Intermediate Elementary Schools. 
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aumber of schools with special higher classes beyond the aim of the 
elementary schools; these classes are called ,selecta“. Among the 
South German States, Baden (in the so-called advanced divisions) 
and Hesse (in the expanded Elementary Schools of some towns) 
bossess kindred establishments. 
According to the statistical enquiry of December the 1st 1899, 
in the Kingdom of Saxony, the number of intermediate Elementary 
Schools was 241, with 4859 classes, and 188 366 pupils, and that of the 
higher Elementary schools 45, with 616 classes, and 17 460 pupils. 
In the year 1900, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, the advanced 
divisions (the statistics do not show in how many schools), with 2598 
hovs and 3864 girls, were taught by 140 male and 66 female teachers. 
In the Grand Duchy of Hesse there were in the spring of 1902, 
m four towns, 6 expanded Elementary schools, with 88 classes and 
3695 pupils (1784 boys and 1911 girls), who received instruction from 
72 male and 18 female teachers. 
[n Prussia schools of this kind already existed of old in the most 
various forms and under the most various denominations. Their 
curriculum was usually distinguished only by the fact that instruction 
in a foreign language was imparted, mostly Latin in the boys’ 
schools, French in the girls’ schools. Often the distinction consisted 
merely in the different amounts of school-fees. All these schools re- 
ceived, in October 1872, a uniform organisation, with the following 
curriculum. 
Number of weekly Hours 
Subjects of Instruction 
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Arithmetic . . . . . 
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Natural Science . . . 
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Geography . . 
History . . . 
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