WASHINGTON, April 23, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S.
Census Bureau:
FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL
Profile America — Sunday, April
23rd. America's first — and oldest — school is celebrating
its 381st birthday today. The Boston Latin School started in
1635 with a handful of students meeting in the headmaster's home.
Stressing a classical education and the development of independent
thought, the school has long been considered one of the top public
secondary schools in the nation. Its list of graduates includes
John Hancock, George Santayana, and Leonard Bernstein. Ben
Franklin is one of its famous dropouts. Today, there are
over 77 million children and adults enrolled in school throughout
the country — from nursery school to college. They comprise 25.3
percent of the entire population age 3 and older. Of those
students, 16.5 million are in high school. You can find more facts
about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at
<www.census.gov>.
Sources:
School history/accessed 1/26/2017:
www.bls.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=206116&type=d
Ben Franklin and alumni/accessed
1/26/2017:
www.bls.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=203830&type=d&pREC_ID=404406
U.S. school enrollment/table 1 All Races:
www.census.gov/hhes/school/data/cps/2015/tables.html
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and
Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn
from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or
narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census
Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments,
ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau