Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-08-19

Total number of 599
Total number of irls,------------------ 5SS
Average nun Der of pupils belonging 1859
Highest number Of pupils belongng,---- 1922
Lowest number of pupils belonging 93l
Average daily attendance..-- 946
Total half day attendance 946
Total hardness 1867
Percentage of average attendance to
number belonging ----------------- 80 per ct
Percentage ofaverage attendance to num-
Der enrslled-- so per ct.
Number of pupils withdrawn during term 204
Number of pupils died during term------
Number of pupils attending school
through the $50
Number attending more than and less
than 3 months .-------------- 1874
Number attending more than l and less
than mouths 10
Number atten ding less than month
TABLE II.
The following table shows the quotas of
the several wards.
1st warl--------- $40 5th ward--------- ia
ID ward---- 23l 9Th ward--------- 206
Sd wsrd 137 18th ward------- $50
4th ward-------- l0S Non Residents 81
The registers of the Principals of Union
Schools Nos. l and 2 exhibit the following
items:
TABLE III.-uNIoN SCHOOL NO I.
Number of pupils eproled------- 49S
Number of pupils belonging----------- 457
verage daily attenda 40
Percentage of attendance per ct
Total tardiness - 657
UNION SCHOOL NO II.
Number of pupils nrolled------------- 452
Numbea of pupils belonging AIS
Average daily attendance 3S3
Percentage of endapce--------------90 per Ct
Total hardness 741
The above tables, if compared with those
of the two preceding terms show, first, that
The number of our pupils is rapidly increls
ing. During the fall term of 1867 the num-
Der of pupils enrolled was 1928, while the
number belonging was 1907 During the
winter term of 1868 we had 300 pupils en-
rolled and l,O72 belonging. Now, during the
last term, we had to struggle with measles,
whooping cough and excessive heat, and
still the number of scholars belonging was
1859, only Is pupils less than the proceeding
winter term; while winter terms always show
the largest, and spring terms the smallest at
tendance. The number of pupils enrolled
during spring term Q,187) is indeed much
less than that of the proceeding winter term
(l,300), but this fact proves that the atten-
dance of the pupils grows more and more
steady, that the number of short time pupils
is decreasing, fact of the highest impor
lance for the prosperity of graded school ;
parents and pupils begin to understand
that the profit to be derived from the school
irregular attendance.
If we compare the number of scholars be-
longing to our schools during last term with
that of the spring term Of 1867, amounting
to only 924 pupil, while that season of 1867
was avery healthy one and that of the last
term very unhealthy, we find in one year an
increase of 1876 pupils in the corresponding
terms, a fact which should direct the atten-
ton of your honorable body to the quick ap-
preaching necessity Of providing more room
for the youth of our increasing population.
Hand in hand with this considerable out
ward growth of our schools has proceeded
their intrinsic prosperity and advancement.
The graduation of the schools has been more
thoroughly enforced, the course of study more
fully developed, and, l must acknowledge
here, that our teachers have, during the past
year, with energy and increasing skill, CO.
operated with their Principals in raising the
standard of our programme; and SO much the
more, [ regret the loss of three of our best
female teachers, in whose places to find others
equally faithful and experienced will be no
easy task.
I have endeavored to carry out the rules
and regulations adopted by the Board last
year as strict as possible, and it is my belief
that they have given general satisfaction and
do not require any material changes for the
SCnOOi-yoaT. hoSpeCIIully submitted.
VIM. BIEBER, Supt. Public Schools.
Watertown, August 1st, 1868.
The Board of Education appointed the fol-
lowing teachers for the next school year,
commencing August 3lst, 1858:
UNION SCHOOL NO. I.
Theodore Bernhard, First High School
Grade and Principal.
Miss Henrietta Moule, Second High School
Grade
Miss Louisa Jussen, First Grammar Grade.
Mr.. William Sloan, Second Grammar Grade
Miss Georgia Moule, First intermediate
Grade.
Miss Mary A. Norton, Second Intermediate
Grade.
Miss Mary Marsh, First Primary Grade.
Miss Emma Marsh, Second Primary Grade,
Miss Ella Cushman, Richard Grove School.
Mr.. Conrad DIppel, Sixth Ward School
Mr. Charles Hahn, Seventh Ward School.
UNION SCHOOL NO 2.
Mr.. A. Lebourveau, First Grammar Grade
and Principal.
Miss Marg aret Corbet, Second Grammar
Grade.
Miss Mary E. Mallanney, First Interme-
date Grade
Miss Emily Radtke, Second intermediate
Grade, A.
Miss Lncella Green, Second intermediate
Grade, B.
Miss Susan Nichols, First Primary Grade
Miss Lizzie Mallanney, Second Primary
Grade.
Parents should bear in mind that the sew
eral public schools will be opened on the 8lst
of August, and should send their-chiIdren on
the first day Of opening school, to secure
tleir seats.