"The specific purposes of this pupil-personnel study were as follows: 1. To determine the age-grade status of pupils in the Austin Public Schools. The aim was to determine the numbers and percentages of pupils who were underage, normalage, and overage for the grades in which they were in membership during the time the study was made. 2. To determine the grade-progress status of pupils in the Austin Public Schools. This meant to find out how many pupils were progressing through the grades at a retarded rate, how many were making normal progress, and how many were progressing at an accelerated, or a faster than normal, rate. 3. To determine the "incidence of retardation" status of pupils in the Austin Public Schools. The idea here was to discover the number of pupils who were retarded --that is, the number who had failed one or more grades during their school careers --the grades that proved to be the biggest stumbling blocks for pupils, and other pertinent data concerning failures. 4. To determine the extent to which the Austin public schools were affected by mobility. More specifically, the purpose was to reveal the number of pupils who had transferred-in and transferred-out of the schools during the year under study. Both inter- and intra-city transferring were considered. 5. To determine the extent to which pupils dropped out of school during the year under study. In other words, the aim was to make a study of each pupil who had, for one reason or other, dropped out of school. Additional purposes were to determine the time of the school year during which dropping out was most pronounced, the grades that were most affected, and the reasons that pupils gave for dropping out. 6. To determine how much Austin teachers actually knew about their pupils. The aim here was to determine, from teachers' own statements, just how much they had learned about their individual pupils through holding conferences with them and with their families, through examining and studying the records of their pupils, and through assembling additional information concerning the family circumstances of their pupils. 7. An additional purpose of this study was to determine how much information of the type needed for a pupil-personnel survey was obtainable from the records that were kept in the Austin schools"--Leaves 2-4