diff --git a/wp-includes/option.php b/wp-includes/option.php
index 866cbcc480..3e29c578f0 100644
--- a/wp-includes/option.php
+++ b/wp-includes/option.php
@@ -1781,7 +1781,7 @@ function register_initial_settings() {
 
 	register_setting( 'general', 'start_of_week', array(
 		'show_in_rest' => true,
-		'type'         => 'number',
+		'type'         => 'integer',
 		'description'  => __( 'A day number of the week that the week should start on.' ),
 	) );
 
@@ -1803,7 +1803,7 @@ function register_initial_settings() {
 
 	register_setting( 'writing', 'default_category', array(
 		'show_in_rest' => true,
-		'type'         => 'number',
+		'type'         => 'integer',
 		'description'  => __( 'Default category.' ),
 	) );
 
@@ -1815,7 +1815,7 @@ function register_initial_settings() {
 
 	register_setting( 'reading', 'posts_per_page', array(
 		'show_in_rest' => true,
-		'type'         => 'number',
+		'type'         => 'integer',
 		'description'  => __( 'Blog pages show at most.' ),
 		'default'      => 10,
 	) );
diff --git a/wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-settings-controller.php b/wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-settings-controller.php
index 0f1ead65f2..5d16fb396e 100644
--- a/wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-settings-controller.php
+++ b/wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-settings-controller.php
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ class WP_REST_Settings_Controller extends WP_REST_Controller {
 		switch ( $schema['type'] ) {
 			case 'string':
 				return (string) $value;
+			case 'integer':
+				return (int) $value;
 			case 'number':
 				return (float) $value;
 			case 'boolean':
@@ -258,7 +260,7 @@ class WP_REST_Settings_Controller extends WP_REST_Controller {
 			 * Whitelist the supported types for settings, as we don't want invalid types
 			 * to be updated with arbitrary values that we can't do decent sanitizing for.
 			 */
-			if ( ! in_array( $rest_args['schema']['type'], array( 'number', 'string', 'boolean' ), true ) ) {
+			if ( ! in_array( $rest_args['schema']['type'], array( 'number', 'integer', 'string', 'boolean' ), true ) ) {
 				continue;
 			}
 
diff --git a/wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-meta-fields.php b/wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-meta-fields.php
index a85424e467..2c765caeaa 100644
--- a/wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-meta-fields.php
+++ b/wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-meta-fields.php
@@ -404,6 +404,9 @@ abstract class WP_REST_Meta_Fields {
 			case 'string':
 				$value = (string) $value;
 				break;
+			case 'integer':
+				$value = (int) $value;
+				break;
 			case 'number':
 				$value = (float) $value;
 				break;
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 3e43ade385..7f3f9e0175 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '4.7-beta1-39057';
+$wp_version = '4.7-beta1-39058';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.