The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-07-16
HMOND TUESDAY MORNING, JULY IS, l8t

COLoRED SCHOOLS IN RICHMoND-IETE
RESTING STATIsTICs.-These schools hay.
ing closed for the season we are enabled tc
give some particulars of the work which
has been done among this portion of the
people Of Virginia, presenting some fact!
which will no doubt interest our readers
A few months since we published the whole
number of colored scholars under educa
ton in the State, giving the number fol
each county and city, and the whole ex
pense of their tuition. This table showed
that there were 207 schools, 266 teachers
and 1927 scholars in Virginia, and that
the whole amount paid for rent of houses
salaries of teachers, and other incidental
expenses, was $4,000 per month. Below
we give detailed statement Of each sepa-
rate school in this city, number of teach.
ers, number Of scholars, and by whom
supported. It will be seen that there are
IS teachers, and about 5000 scholars in
Richmond.
The city is divided into four districts.
The first embraces that portion of the
city lying west of Third street, including
Oregon Hill and Sidney.
There are two schools in this district
one at Dill's bakery, with seven teachers,
which has taught an average OF 1876
scholars, 262 Of whom we're male, and 234
female. These scholars have been taught,
as were most of the others, reading,
writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography,
and the history of the United States. This
school was supported by an association in
Boston.
The other school Of this district was To-
Gated at Ebenezer church, and employed
three teachers, who taught 2O8 scholars
/ SS males and l2O females. Its expenses
were paid by the Home Missionary Society
of New York.
District No. 2 includes that portion Of the
city lying east of Third to Tenth street,
and also has two schools. The first is on
Navy Hill, and has 48l scholars, 2G9 of
whom are males and 2l2 females. Six
teachers are employed, and are supported
| by New York Association for the
Benefit of Freedmen" The school at ST..
Philips church, also in this district, has
$50 male and female scholars under the
supervision Of four teachers. The Pro-
testant Episcopal Church of New York
sustain this school.
District No. extends eastwardly from
Tenth to Twenty third streets, and run
ming out into the northern suburbs along
the line of the Mechanicsville turnpike.
The school at the First African church, in
this district, numbers $40 scholars, $50 of
whom are males and 100 females. There
are here TWO principal teachers, with FIVE
assistants. There is also high school in
this district, near the corner Of Leigh and
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scholars of both sexes, taught by two
teachers and one assistant. The schools
in this district are sustained by the Baptist
Home Mission Society of New York.
District No. embraces all that portion
of the city and its suburbs lying east of
Twenty third street, and the schools car
ried on in it are sustained by the Society
Of Friends in New York.
There are three large schools in this dis
trict; one at old Wesley chapel, Union Hill +;
one at Chimborazo, and the other in Rock
etts, with an average of about $50 scholars.
Rev. Scott Gwathmey, local preacher at
Chimborazo, has normal high school in
that village, at which colored scholars are
| fitted for teachers. a colored man has
also pay school at Rockets, and we
should judge from the number Of his
scholars is doing very well. There is one
school in Manchester which has forty five
regular scholars and one teacher.
The whole aggregate expenses Of these
various schools is s2,Il6 per month.
The statistics given above do not repre-
sent the regular but the average attendance
of scholars. Many of them are very re-
miss in their attendance, staying away
upon the slightest preteXt. 1t is evident
that they do not as yet realize the impor-
tance Of education.
Colored teachers are starting pay schools
of their own in several localities, charging
from one to two dollars per month tuition
fees. Several Of them obtained quite a
large number of scholars during the past
year. There were about 300 colored chill
dren taught in this way during the past
scholastic year. The average attendance
in all the colored schools in this city du-
ring the year was little over 5000.