursesand the Health Department will be of material aid in reducingstill further the number of failures. (See Chart 10.) The larger number of failures appearing in the upper gradesis partly due to the number of 100-day pupils in the rural schoolswho attend only a part of the year, and cannot complete all ofthe work to be covered. The number and per
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