Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-27
Report OF the State Commissioner Of
Common Schools.

Common Schools.
We are under obligations 10 W. D.
Henkle, State Commissioner of Common
Schools, for his Annual Report embrac-
ing the school year ending August S1st
1869, from which we CLEAN the following
statistical reports pertaining to the
schools of Trumbull County.
Amount of school money received
during the year. s74,O52 SIS. Amount
paid to teachers, SH,053 2S. For sites.
buildings and repairs, SI1,O63 43. Fuel
and other expenses, 1898 81. To joint
sub-district schools, sl,6SS 81. Grand
total of Expenditures, S64.O43 90. Number
Of unmarried youth between the ages of
Ave and twenty-one years: male, white
6,5S2, colored, A; females, white, 6,333,
colored, %; total 1884. Number of
schools Dol; graded 10; ungraded, ISs;
high, 3. Number of pupils enrolled
in the schools within the year, IO,34s.
Rates of local tax in townships, for 1868
%, 2.9S mills; I~s69-7O, 3.27 mills /; in
separate districts. SIS mills; 5.36 mills,
number of teachers employed in the
schools within the year, 1914. Number
Of teachers necessary to supply the
schools, 81. Average monthly wages
If teachers in sub-district, males 1854;
females sI9,s4; suH-district, ungraded,
males, $40. females SI4; graded, males
s9S,O5, females 1915; high schools,
males 500; females, $50. Number of
applications for certificates, males, I73:
females, 31s. Number granted, males
I29; females 229; rejected, IA.
The number of school houses erected
within the year is seven; cost $5.035.
Whole number of school houses, COG.
Total value of schoolhouses and grounds,
SI29,9 S5,O0. Amount received for the
Teachers Institute Fund, from examina-
ton fees, S24l,OO.
BY reporting to Mr.. w. D. Henkle
each of the following officers will receive
a copy of the State School Report, Au-
ditor, County Treasurer, Probate Judge,
Prosecuting Attorney, the three County
school Examiners. the Treasurer and
Clerk of each township, the Clerk of
each local Board of Directors in the
several Townships, the Superintendents
of the graded Schools, the President,
Clerk, and Treasurer of the School
Boards other than Township Boards, the
Chief officer or instructor of any College,
Academy, &c, in the county.
We append, in part, the responses Of
the County Auditor to interrogations as
to the condition of the schools, &c:
l. Condition of school houses, etc."
The school houses, generally speaking,
are good. They are improving, gradu-
lily, both as 10 Style, comfort n con-
v%enience, and there appears to be a dis
position to replace the old buildings with
those of a more durable and convenient
character.
2. Condition of school libraries.
In a few of the townships the libraries
ire reported as in good condition, and
nut very few where the books are used
60 any extent. In some toiVns they are
boxed up and not used; in some thew
ire scattered and torn, very little used
Dr cared for,
8. Condition and progress of schools"
So far as / have the means of knowing,
he schools are gradually but slowly
improving, There is some feeling mani
tested toward the county examiners for
lot granting q larger number of certif-
,ates, making it difficult in some cases
20 procure teachers in time TO hold the
-equisite number of months Of school
n a year.
4. (" Character OF school returns"
There is much for improve
ment.
Some clerks are led astrsy by the note
m the treasgrer's report, which says
hey are not to report the money unless
It is actually received by him before the
Irst day of September, when nay orders
or school mODsys were all dated August
9th, and the treasurer notified. Itseems
70 me proper that the two instaIlments
Tor the correct year should be reported.