The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28

I School Commissioner Smart:
STATISTICAL.
A synopsis of the report gives the
following statistics:
Number of youth of school age in the
State in September, 1874, 9S6, 947; school
districts in the State, l, ,942; sub districts
in township districts, 10,695; school
! houses in township districts. 10, ,695 /:
school houses in other districts, /, 139 !;
school houses erected within the year,
544; cost of school houses erected with
in the year, 81, ,010, 7S6; estimate value
of school houses, including grounds, S19-
SIC, 504; teachers necessary to supply
the schools. 12,0S7; different teachers
actually employed, ,22, 1872; average num-
ber of weeks schools were in session, % 5;
pupils enrolled in the schools. 7l2, 129;
average number of daily after i-i'ce,
435, 349; school officers, 40,004; - Of
receipts, including balance on hand
September l, 1874, S11, 749, 1906; to-
tai of expenditures, SS, 10, $50. 9S; bal
aDce on hand September 1, 1875, S.
57S, 40O7S.
ENUMERATION OF YOUTH,
Whole number of white youth of
school age in 1875, 955, 12S; whole num-
ber in 1874, 963, CAS-
Whole number of colored youth of
school age in 1895, 22, 59S; whole num-
ber in 1874, q, 399; increase, 1919.
Whole number of youth of school age
in 1875, 1,017, 726; whole numberin 1874,
9S5, 5,Oi7; increase, 81, 779.
The whole number of unmarried
youth between 16 and 81 years of age in
the State in September, 1875 as shown
by the enumeration returns, is 26O, 5SS,
% go per cent of the entire enumera-
ton. This leaves 757, 13S youth in the
State between and 16 years of age.
SCHOOL PROPERTY.
The value of school property, number
of sceools now in the State, number
erected daring the year are very inter
es;ing facts:
Whole number school houses erected,
544 in 1873, SO in 1874; decrease, 81.
Whole cost of houses erected in 1875,
81, ,010, 7S6; whole cost of houses erected
in 1874, S,174, 104; decrease, S153, 31S.
Number of school houses in the State
in township districts in 1875, 10,695; in
city, etc, districts, 1, 139; total, II ,S34.
Value of township school houses, S.
037, AS; value of city, ETC., school
houses, S1l, S39, 05S; total, S19, ,S76, 504.
Whole number of schooI-rooms in the
State, 14,S6S.
Total number OF school officers, 40,-
DOL.
ENROLMENT.
The whole number of pupils in public
primary schools in the State was, in
1874, 6Si, 5l1; 1875, 6SS, 747.
The whole number of pupils enrolled
in high schools, throughout Ohio, was,
in 1874, only %, 299. and in 1875, "a, ,212.
Thus, while the cost of maintaining
these establishments increase, the num-
Der of pupils in them diminish.
The primary schools are the true
peoples colleges" They ale the rock
upon which the system is built; they
are, in fact, the system itself.
The entire number of pupils of all
grades enrolled in 1874 was 707. 943; in
1875, 721, 1913; increased, 4,1S6.
EDUCATION OF CoLoRED YOUTH.
The provision COR colored youth in the
country districts is not equal to that for
the white, as the average number weeks
the former continued was only %, while
the latter is %. On this point Mr..
Smart says. ''lf there be but one col
ored child of school age living in any
school district of Ohio, it is entitled to
this SIX months of school prov ision."
COST OF EDUCATION.
The figures show that the cost of edu-
cation in the country schools during 1874
was So, 159, 923.3O, and in 1875 it rose to
s., 63}:I, 96S 81, an increase of S473, 045. 25.
In city, etc, schools the cost in 1874
was S3, 900, 9G4 IS, and rose in 1875 to
the enormous sum of g, S97, 063 81, an
increase of 1887, 159. 33. Thus, while the
number of pupils enrolled in these city,
etc schools has increased but little
more than 1 per cent, the cost of edu-
eating them has increased more than %
rer cent.
Taking tie whole State together, the
average cost per capita of pupils enroll
ed has risen in one year from SS.57 to
Sl057 and the average cost per cap
ita of daily attendance from SI4.15 to
Sl7 %.
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
Under this head the Commissioner
sapS:
The school is a department OF the
home, or a branch of the family, and the
public school is under the control of So
ciety or the State, inasmuch as society
and the State supports and fosters it. If
the public schools be as nearly secu-
larized as possible, they will not be god
less in the sense the charge is sometimes
made. The discipline received in the
schools, inculcating habits of order and
regularity, continuity of effort, obedi-
ence to recognized authority, perserver-
ance, promptness, &C., is something
certainly of a basis upon which religious
character may be built.
Besides the development of these hab-
its. the school as nearly seeularized as
possible, may develop and strengthen
and fix the characteristics of truthful
ness. self reliance, honor, industry,
patience, &C., and they thus 60 far
toward laying the sure foundation
upon which the church can safely build
The public schools should not be re-
quired to do the work that belongs pecu
liarly to the Church.
Ii seems quite an imposibility in this
age for public school to be without
moral influence. II there should exist in
any coInmunity.a a school which exerts
10 moral influence, and in which no
moral instruction is given, such school
is an injury TO the community, and to
all communities, since the power of in
hueuce reaches ont without limit IT,