Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report of the Public Schools: Wheeling, W. Va, for the School Year Ending July 31st 1908

Of the whole enrollment was lost by removal from the city, and about seven per cent. For various other reasons.22 Superintendent's Annual Report Board of Education.

The two items together make a total of sixteen per cent Of the entire enrollment Of the public schools lost from the schools from various causes. The ratio is one in six.

It becomes an interesting speculation as to what number Of people move into or move away from a city. It is generally assumed that the school population of a city is about one. Fourth Of its entire population. In Wheeling the school enroll ment (including the parochial schools) is about 68 per cent. Of the school enumeration, and Of this number 51 per cent are enrolled in the public schools. Assuming that those lost by removal from the city was in the same ratio in the parochial as in the public schools, it would seem that almost four thou sand people left the city within the school year. If course, the movement is not all in one direction. For all those who moved away, perhaps an equal number moved in.

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