Dover-Foxcroft 1928 - University of Maine

TOWN OF DOVER-FOXCROFT 59
AGE GRADE TABLE
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Totals
Freshmen 2 29 35 17 8 2 0 1 94
Sophomores 11 15 12 8 2 48
Juniors 9 10 14 7 3 43
Seniors 1 7 7 12 1 2 30
Totals 2 29 55 43 41~24 17 2 2 215
% Normal Age % Under Age % Over Age
Freshmen 55.3 32.9 11.7
Sopohomores 56.2 22.9 20.8
--Juniors 48.8 44.1 6.9
Seniors 63.3 26.6 10.0
Average 54.9 31.6 12.3
The age-grade table was computed as of September
4, 1928. The normal ages are those for a system having
eight grades and a sub-primary as is followed in
this town. No distinction has been made for pupils
who attended elementary schools for only eight years
although such pupils would be over age if their ages
were not the lower of the two normal ages.
The purpose of an age-grade table is to show to what
extent pupils are over age or retarded, due to late entrance
or to slow progress in school. Excessive retardation
may indicate that the course of study does
not fit the pupils or that the percentage of failures is
too great. This table indicates that the distribution
of pupils according to ages, is satisfactory and that
the majority of over age pupils drop out at the end of
the second year, which is quite usual. The fact that
the figures are not grouped too closely about the normal
ages indicates that pupils have not been promoted according
to age but rather accO^dihg 1 to achievement,
as is proper.
Survey of Records of Graduates
During the past year a study has been made of the
records of recent graduates in schools of higher learning
to determine whether or not they have been proper-