Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-08

lts tnlrty-ilEst annual report. IL is quite an
interesting document TO those interested in
be Public Schools, and contains quite
large quantity of valuable information from
which we make the following extracts
STATISTICS OF THE SCHOOLS.
!. The School census, taken in September
1859, makes O return of 66,960 youths, be-
tween the ages of FIVE and twenty-one years;
CA, 94e white, and 2,0l2 colored. OF these,
34,S6l were returned as being between six
and sixteen years of age; 25, 1872 whites as
attending school-l5,932 in the Public
Schools, 8,l96 in Parochial or Church
Schools, and 1,674 in Private Schools; and
1851 as not going to school, of whom l,ll2
were colored children.
The rolls of the Public Schools exhibit
the fact that in all the schools, Of every grade
and class, during the year, there have been
20,692 pupils enrolled, of whom the average
number belonging to the schools, from time
to time during the year, was 1884. Of this
average number belonging to the schools,
the average of actual daily attendance was
1885, and of daily absentees the average
number was l,297 of these absentees, the
very large proportion of 277 Tout of 949
pupils belonging), was in the Night Schools,
showing that only 1920 Of the 12,993 pupils
belonging this year to all the other schools
were daily absent, being an average of little
more than seven per cent. This degree of
regularity has rarely been attained any
where in large system of schools, and is
creditable to our people.
The average number of teachers en-
ployed was 81, of whom ninety were males
| and 22T females.
In the High Schools, 364 pupils were en-
rolled, and 327 was the average number be-
longing through the year. OF this number
| BIG were in actual attendance daily in school,
| being $50 boys and 136 girls. Twelve
teachers were employed in the two High
| Schools at aggregated salaries amounting to
| $l2,839 44. The total cost of these schools
I for the year was $14,933 23 being SAL OF for
each pupil enrolled, or $45 66 for each of the
| average number throughout the year.
In the intermediate Schools l,l79 pupils
| were ENROLLED. The average number be-
| longing during the year was 926, of whom
| the average number in actual attendance
was 873 being 497 boys and 316 girls. The
number of teachers in this department was
| twenty-four, of whom fourteen were males
and ten females. Their salaries amounted to
| $l5,559 81.
| In the District Schools, including the
Orphan Asylum and Industrial Schools,
| 1895 pupils were enrolled, of whom the
average number belonging for the year was
1857, or, in actual daily attendance, l0,Tl1
In conducting these schools 25S teachers on
an average were employed, of whom 205
were females and fifty-four males. The ag-
gregate salaries of these teachers amounted
to $lll,53 %, or SO 56 per pupil for tuition
| merely of the average number so belonging.
In the night schools, l,426 pupils, 1,247
males and l79 females were enrolled, and
648 was the average who belonged to them
during their term Of four months.
The result is, that in all these schools an
average of 1884 pupils has been in
structed the entire year, at an expense Of
$ls9,66o 65, or $l3 10 for each of the pupils
belonging.
THE SCHOOL LIBRARY.
| The present contents of the Library mum.
her 22,648 Volumes besides the books of the
Ohio Historical Society, over 5000 volumes
A catalogue has just been published, and
shows that the library embraces an exten.
sive range in every department of literature
science, art and law. In connection with il
is a gallery of paintings and statuary, Sc
lected with rare Judgment, and worthy ofany
capital.
But the most remarkable evidence of it
utility is in the fact that, although there ha
been no catalogue till recently, and but on
book is given out at a time, the circulation
during the past year was nearly 5000 vol
umes monthly. Nearly that number ofread
ers are now registered on the roll. So com
plete are the regulations and safeguards tina
Notwithstanding this wide use of the books
the Librarian reports that no book of valu
has been lost in circulation, and but yer,
few remained out at the annual closing.
THE STATE OF THE SCHOOLS.
The Superintendent in his report find
abundant reason for regarding the schools a
gaining ground by steady and healthfu
progress in the general scholarship and con
duct of the youth who attend them. Il
, this view he is confirmed by the report O
the Committee on Examinations.
The Board avails itself of the authority o
the same Committee to state, also, that alonl
with this steady and satisfactory improve
ment of the Public Schools in the process O
intellectual and moral education, there ar
| equally satisfactory results manifest in re
spect to the health and physical development
Of the pupils. There is unquestionably grea
danger that the pupils, as well as teachers
in their ardor for pushing forward, forge
the unerring laws of health, which shoul
regulate such exertions.
There are many who suppose this subjec
is generally or wholly dfsregarded in ou
! schools, and that the studies and discipliu
are such as necessarily tend to undermin
the health and vigor of the pupils. 1t wishe
to put the most authoritative contradiction
upon such statements AS matter of fact
it is only necessary to go into the Publ
Schools to see that the pupils are generall
healthful and vigorous and they may be sal
| literally TO be the only children IN the cit
who have any Fairgrounds or outdoor rt
creations. Such is the criminal defcienc
: of Cincinnati in parks or public grounds.
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE BOARD.
The following shows the receipts and dil
bursements of the School Board during ii
year;
Ed Expenditures (tuition l5y eco
Invested In real 4il73
Total 1884
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PUPILS.
Lots for new schoOl-houses have been PR
cured in the Western and Northern Distric
3 of the city, but the School Board has bee
I hindered from building on them by the in
possibility of raising money upon city bont
G at par, as required by the conditions of Il
ordinance of May l3, 1859. Thus far Il
4 bonds authorized by that ordinance hal
5 been used only in direct payment Nr grount
and buildings.
: Efforts are being made to obtain lot
a the central part of the city for larger ar
d more commodious house in place OF thu
n which is occupied by the Ninth Distri
School. When this shall be accomplishe
= and new buildings erected upon this an
J the lots recently purchased, we shall hav
e provided for little more than the demar
now actually made upon us for school-room
n Detached rooms, at a distance from Il
l. Principals supervision, and in inconvenieI
| ulaces, which we are at present cOmpellI