The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-01
CITY SCHOOL NOTES.

The number Of educab!e youths in the city
Of New orleans, August 81, 1874, was set
down at G7,212
There were three high schools, ffty-three
grammar schools and twenty primary schools.
There were II schools for boys only, - for
girls only, and AZ for boys and girls-total 7G'
Distributed as follows: In the LIST Municipal
District 10, % -, ID II, 4th IL, 9TH 6, Gta
r. It'll 2.
The whole number of school houses was
n, of which SO belong to the city and Al
were rented ~ the School Board Many OF
these sckoo-houses were painted and repaired
under the direction OF the late Administrator
of Wate.-Worhs and Public Buildings Hon.
Chas. Fi.zen,ie.er, and nearly all are in com
par.tively good condition certainly as good
as the Impoverished city can afford.
Al Tie above date tho number of teachers
employcd was 1872 men and 40 ladies, Of
whom 10 were employed in the High Schools,
332 in the Grammar Schools, and Al in the
Primary Schools
Whole number of enrolled pupils 25,2l5-
average daily attendance II, 1873
The average number of pupils to each
teacher was In the high schools %. in the
grammar schools 46, III the primary schools
IS. The average daily Attendance IN all the
public schools was, in 1871, 9lG7, and the
number steadily increased to II, 1871, which is
about one in four of the children Of school
age, of whom large number attend private
schools. Many others over Is and under 81
years OF ago do not attend school at all.
The COS. of the schools of New Orleans for
The year ending Angus. 81. 1874, was
si79,5 OF which S375,595 was paid to
teachers and employees, S2l, ZAP to porters
and por.rcsscs, $34, 2O3 for rent of school
houses, and sl5Gl3 for sundry expenses.
The salaries paid teachers ranged from $500
70 principals Of grammar schools OF the first
grade down to SGO) for the lowest rank Of
teachers in the primary schools. The wages
Of teachers in 1873 and 1874 were paid chiefly
in school scrip, on which the teachers who
could no. hold them suffered discount
ranging from twenty to sixty per cent
The estimated expenditures for the current |
year amount to $50. 49G, being S3l, G3G for
rent Of school-Louses, $3.50, $50 for salaries of
teachers, S2i, 400 for porters, $4,000 for re-
pairs OF leased buildings, $1,000 for stoves
and fuel $1,000 for secretaries and employees
OF the Sixth District School Board, $1,000 for |
books, and SIS, 900 tor other expenses.
The resources relied upon for meeting |
these expenditures are the two mill State tax |
on the taxable property OF tho State. assessed
al S22i, 23s, SO, which yields Sl4S,477. One
third OF this, less costs of collection and gen.
eral school expenses, gives Sl3l,392. From
the city school tax for 1874. which called for
3327,2S3, there was falling off of about
$l51, 900. A similar falling off will bring the
total school revenue down to about S30S, 900.
The total average cost for each scholar be-
longing to our public schools on IN average
of number in attendance was $23 76, the
average number belonging 20, 1S2, and the
total $: si79 554. The average number Of
pupils to each teacher was ;,S, which, at
$23 IS, would be 5000 Ss. Beyond doubt
economical private schools co1ld afford tuition
and ii! expenses for school buildings at an
average rate much less.