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Show The Status of Education In Utah, 1947 113 school (Utah was second only to Washington, 64.0% as com pared with 68.1 %); (4) youth enrolled in college (Utah was second only to Oregon, 24.0 % as compared with 26.3 % ); and, (5) youth graduated from college (Utah lead the nation with 12.6 %, the next highest state being New Hampshire with 11.88%). These achievements are then contrasted to reasonable goals in education. For example, it is believed that about 97.5 % of all children can complete the eighth grade; 95% can be enrolled in high school; 70% are able to graduate from high school; 27.5 % of the youth from eighteen to twenty-one years of age can be enrolled in college; and 13 % can be graduated from col lege. The accomplishments of the various states in terms of these goals are revealed in Figure 1. Utah clearly heads the ilst. 2. The ability of the states to support education was taken the income per child of school age. Utah's poor rank is due to a combination of two factors: (1) the percentage of the pop ulation that is of public school age, five to seventeen inclusive, and (2) the total income of the state. There are only seven states in the union with a higher proportion of children in their populations than Utah (South Carolina, North Carolina, New Mexico, Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, and Arkansas). Utah's productive rate is 134, safely above the 100 necessary to maintain a stable population. Utah was not one of the eighteen states failing to produce enough children to maintain their pop ulations. Utah's relative financial ability is revealed in Figure 2. as 3. Utah stands at the top of the list in the degree in which the educational accomplishment is commensurate with ability. For example, Delaware ranks fifth in ability and thirty-fourth in accomplishment; whereas, Utah ranks thirty-second in ability and first in accomplishment. Its accomplishment is 31.5 % above the national accomplishment. 4. Closely akin to the above criterion is the relative effort of the states to support education. This was simply calculated as the percentage of the state income devoted to education in the forty-eight states whether public or private, from the elementary schools through universities. Utah, with 5.53 per cent of the in come spent on education was outranked only by three states (South Dakota, 6.40%, New Mexico, 5.90%; and North Da kota, 5.53 % ) . 5. In efficiency Utah outranked all other states. Efficiency, used in this study, referred to the relationship between educa tional accomplishment on the one hand and the amount expended per child for schools on the 'Other. Actually Utah's efficiency was 24 per cent higher than the national efficiency. as |
