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SHAW UNIVERSITY, RALEIGH, N. C.
One of the leading schools for colored people. Founded in 1865 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society. It has 30 teachers, 250 students and property valued at nearly $400,000.

The American Baptist Home Mission Society.—The American Baptist Home Mission Society owns or supervises 24 educational institutions. All of these are large and important schools. These schools are effectively managed, and their general average of educational efficiency is very high. The following table shows the distribution of these schools by States:

AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY.

States	Number of Schools	Counted Attendance	Teachers			Income for Current Expenses	Value of Property
States	Number of Schools	Counted Attendance	Total	White	Negr.	Income for Current Expenses	Value of Property
Total	24	5,536	419	139	280	$304,861	$3,870,744
Alabama	1	268	21	1	20	9,479	83,000
Arkansas	1	313	18		18	15,109	90,000
Florida	1	404	18		18	8,070	80,158
Georgia	5	1,287	106	50	56	81,573	621,624
Kentucky	1	130	15	1	14	11,308	60,000
Louisiana	2	572	26	10	16	16,356	462,000
Mississippi	1	310	16		16	1,591	100,000
Missouri	1	66	11		11	4,486	20,000
North Carolina	3	419	46	14	32	41,051	433,251
South Carolina	1	507	30	18	12	21,384	635,744
Tennessee	2	242	31		31	9,942	117,500
Texas	1	371	22	12	10	19,247	314,935
Virginia	3	537	36	21	15	37,684	630,354
West Virginia	1	110	23	12	11	17,581	222,178

The annual income for current expense of the 24 schools is $304,861, of which $150,637 is received from the board. On the basis of income five of the schools have incomes between $1,500 and $5,000; ten between $5,000 and $15,000; six between $15,000 and $30,000; and twenty have incomes of over $30,000. The total property is valued at $3,870,744, of which about three and a third millions are in plant and almost half a million is in endowment. According to property, only one school has a valuation under $10,000; three schools have valuations between $10,000 and $25,000; four between $25,000 and $50,000; seven between $50,000 and $150,000; three between $150,000 and $250,000, and six over $250,000.

The attendance of these schools was 5,504, of whom 3,186 were elementary, 2,068 secondary, and 250 collegiate. All the schools maintain elementary classes, and all but two have secondary pupils. Seven of the institutions are offering instruction in college subjects. Two of the seven, however, had neither the equipment nor teachers to maintain college work. The number of teachers is 419, of whom 139 are white and 280, or 66 per cent. are colored; 148 are men and 271, or 65 per cent., are women; and 295, or 70 per cent., are academic teachers.

BENEDICT COLLEGE, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.
One of the leading colleges for colored people in the South. It was founded in 1871, by the American Baptist Home Mission Society. It has 30 teachers, over 700 pupils, an endowment of $140,000.00, and property valued at $635,744.