The daily gazette., 1880-07-27


1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1889
| No. OF Houses. IT l8 Is Is lS IS
| No. OF sittings. 1882 1890 1854 564S 5GO8 5704
SCHOOLS.
Combined high and grammar schools
for boys. l; combined high and grammar
schools for girls, |; grammar schools for
boys, 2; grammar schools for girls, q;
primary schools in all OF which the sexes
are taught together, 10.
TEACHERS.
Whole number of teachers In the day
| schools, l13; increase, /,
Male teachers in the high and grammar
| schools l.
Female teachers In the high and gram.
mar schools, 2S Increase |.
Female teachers In the primary schools
81 Increase
Teachers receiving 1900 per year, /;
| 1000, /; 500, o; 1866, 2; $3.50, ~; $5i5, q,
$500 Il $500, 8; $i25, 10; $3.50, IA; $500 '37;
$500, s. Teachers without salary, pupils
| In training school), 4.
| PUPILS.
Whole number enrolled during the year
| in the day schools, 963, decrease l6l.
Average number belonging to the day
| schools, ~, increase IL.
Average daily attendance, 1882; de-
| crease 40.
| Whole number enrol ed in high and
grammar schools, ,334; decrease, 83.
Average number belonging to the high
and grammar schools, 9iS; decrease "a.
| Average daily attendance In the high
| and grammar schools, SG6; decrease 10.
| Whole number enrolled In the primary
| schools, s ,l20; decrease IS.
Average number belonging to the pri-
| mary rchools, 1884 increase ).
Average daily attendance in primary
| schools, 1861; decrease, "a.
Per cent of attendance In all the schools
| on the average number belonging, sos.
Per cent of attendance In the high and
grammar schools on the average number
belonging, 9l.3.
Per cent OF attendance In the primary
| schools on the average number belonging
| 8&4.
Per cent OF attendance In all the schools
| of the whole number enrolled. 63.8.
Per cent of attendance In the high and
grammar schools OF the whole number
Per cent of attendance In the primary
| schools OF the whole number enrolled,
| 83.3.
IRREGULARITY OF ATTENDANCE.
The aggregate number of pupils en-
rolled in the year was 6,963, and the
average attendance 4, 4,427. The aver
age absence was therefore 1850, or 80
per cent of the number enrolled. The
largest number belonging at one time
(October) was 5,097, or 871 more than
the average attendance. Buildings,
seats, teachers and books-all the fa-
cilities for teaching 8, ,099 pupils-were
ready all the year. but the attendance
of pupils fell 80 short of this number
the first month, 800 the second, 538
the third, $50 the fourth, 789 the fifth,
SIT the sixth. 568 the seventh, 769 the
eighth, S67 the ninth, and 974 the
tenth. When provision has been made
for teaching 5000 pupils,i it costs about
the same to maintain the schools when
800 pupils are out of school, as when
the 5000 are all in school.
The applicants for seats ranged
from 440 on the Gath of October, to
1856 on the 4th of June. If the vacant
rooms in Nos. II, 12 and IA had been
within reach of the applicants, all o.
them could have been provided witt
seats. A much larger demand for seati
occurs the first part of the year thai
the latter part.
, In the schools for white children thu
Withdrawals the latter part of the yea
are the most numerous and unfortu
nate in the Boys High School ant
{ Grammar Schools. Some of the schools
had large lists of applicants from whicl
to fill their seats as they vacant. Thu
! the number belonging at School No.
,, fell only from $40 to 278 between Feb
}. 10 and the end of the year, but during
that time 103 pupils were admitted t,
places as they became vacant. Th
number belonging: at School No. l.
/ fell during the same time from 235 t.
o 1853, there being but few applicants.
some cases Ga large number in tn
aggregated the vacancies made by tn
withdrawal of pupils were not fille'
!. till the end of the half year, becaus
none Of the applicants suited the grad
:, in which the vacancies existed.
J Few but teachers realize how muc
!, the progress of classes is retarded
u this frequent withdrawing of pupils tht
u have learned the ways of the school an
G receiving of new pupils into their place
l. Many of the pupils that were withdraw
d last year will return to school again ne,
d year. In estimating the rate of advance
3 ment of pupils the time OF their absent
Is from school ought to be remembers
e. 1t is sometimes very unjustly said TIL
I'd pupils are on an average six years in &c
70 ting through the primary schools. II
,d pupil should enter school at six yea
al of age and complete its course at thi
an teen, having in the meantime been o
ce of school three years, it would not
as fair to say that he was more than TO
m. years in completing the course. L
pl pills enrolled each year in our prima
schools, as shown by the records of sc
mi