ment, and expenditures for transportation cost less per pupil than rural
schools having one or two teachers chiefly because the classes were
larger. Transportation was provided at public expense for 13,386
pupils at a cost of $373,170.

Nearly three-fourths of the white schools, 45 per cent of the white
elementary, and two-thirds of the colored schools in the counties re-
ported that they had parent-teacher associations organized in 1927.

The index number for judging educational efficiency based on five
items which evaluate attendance and five which indicate public interest
as proved by financial support of schools, continues to show improve-
ment for Maryland. For 1927 it registers 79.1 points in the entire
State and 68.0 in the twenty-three counties, including both white and.
colored schools. In 1918 the index number for Maryland was 43.2
points. The goal is 100. For 1914 Maryland ranked twenty-sixth
among the States in index number.

Maryland probably can never expect to rank first among the States
in its educational index number, because half of the items included in
computing it are based on the financial resources of the State. Accord-
ing to a bulletin recently issued by the National Education Associa-
tion, Maryland ranks nineteenth among the States in index of eco-
nomic resources per child. According to the 1924 report of the United
States Bureau of Education, Maryland ranks thirty-second among the
States in the amount spent in maintaining a pupil in school for one
year. In financial items, Maryland can never hope to stand far above
its rank in wealth, but in school administration, supervision, instruc-
tion, and interest of patrons in the schools, Maryland should rank
among the first States in the Union.

1927 INDEX NUMBERS OF INDIVIDUAL COUNTIES
FOR ALL WHITE AND COLORED SCHOOLS

ALL SCHOOLS WHITE SCHOOLS COLORED SCHOOLS

County Index County Index County Index
Number Number Number

County Average... *68.0, 65.2 County Average....*73.2, 69.8 County Average...*41.8, 41.9
Baltimore ..................*86.0 Baltimore ................*88.3 Allegany ...........*70.2
Allegany ....................*78.2 Montgomery ............. *83.8 Washington .............. *68.3
Montgomery ..............*75.6 Allegany ....—.............*77.9 Baltimore ..........*56.9
Washington ............. -*69.4 Calvert ......................*76.8 Cecil .................*48.9
Howard ................*67.9 Howard -................*76.0 Carroll ..............*47.6
Carroll ........................*67.4 Talbot ........................*73.6 Frederick ....................*46.3
Cecil .................... ..*66.6 Anne Arundel............*73.6 Kent ........................ *44.5
Harford ....................*65.9 Queen Anne's........*73.6 Wicomico ..................*42.6
Prince George's ......*65.5 Prince George's........*73.1 Somerset ............——..*41.7
Frederick .................*65.3 Caroline .............*71.9 Talbot ........................*41.5
Queen Anne's ..........*64.9 Worcester .................. *70.8 Anne Arundel............*40.0
Caroline .......*64.7 Harford ...................*70.2 Caroline ................*39.9
Anne Arundel............*64.7 Kent ...........................*70.0 Queen Anne's.......*39.2
Talbot .......................*64.2 Washington ..............*69.4 Prince George's........*39.0
Garrett .....................*64.1 Cecil .....................*68.7 Dorchester ................*38.9
Kent ...........................*61.8 Carroll ........................*68.4 Charles ................. *37.5
Wicomico ..................*61.6 Dorchester ................*67.7 Harford ......................*36.6
Worcester ..............*60.1 Somarsot ... .... . *67.6 WoroBafaii. ........ "85.7
Dorchester ................*69.8 Wicomico ..................*67.4 Montgomery ............*32.3
Calvert ......................*68.0 Frederick ..................*67.4 Howard ......................*31.1
Somerset ....................*67.7 Charles ......................*66.1 Calvert ..................*28.6
Charles ......................*64.6 Garrett ......................*64.1 St. Mary's.............. *27.4
St. Mary's ..................*46.8 St. Mary's................*54.2

Baltimore City.....*98.0, 98.7 Baltimore City...*100.7, 102.9 Baltimore City..*85.1,78.7
State Average.....*80.4, 79.1 State Average..84.3, 83.2 State Average....*60.0, 57.3

* In calculating the index numbers an average of capital outlay expenditures
for a period of four years was used, instead of expenditures for the year 1927 only.