The statistics for 1916 show a total enrollment of 9,864 pupils 
in the high schools; the statistics for 1926 show a total en- 
rollment of 20,142 pupils. 
These figures speak eloquently of the demand of the 
youth of the city for advanced education. Hundreds and 
hundreds of graduates of the high schools enter not only the 
local institutions of higher learning in Pittsburgh, but some 
fifty of the leading colleges and universities of the country 
located in at least twenty different States of the Union. 
As a capsheaf to its public school system, Pittsburgh 
has developed a teachers’ training school, in which it trains 
young women graduating from our public high schools, for 
Schenley High School 
Bigelow Boulevard and Center Avenue 
the calling of teaching. To be qualified to enter this school 
an applicant must be a graduate of a first-class four-year 
high school and at the same time be a resident of the city of 
Pittsburgh—that is to say the Board of Education has found 
it necessary to limit admission to this school to resident 
students. 
About sixty per cent of the new teachers appointed to 
positions in the schools in any given year is recruited from 
the graduates of the Pittsburgh Teachers’ Training School. 
The remaining forty per cent required to meet the demand 
for new teachers is recruited from outside the list of Training 
School graduates in order to avoid too great an in-breeding 
in the schools, and at the same time to meet the needs of the 
system where teachers of riper experience are vitally neces- 
sary to the work. This policy has made it necessary for the