The Shasta courier., 1858-01-30
SHASTA COURIER,
CONDITION OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
OFFICE SupT. PUBLIC SCHOOLS, I
Shasta Co. Cal, Jan. 80. 1853. 7


Shasta Co. Cal, Jan. 80, 1858. (
EDIroRs COURIER Agreeable to duty i'm
posed upon the undersigned, he has the honor
to submit through the columns of your excellent
paper his annual report for the benefit of the
friends of education in this county.
Shasta county has seven townships viz =
Shasta, French Gulch, Clear Creek, Cottonwood
Pitt River, Sierra and Sugar Loaf. These
townships are divided into five school districts,
to wit: Shasta, Pitt River, Clear Creek, Sierra
and Eagle Creek; and only four districts have
been reported by their respective trustees
The number of children reported by the CEN
sus returns of 1856 and '57 was 1923, and where
schools were maintained $50 children
The number of children reported by the last
census returns is 376 showing an increase
boys and 1871 girls. Where schools have been
maintained there are 2ss children
According to the school marshal's returns for
the year ending October 3lst, 1857, tire are in
Shasta school district l9I children So bows and
63 girls, and of these are orphans Pitt River
district has 65 children, 81 boys and Al girls
and out of these 3 are orphans Clear Greek
district has 60 children; ,s3 boys and 80 girls.
Eagle Creek district has SO children, 10 boys
and 20 girls. Sierra district So children As bows
| and 4s girls, and out of these are orphans
The number of papiis attending school is II
ia Shasta district in Pitt River District 10, and
in Clear Greek District 26. am sorry to report
| that the daily attendance at public schools is
decreasing, not only relatively, but absolutely.
During the last school year Shasta district has
maintained one school ten. months and ttrsl
weeks, at the rate of one hundred dollars pc
mouth, making St,o75-
The number of schools in the county has de-
| creased from three to one; aud only one school
has been kept in Shasta, where one year ago
two schools we're in successful operation.
Amount expended ia the erection, rent and
repairs of school houses and furnishing same
S407 81. Total amount of expenditure for
school purposes in this school district 81 ,4s2 61
OF this sum S764 Sc was paid from the county
treasury, and 1925 from donations obtained from
the following sources, to wit: 1888 so from the
proceeds of benefit given by Mr.. Chase, of the
Fairy Mnstrels, and S7l 80 as the proceeds of
a benefit given by Lee & Co.'s Circus. The re-
mainder of S4Oo O5 was made up by rate bills.
Pitt River district has maintained a public
school three months during the past year, at the
rate of S75 per month, making S225, of which
amount Sl45 was the apportionment due from
thu md 1. 4 occ GOO
in the school boundary and paid teacher.
In this district the number of schools has de-
creased from two to one. school has been
kept at Oak Run three months No school was
kept at Charntown or Buckeve. Amount ey-
pended in this district in erection. rent and re-
pairs of school houses, and furnishing same.
$3.50, and the total amount expended for school
purposes in this district is S575
Clear Creek school district has maintained
school six months, of which time school has
been Kept three months alternately at Texas
Springs and three months at Horsctown, at the
rate of Sl00 per month, making $780, Of this
amount $500 was raised in the school boundary
and paid teacher. The number of schools has
pended in erection, rent and repairs of school
houses and furnishing same is S2s5 90. Total
amount of expenditure for school purposes in
this district, 1885 90.
Eagle Creek district has maintained a school
three months at the rate of SIS per month, ma
king S225. Trustees reported no expenditure
for school purposes in this district
A school was kept at Piety Hill. In Sierra
district no school has yet been reported. BY ref
erence to the last clause of Sc ,tion Il of school
law, it will be seen that at least three months
school must be kept in order to entitle school
district to its pro rata in the apportionment of
the succeeding year.
From this report it will be seen that the num-
Der of schools in this county has decreased du-
ring the past school yea-.
Among the different school districts there
have been twenty-five months and three weeks
schooling maintained, at cost of S2l25 The
apportionment of the State school fund last wear
for Shasta county amounted to 1892 a. Active
efforts have been made by earnest and intelli-
gent friends OF education, who have raised in
addition thereto the amount of $re47 IS and
paid it to teachers.
The total amount of the salaries of teachers
of public schools in Shasta county during the
past year is $3.50. Shasta county can boast
of only four district school houses, and the
amount expended in the erection, rent, repairs
and furnishing Of the same is Sl043 SO. The
total amount Of all expenditures for school pur-
poses in the several districts is 81 So
There is not common school library in
the county, and no money has been expended
for school apparatus. Nothing but primary ru-
diments has been taught in the several school
districts, except in the select school kept in
Shasta by Miss Donna ~ Evans, where a few of