Education. In the public school system there are 8,363 schools, of which 4,985 are for whites and 3,378 are for negroes. The total number of teachers is 14,382, of which 10,013 are white and 4,369 colored. The number of normal trained teachers is 5,548, of which 4,424 are white and 1,124 colored. The total number of children of school age is 795,484, of which the whites number 429,011 and the colored 366,473. The total enrolment is 625, 854, the whites being 385,167 and the colored 240,687. The above figures are for 1915, dur ing which year the attendance was 422,838, of which 273,388 were white and 149,450 colored. The per cent of attendance was 70.9 for white and 62 for colored. The amount of money given by the State for the support of the public schools in 1915 was $2,700,000, and the amount raised by local taxation was $2,387,729, a total of $5,087,729. The total number enrolled in State colleges was 5,073; in denominational and private colleges, 4,588. In negro institu tions, 1,544. The private schools below college grade would add to the above enrolment some 5,000 more.
Schools of Higher Learning. In addition to Georgia's excellent public school system, she has many colleges, also schools where special industrial work is done. A list of the schools of higher learning is as follows! Georgia Nor mal and Industrial College, for girls, and Georgia Military College (Milledgeville); Au burn College, Christian (Auburn) ; Mercer University, Baptist, including the Mercer Law Schools and the Mercer School of Pharmacy; Wesleyan College, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the oldest chartered institution for females in the world; Saint Stanislaus, Catholic; Mount de Sales, Catholic; Georgia School for the Blind, White Department (Macon) ; First District Agricultural School (Statesboro); Fourth District Agricultural School (Carrolton); Chatham Academy, an en. dowment school from the early colonial days (Savannah); Rhinehart College, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, co-ed. (Waleska); University of Georgia, with Academic. Law School of Pharmacy; State Normal School, co-ed; Georgia State College of Agriculture; Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens); Seventh Dis trict Agricultural School (Powder Springs); Eleventh District Agricultural School (Doug las) ; Agnes Scott College, Presbyterian; Donald Frazier Institute (Decatur, DeKalb County) Emory University, Methodist Epis copal Church, South (Decatur, Atlanta); Shorter College, Baptist (Rome); Georgia In stitute for the Deaf, White Department (Cave Springs); Atlanta Medical College (Emory University, Methodist Episcopal Church, South) ; Emory Theological Department; Marist Col lege for Boys, Catholic; Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery; Atlanta Dental College; Southern Dental College; Atlanta Col lege of Pharmacy; Atlanta Law School; At lanta Theological Seminary, Congregational; Georgia School of Technology (Atlanta, Ful ton County); Emory University, Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Oglethorpe UniVer sity, Presbyterian (Atlanta, DeKalb County); Cox College for girls, Baptist; Georvia Mili tary Academy (College Park); Ninth District Agricultural School (Clarkesville); Piedmont College (Dernorest) ; Brenau College, Female; Riverside Military Academy (Gainesville) ; Tenth District Agricultural College (Granite Hill, near Sparta); Warthen College (Wrights ville) South Georgia Normal College (Valdosta); North Georgia Agricultural Col lege (Dahlonega); Bessie Tift College, Bap tist (Forsythe) ; Brewton-Parker Institute, Baptist (Mt. Vernon-Ailey); Eighth District
Agricultural College (Madison); North High land Industrial School (Columbus) ; Emory College, Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Oxford) ; Gordon Institute, for boys and girls; Sixth District Agricultural School (Barnes ville); Andrew Female College, Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Cuthbert) Academy of Richmond County, one of the Colonial en dowed schools; Georgia Medical College, a branch of the State University (Augusta) ; Third District Agricultural School (Ameri cas); South Georgia College, Methodist Epis copal Church, South (McRae-Helena); Second District Agricultural School (Tifton); Young Harris College, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for boys and girls (Young Harris) ; Hiawassee College, Baptist, for boys and girls (Hiawassee); LaGrange Female College, Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Southern Female College, Baptist . (LaGrange); Fifth District Agricultural School (Monroe).
Institutions for Negroes. Atlanta Uni versity, Clarke University, Morehouse College, Morns Brown College, Spelman Seminary (At lanta); Payne College, Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Augusta); Georgia School for the Deaf, Colored Department (Cave Springs); George School for the Blind, Colored Depart ment (Macon); Georgia State Industrial Col. lege (Savannah).
Benevolent Institutions. There are in Georgia a number of noted benevolent institu tions. Some of the more important are given below : Hebrew Orphan Home; Old Ladies' Home; Florence Crittenden Home; Confed erate Soldiers Home (Atlanta); Augusta Or phan Home (Augusta); Orphan Home of the North Georgia Conference (Decatur); Bap tist Orphan Home (Hapeville) ; Orphan Home of South Georgia Conference; Appleton Home for Girls; Episcopal Home for Old Ladies; Georgia Industrial Home; Masonic Home (Macon); Georgia State Sanitarium (Milledge ville) Bethesda Orphan Home, founded in 1739 by George Whitfield; Abram's Home for Widows; Saint Francis Orphan Home, Catholic; Savannah Female Orphan Asylum; Episcopal Orphan Home; Saint Mary's Or phan Home (Savannah).