The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-19

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HE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF RICuMOND.-Th
fifth annual report Of the School Board ant
the Superintendent Of Public Schools o
Richmond for the past year has been print
ed. The following is statement of tn
disbursements aud receipts for support o.
schools for the past year:
Disbursements For taking school cen
sus, SS5I.72; teachers and principals sala
rcs, S51 sol IA janitors' salaries, 81, ,152 so
secretary and supervisors salary, $1,29I.G7
rent of school.houSes, S2,437.54; fuel, s.,
69S.5G repairs and supplies, 81, ,407. is; text
hooks, maps, charts, &C., SS03.60 :, printing
S64G.93; medals and diplomas, S27590; in
cidental expenses. .S4542 "a; insurance, ,S642 80
stationery, S04.62 advertising, S5S.29-to
tai, $50, 5,SG639. Disbursed on account o.
real estate, construction, school apparatus,
and furniture. SIS, ,760.47. Total disburse
meuts, SS4,126.S6.
Receipts: Drafts on Planters Bank, Sc,
3Gl.41; drafts Oh S. c. Greenhow, City Trea
surer, S54l.0l; drafts on chairman Finance
Committee, S272.79; State appointments
1928, S1G,5l2.90; interest on bonds aud
deposits, S2s1.l5; net proceed sales of 81, ,0O(
tlchmond bonds, 6'S, $3.50; net proceed
sales of $1,000 Virginia State bonds, 81,
O2l.2o; received through DR.. Sears, agent
George Peabody school fund, donation
S2,oO0; received for tuition and sundrics
S21I5; 253 drafts on City Auditor, $54,643.3O
Total, SS4, sc.
The comparative cost per scholar for tut
ton for the sessions named Below was
1SI0-T1, total enrolment, 1875; $500:
average enrolment, 3,l5G; $9S3; average
daily attendance, 2,752; S11.23. 1s71-'72
total enrolment, 4,6G3; SS.S4; average en-
rolment, 3,G91; SILT average daily attend
ance, 3,254; S12.63. 1S72-'73, total enrol
mcnt, 1924; S9.S3; average enrolment
1919; SI3.13; average daily attendance
350S; Sl+66.
The comparative total cost per pupil at
tending the public schools in the principa
cities in the United States (baSed upon ave
rage number enrolIed) for the session O
1873 is as follows: Boston, s33.57; Cincin
natl, S23.9l Washington city, $3.50: New
York. $23.2I; Chicago, $50 81 /; st. Louis
$22.67; Dayton, Ohio, S2l.37; Richmond
Va, Sl6.70.
The estimated total expenditures for the
scholastic year 1S73-'14, ending August 1st
are SG9,400.
The following is a comparative statement
for sessions 1S70-Tl, 1S71-'12. and 1S72-'73
of number of schools, teachers, average
number belonging, and average number at.
tendance of each school, and number O
grammar schools:
"In 1ST0-'71, number OF schools. rs
number of teachers, rs ; average number tc
each school, 43; average number attending
each school, 80; number of grammar schools
10.
"In 1S71-'72, number Of schools, 81
number of teachers, 50 Gncuding German
teachers and principal>); average numbel
belonging to each school, 44 ; average mum
Der attending each school. 3S; number o
II m 1S7517s,, 'nnuttnber OF schools, 05 mum
Der of teachers, JOG Qncudng high schoo)
average number belonging to each school
Al; average number attending each school
81; number of grammar schools, 30, ant
the high school,
The entire expenditure of the City Scho o
Board for the purchase of real estate, build
ing school.hou>eS, betterments OF schoo
furniture and apparatus, from August
| 1870, TO August l, 1878, was Sl5S,3lS.il.
The entire value OF real and personal pro
perty in possession Of the City Schoo
Board, belonging to the city of Richmond
OH the 1st day Of August, 1878, was 'SloS,
4195I.
The total value of school property on Ii
of August, 1870, was $4,000; 1871, SG9
955.14 1872, S144,343 - 1873, S1SS.419.5'
The main points of the very interest'n
report of Mr.. james II. Binford, superb
tendent Of schools Of the city, were put
lished in the Dispatch on the 1st of Januar