a.  Average attendance of white children in public
schools in 1855 43,858

Average attendance of white children in
corporate schools supported by public
funds 2,826

          
                                                                                                ------ 46,684

b.  Proportion of average attendance of white children
in public schools to whole number of same
is as 1 to 3.40.

3.  From these facts it appears that colored children attend
the public schools (and schools supported by public funds in
the city of New York) in the proportion of 1 to 2.60, and that
the white children attend similar schools in said city in the
proportion of 1 to 3.40; that is to say, nearly 25 per cent. more of
colored children than of white children attend the public schools,
and schools supported by public funds in the city of New York.

  4.  The number of colored children attending private schools
    in the city of New York, 125.

a.  The number of white children attending private schools in 1850, census gave 10,560, which number has since been increased by the establishment of Catholic parochial schools, estimated in 1856, 17,560.

    b.  The proportion of colored children attending private
    schools to white children attending same, is as 1 to 140.

c.  But the average attendance of colored children in all schools is about the same as that of the white in proportion, that is to say, as many colored children attend the public schools as do whites attend both public and private schools, in proportion to the whole number of each class of children.

  Locality, capability, etc., of colored schools.

  1.  The Board of Education, since its organization, has
    expended in sites and buildings for white schools $1,600,000.

    b.  The Board of Education has expended for sites and
    buildings for colored schools (addition to building leased
    19 Thomas), $1,000.

    c.  The two schoolhouses in possession of the Board
    now used for colored children were assigned to same by
    the Old Public School Society.

  2.  The proportion of colored children to white children
    attending public schools is as 1 to 40.

    a.  The sum expended on school buildings and sites of
    colored and white schools by the Board of Education is as
    1 to 1,600.

  3. a.  Schoolhouse No. 1, for colored children, is an old
    building, erected in 1820 by the New York Manumission Society
    as a school for colored children, in Mulberry street, in a poor
    but decent locality.  It has two departments, one male and one
    female; it consists of two stories only, and has two small