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Table 1 Numbers of high schools (public and private) form 1889-1890 to 1927-1928

From: Historical insights into British, Japanese and US general science from the first half of the twentieth century

Year

No. of schools reporting (No. of students)

1889-1890

4,158 (297,894)

1899-1900

7,983 (630,048)

1909-1910

11,994 (1,032,461)

1919-1920

16,419 (2,041,308)

1927-1928

20,564 (4,486,562)

  1. (Source: Kandel, I. L. (1930). History of secondary education: A study in the development of liberal education. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 449.)
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