The daily gazette., 1879-02-18
FOURTH EDITION
FFea Schools.

State Superintendent Grsres' Third An
nudi Report Of the Work Of Teach
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Special correspondence OF the Gazette.
DOVER, February II, 1879.
The third annual report Of tho Super
intendent of Delaware Frae Schools,
which was read before both Houses OF
the Legislature in the early part OF the
session and ordered to be pri ted, has
made its appearance ia pamphlet form.
People generally will regard 1t as dry and
| uninteresting, but 1t coutains much that
| educational men aud philanthrophists
will be pleased with. The report Is for
| the year commencing April LIST, 1877 and
| ending April list, 1878. 1t seems little
queer to find a work dated "1SI9, rs this
| Is, and then turn over few leaves and
| ind such n sentence as this 1.-THE an
nual meeting of I ct eachers Is called for
Dover for the present yea" The annu-
| al Teachers Institute, which is the meet
ing referred to was held away last fall.
The whole number of schools in the
State mot including Wilmington for
1877, was 404, which shows an increase
of "a over 1875. The average number of
months taught for 1877 was 5-lO, or an
Increase of $40 months over 1873.
In the matter of attendance 1t is shown
that quite an increase has occurred be-
tween 1875 and n The whole number
of white pupils attending the schools fer
the former year was 2l ,581, and for the
latter year 23,S30-an increase OF 2,243
just here it may be well to state that the
total number of children in the State be-
tween the ages of and q years, ac-
cordipg to a close estimate, is 81 $40. BY
thi> IT Is seen that there are S,0l9 children
he w.en these ages who do not attend
school
There has been quite decrease in the
expenses. The cost for 1877, per pupil
not including the cost of books, was
S7.72; for 1875 1t wa, sS63. The decrease
Is 81 cents.
The decrease in expenses has been
| nearly in proportion to the r. duction In
the number of teachers, which is 2S
there being 430 teachers employed III
1875 and 402 for 1877.
The amount expended in teachers sala-
| ries for 1877 is Sl25, ,S5S.3S for 1875 the
amount was STA 027 .48, which makes an
increase in salaries Of sll $1,000. The
average monthly salary of male teacher rs
is $50, au1 of female teachers $3.50. The
total value of school property is SiS4, !,
360.75.
Only about one-half of the teachers
comply with this requirements of the
law in relation to teachers certificates
an effort TO repeal which will be made
during this session of the General AS
sembly. The number of certificates
| countersigned by the County Treasurers
for the year ending November 25, 1873
Is given below:
| New Castle County. y.................. 4:
| Kent County. ...................... &c
Sussex County. ...................... &C
Total. .................. ...... 20s
There are 402 teachers In the State. and
according to this 1874 do not comply with
| the law.
| Statistics in relation to the colored
schools, taken from the report of II. c.
Conrad, Esq Actuary, are TO be found
In the appendix. BY this it is to be seen
that the total number of colored schools
10 the State during the year ending April
81, 1873, was AZ and the highest number
OF pupil. enrolled was s2,2l6, OF an in
crease over the preceding year Of 755.