School in 1900

Tempe Arizona Normal School
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. USA
https://lccn.loc.gov/2007661425

• Most schools were one-room schoolhouses in rural areas
• Students were usually between five to twenty five years old
• The most common methods of teaching were memorization and repetition
• Very few students advanced beyond grade school
• Only 11% enrolled in high school
• Most Americans at the end of 1910 had only completed grade eight

- paraphrased from Encyclopeida.com