le, based on the figures given in the Report of the
United States Commissioner of Education will show the number of pupils
in the different grades and classes in the schools for the year
1911-1912.[562]

GRADES OF PUPILS IN THE SCHOOLS

--------------+------------+---------------+-------------+-------------
| | CLASSES | CLASSES | CLASSES
| | CORRESPONDING |CORRESPONDING|CORRESPONDING
KIND OF SCHOOL|KINDERGARTEN|TO GRADES 1 TO | TO GRADES 5 | TO HIGH
|DEPARTMENTS |4 IN ELEMENTARY| TO 8 | SCHOOL
| | SCHOOLS | | GRADES
--------------+------------+---------------+-------------+-------------
Institutions | 1,063 | 5,040 | 3,365 | 1,069
Day Schools | 134 | 1,195 | 559 | 38
Denominational| | | |
and Private | | | |
Schools | 63 | 244 | 163 | 16
+------------+---------------+-------------+-------------
Total | 1,260 | 6,479 | 4,087 | 1,123

For 1912 there were reported 133 graduates from the schools: 130 from
institutions, 2 from day schools, and 1 from denominational or private
schools.[563]

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING IN THE SCHOOLS

The industrial training given in the American schools for the deaf forms
a very important feature of the work--in many respects it may be said to
be the most important. In many of the schools industrial instruction was
recognized almost from the very start, and in a number it commenced
practically with the beginning of the work of education.[564] It is now
provided in all the institutions, in nearly all the day schools, and in
over half of the denominational and private schools. Many of the
institutions have large, well-equipped shop and trade departments, with
skilled and capable instructors. Nearly every pupil at a suitable age is
put at some industry, and encouragement and special opportunity are
often given to those who show a particular bent or aptitude. The value
of this industrial preparation of the schools in the after lives of the
deaf has already been referred to.[565]

The following table will show the number and percentage of the pupils in
the several kinds of schools in industrial departments, according to
the Report of the Unite