Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-20
EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS.
Annual Report OF the Commissioner
OF Educatfon

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notwithstanding the disasters which hav,
fallen upon the Industries OF the country, h,
states that on the whole the past year wa.
one of substantial progress in educationa
matters.
In Alabama the Board Of Education has Ia
bored under great embarrassment, from thC
difficulty Of securing from an impoverished
people the needful funds for the support o
free schools.
Arkansas has labored under similar embar
rassment with respect to funds.
Louisiana has struggled through the year
under kindred financial troubles with the two
neighboring States just named
The new State Superintendent Of Instruc.
tion in Florida reports an increase Of fifty.six
schools in 1873, making, with 1l3 added in
lSi2, an addition OF 1863 to the 331 previously
existent.
Georgia, after a cessation OF public. school
teaching for a year Except In certain towns)
has again set her schools IN operation, and an
earnest Superintendent is doing obviously his
best to make the new effort q success.
South Carolina shows an increase of 9S free
schools and l41 lew school-houses over 1872
with an additiOla school l-attendance of 7,421,
and an additional expenditure of Sl13,9Sl.3
for public schools.
North Carolina has increased by about "a
per cent. her receipts for free schools and by
about 100 per cent the attendance of them.
Kentucky has friends of education who
have pressed forward amending her School
law, advancing the qualifications of her teach
ers, improving her school houses and taking
steps toward general education Of her
colored population
In VirgiHia, though there has been slight
falling off in receipts and expenditures for
school purposes, as well as in enrolment and
average attendance, there are sol new schools,
while great number OF school-houses were
built during the year.
The returns from Tennessee are imperfect.
but enough appears to indicate that the or
ganization of the State system has gone
steadily forward under the direction of the
Superintendent.
Maryland has heightened her school year
sixteen days; expended for teachers salaries
SlA00O more than in 1872; for school-houses
$1,000 more, and for general school purposes
s9LOSS more at the same time adding ~, 1913
TO her school enrolment and making fair
beginnings in an effort TO give her cOlored
children equal advantages for education with
the whites.
Delaware still remains without any State
supervision of schools, but in her two lower
counties some improvement is observable.
Pennsylvania shows an increase of twenty
two school districts, of BOG schools, of 300
graded schools, of ri teachers, and of six
days in the average duration of her school
term, with an aggregate of school property
estimated at $21, $50, ,209, and total expendi-
ture for school purposes of $S,S12, $685.
New Jersey reports eighty-three new school
dition OF the older ones; an increase of three
days in the average school term; liberal ad.
vance in teachers salaries; S14, "A beyond
1872 for building and repairing schools;
S2S3O0S13 beyond for general school pur-
poses, and S5SS040 beyond the estimated
value of school property.
New York reports receipt of $11 ,556,
O3ISO for public-school purposes, and an eX-
penditure of $10,41G,5SS for the same, with
total expenditure of S116,652, ,930.57 in twelve
NTnnT 1f
ture nearly S7000,000 have gone for the sala-
ries of teachers; nearly $4,000 ,0O0for building
and improving school-houses; S174 339 % for
supporting eight normal schools, and ST.
69O.94 for supply of school instruction to the
few Indians in the State.
Connecticut publishes a decade-table show
ing that, though the number of children
enumerated has increased only 81 ,257 in ten
years, the increase Of interest in public schools
has been such as to raise the amount secured
for them from all sources to 81, ,442, ,669.0l in
lS13against 1890, 1920 in 1861
Rhode Island shows that in 1868 her towns
raised nearly 100000 for the support of
schools, and that in 1878 the same towns
raised over 100000 for the same purpose.
The increase Of schools in the same time was
201; of teachers, 9S.
The returns from Massachusetts for the
school year 1SIl-'12 show S5,4I6, 92765 raised
by taxation for public schools alone. The es-
timated value of school-houses in the State
was over S20,O00000 at the close of 1878,
against sl3,770,069 at the beginning of 1870:
1I6 high schools and fty-eight incorporated
academies are returned.
Maine shows a smaller number enrolled in
schools, but decidedly better average attend
ance.
New Hampshire presents 222 new or newly.
repaired school-houses, A new schools, 81 ad-
ditional graded schools, but diminished aver
age attendance.
Vermont rpDortinO hiennioIIv molAs No
statement as to public schools for 1873.
Ohio having changed the legal school age
from 5-2l to 6-2l exhibits, probably from this
cause, an apparent falling off in school popu-
htion of Sl,566. She raised in 1878, for
school purposes, s1,7O5,6O3, against S7,42O,-
33S in 1872.
Michigan raised for school purposes, in
1873, S3939,52S, against 50, ,563,479 in lS72
The condition Of the public schools is report
ed to have much improved under county
supervision.
Indiana, without giving full statistics for
1873, claims net increase of school revenue
amounting to Sl65,5Sl over 1872, with 465 new
school-houses, built at a cost of $S72, 300. The
permanent school fund has been augmented
and more than the usual amount raised by
taxation.
Illinois shows a school population larger by
-, l33 than in 1872, smaller enrolment in
schools, but an average attendance about the
same. Her school revenue, S9,259, Al, has
been Sl,759,5l9 beyond that of the preceding
year.
Wisconsin, for comparatively new State.
without the aid of large and wealthy cities
has raised for school purposes S3,62S, ,O27, |
and expended for repairs of school-houses |
1907 1874.
Minnesota, out of 196,O75 children scattered
over her great surface, shows the fair propor |
tion Of l24, ,5S3 enrolled in her free schools, |
with about 3,35S more in pay schools. Dur
ing the past year DDS new school houses have
been erected, at cost of S203,311.
Iowa reports $4,5l9,6SS raised to instruct a
school population numbering 49l ,644, of whom
~ ,5I2 are enrolled in public schools, and H.
l35 in private ones. The sum of 81, ,l69, ,95i !
has been expended in this State i'm the cree |
tion of new schOol-houses and supply of
libraries and apparatus.
In Missouri the enrolment in public schools |
is $50, $50 out of 673 493 children of school age
and the amount raised for the support of |
schools is Sl790,3l4.
Kansas has l2l 500 in her schools, out Ola |
school population reaching only 1874, ,957, ana |
has devoted to the education of this number |
) |, ,Sd3,Uls, with S5l5O7l for school buildings |
and repairs, the increase of school houses |
15O27.
Nebraska, with n school population of g. !
los, has on her school rolls 1892, and has |
raised for school purposes sos, $50.
Nevada returns 5,615 children of school age, |
''N' 80 ''NA 1S'SiiNJ -oAN oNllpblo O,ftc.
Educational activity in Oregon has been |
very greatly stimulated during this the first |
year OF the service Of the State Superintend. |
cnt, The establishment Of graded-school sys.
TENS IN the towns has not advanced as rapidly |
Is could be desired.
California justihcs the general sense Of her
Importance by reporting school population
li 1850 and a school enrolment of 1O7, SOB,
ler school revenue reaching S2,5 100, or
about $3.50 for each enrolled child Clear
evidence of popular favor toward her public
schools comes in the fact that within eight
years l5,2q children have been transferred
rom private schools to them.
For the first time reports, more or less COM
olete, have been received from all the Terri
ories. The exhibition is encouraging, evinc.
ng desire for educational advantages and
'horts to secure them even where present
circumstances are unfavOrable
Excluding Alaska, the Territories give an
aggregate of 69,63S children in the schools,
md of SSSS, ,S26 for the instruction of them.
The District of Columbia stands first among