Cuba's free schools counted by their own advocates: 285 schools, 82 for girls, and 127 girls of colour in the whole island

The Havana Economic Society's own journal printed a campaign for free primary schools that counted what the campaign had not achieved. Of some 150,000 children of school age on the island, 17,459 were being taught; 285 free or public schools existed, 82 of them for girls; and the girls enrolled in the whole island were 5,294 white and 127 of colour. The figures are the institution's own, published in its own organ, against its own record.