The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-10-23
WRAIGN'S FREE LANCE.
Colored Schools OF OhlO-LOcal Lac0nfcl
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Colored Schools OF OhiO-LOcal LacOnfcs
Personal Paragraphs.
COLUMBUS, o., OCT. 20, 1880.-We thought
it would be Of interest to many readers, if
we should give some information regarding
the colored schools of Ohio, so we have
danced" the subject "freely" for the bene-
fit of the Leader Colored schools we're
first organized in Ohio under State law,
in accordance with the provisions of an act
of the Legislature, passed March IA, 1853.
The schools passed through many viscissi-
tudes which we shall not detail at this time
Until to-day, the schools of Ohio are doing
good work, to say the least. We shall base
our statistical information upon the figures
compiled in 1879 In Ohio there are 23S
colored teachers, "a, 525 colored children of
school age. There are enrolled in the schools
about 9,44l, or SO per cent of all Of white
children of school age, ~ per cent are in
school. These figures speak for themselves.
There are 2,873 children in country schools
and 6,568 in city schools The average an
uuai duration of country schools is II weeks;
annual duration of city schools is S6 weeks.
Number of colored pupils in academic
studies, $780, Among the places in which
mixed schools are in vogue, are the follow
ing: Cleaveland, Oberlin, Toledo, Delaware,
Sandusky. The following cities and towns
have unmixed High Schools: Colum bus,
Dayton, Chillicohte, Portsmouth, .Circleville,
Springfield and some smaller places Gin
cinnati has a colored High School, under
the principalship of that veteran pedagogue,
Prof. Peter H. Clark. This school has Civ
TO the world many worthy men and wo-
men.
In Columbus, there are 525 colored chill
dren of school age, of which 430 or 80 per
cent are in school. In Cincinnati, out OF
$500 children of school age, 1898 OF
so per cent are in school; in Springfield, out
of 834, 364 or A per cent are in school; in
Xenia, out of 968, 578 or 60 per cent are in
school; in Dayton, out of 200, l46 or 70 per
cent are in school; i'll Chillicohte, out of 739
307 or so per cent are in school; in Pome.
roy out of $50, 333 or SO per cent are in
school. From these statistics some ides
may be obtained of the interest taken in
popular education by the colored people Of
Ohio.
| 1t is curious to note some facts regarding
the population of Columbus. The common
ratio is about of population to every voter
There are in Columbus about 700 voters
This gives times 700 or $500 of colored
population. 1t is commonly agreed that 3!
| of the population shall equal one child O.
school age. This gives 81 times 525 o.
about 1887 of colored population. $500
and 1887 is to great variance. A grea
error exists somewhere About one third o
the colored people are church people, ant
figuring on this basis, and allowing the
membership of our three churches to b
1000, would give population of 5000. II
1873, in Columbus, the enumeration showet
484 children of school age, in 1880, 523, ar
increase of but II per cent. The gain o
white children here in the seven years j
about 30 per cent. These figures are worth.
of study.
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