The pages preceding this point have given evidence that the failing pupils are not mainly the ones who drop out early.  But we may still ask whether the number of failures per individual tends to determine how early he will be eliminated?  This question calls for the facts of the next table.  In this table the semesters of dropping out are indicated at the top.  The failures range as high as 25 per pupil, and it is evident that not all pupils have left school until the eleventh semester.  The distribution includes the 1156 boys and the 1292 girls who failed and did not graduate; also the 694 boys and the 1063 girls who dropped out without failing.  The wide distribution of these non-graduates both relative to the number of failures and to the time of dropping out, is forcibly brought to our attention by the table which follows.

TABLE IX

DISTRIBUTION OF THE NON-GRADUATES, ACCORDING TO THE TOTAL FAILURES
EACH AND THE TIME OF DROPPING OUT

NO.  OF               SEMESTER OF DROPPING OUT
FAILURES     1    2    3    4    5    6    7   8   9  10  11   TOTAL

0 B. 430 134 40 41 15 24 7 3 0 .. .. 694
G. 643 163 89 78 27 45 12 5 1 .. .. 1063
1757
1 B. 35 53 25 33 14 9 1 1 .. .. .. 171
G. 46 65 25 34 12 12 4 3 .. .. .. 201
372
2 B. 52 58 18 30 8 17 5 6 .. .. .. 194
G. 49 79 31 36 12 17 3 3 .. .. .. 230
424
3 B. 43 41 22 28 9 10 5 1 0 .. .. 159
G. 54 52 19 34 18 17 0 6 1 .. .. 201
360
4 B. 27 31 13 32 7 11 9 2 .. .. .. 132
G. 34 43 23 29 11 16 5 8 .. .. .. 169
301
5 B. 3 13 14 30 11 16 11 4 .. .. .. 102
G. 2 14 18 24 5 13 3 5 .. .. .. 84
186
6 B. .. 27 8 24 11 16 11 6 0 0 .. 103
G. .. 17 14 25 10 11 3 9 2 1 .. 92
195
7 B. .. 8 7 7 6 16 5 3 0 1 .. 53
G. .. 9 3 15 8 7 5 5 0 0 .. 52
105
8 B. .. 8 3 14 6 11 6 5 1 0 .. 54
G. .. 10 5 15 7 10 6 6 1 1 .. 61
115
9 B. .. 1 1 7 5 8 2 7 3 1 .. 35
G. .. 0 2 7 8 9 2 4 1 0 .. 33
68
10 B. .. 2 2 10 2 7 6 10 0 .. .. 39
G. .. 2 1 6 5 9 4 4 0 .. .. 31
70
11-15 B. .. .. 1 8 7 27 14 22 5 2 0 86
G. .. .. 1 5 12 22 20 23 9 6 2 100
186
16-20 B. .. .. .. 1 0 8 3 6 3 3 0 24
G. .. .. .. 0 2 3 3 12 6 2 2 30
54
21-25 B. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 1 1 .. 4
G. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 3 3 1 .. 8
12
TOTAL B. 590 376 154 263 101 180 85 78 13 8 0 1850
G. 828 454 231 308 137 191 71 96 24 11 4 2355
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