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Elementary School Enrollments (1911-1941)


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Elementary School Enrollment

Year
Schools (a)
Classes
Teachers
Students
Students per Class
Students per Teacher
Students per 100 Residents (b)
1911
61,557
--
147,485
10,309,949
--
70
16
1921/22
52,763
207,185
195,946
8,894,486
42.9
45.4
14
1926/27
52,825
188,708
186,853
6,661,794
35.3
36.7
11
1931/32
52,961
195,456
190,281
7,590,073
38.8
39.9
12
1938 (c)
51,118
188,310
179,260
7,596,437
40.3
42.4
11
1941 (d)
50,537
183,839
180,501
7,724,137
42
42.8
11


(a) Public elementary schools.

(b) Population of the Reich at the midpoint of the (first) year.

(c) Based on the borders as of December 31, 1931.

(d) Reich territory in 1937 plus the district of Kattowitz. Schools in the Saar region have only been partially documented.



Source of original German table: Sozialgeschichtliches Arbeitsbuch, Volume III, Materialien zur Statistik des Deutschen Reiches 1914-1945, edited by Dietmar Petzina, Werner Abelshauser, and Anselm Faust. Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1978, p. 165.

Translation: Fred Reuss

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