Excerpt from Retardation in the Elementary Schools of Philadelphia: A Thesis
A study of the districts by grades shows that the normal remains approximately at 31 per cent for grades 8, 6, 3, 2 and 1, but falls off in grades 5 and 4, where the retardation is greatest, to per cent and per cent respectively. It rises in grade 7 to per cent. The acceleration bears a more direct relation to the retardation, the grade with a high retardation rate having a low acceleration rate and vice versa. The lowest acceleration is in grades 5 and 4, which have per cent and per cent respectively. The highest acceleration, per cent, is in the first grade, due, of course, to early entrance. The eighth grade has the next highest percentage, per cent. The following table gives the summary by grades for the city.
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