Schools of medicine. the blind.
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Pupils. Pupils.
States Teachers. | Teachers. |
Schools. | | Schools. | |
| | | | | |
Louisiana 1 5 8 . . .
Maryland . . . 1 1 30
Mississippi 1 1 4 . . .
North Carolina . . . 1 15 90
Tennessee 1 9 22 . . .
District of Columbia 1 8 65 . . .
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Total 4 23 99 2 16 120

_Table showing the number of schools for the Colored race and
enrolment in them by institutions without reference to States._

Class of institutions. Schools. Enrolment.
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Public schools [a]14,341 [a]585,942
Normal schools 42 6,171
Institutions for secondary instruction 42 5,297
Universities and colleges 16 1,933
Schools of theology 22 762
Schools of law 3 42
Schools of medicine 4 99
Schools for the deaf and dumb and the blind 2 120
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Total 14,472 700,366

[a] To these should be added 417 schools, having an enrolment of
20,487 in reporting free States, making total number of Colored public
schools 14,758, and total enrolment in them 706,429; this makes the
total number of schools, as far as reported, 14,889, and total number
of the Colored race under instruction in them 720,853. The Colored
public schools of those States in which no separate reports are made,
however, are not included; and the Colored pupils in white schools
cannot be enumerated.

Virginia has done more intelligent and effective educational work than
any other State in the South. The Hon. W. H. Ruffner has no equal in
America as a superintendent of public instruction. He is the Horace
Mann