Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
EDUCATION.
Interesting Statistics on Educa-
tional Matters.
Kinds of Schools Education Of Women
Schools of Science and Medicine
Grants for Educational Purposes.

Grants for Educational Purposes.
The following facts are CLEANED from the
report of the United States Commissioner
of Education for 1880. and which came
from the Government press in Novem-
Der, 1882:
SCHOOL POPULATION.
The total school population in the States
for 1880 is Is. 35l. SIS; number enrolled In
public schools. $3.50 403; average daily
attendance, 5.744, lSS, four States not re-
porting. The school population of the Ter
ritories is lS4 405, Idaho and Wyoming not
reportirg; enrolment in public schools
l0l, us average daily attendance, 81, l54,
two Territories not reporting. The per
centages OF enrolment and average daily
attendance are highest in Massachusetts,
and lowest in Louisiana.
INCOME AND EXPENDITURES.
The total annual school income reported
by all the States and Territories is SS3..
$40, 239 annual expenditure, $50, O32, o3S !;
of this sum IS, 933, ia was expended for
sites, buildings, apparatus, etc; S924, Isl
for pay of Superintendents, and $50, los, 2S9
for pay of teachers. The estimated value
of sites, buildings and all other school prop.
erty is $50. 069. 427, seven States and
three Territories not reporting. The ex-
penditure per capita Of the school popula-
tion varies from 96 cents In Alabama to
Sl4 81 in Massachusetts,, the expenditure
per capita of enrolment from 81 II in
North Carolina to ST. so in Colorado.
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
Number of normal schools 800, having
l 1866 instructors and 43 OF pupils. These
are classified as public and private normal
schools. The number of the former is LOG,
of which s4 are supported by State appro-
priations, by county appropriations, and
81 by city appropriations. The public
normal schools, although numbering s less
than the private, have upwards of 5000
more pupils and $40 more instructors.
SCHOOLS OF THEOLOGY.
They number l42 and have 633 instruct
ors, 5 242 students, l5S endowed professor
ships, 725 l43 volumes in the libraries,
Sc 22l SOY in grounds and buildings, and
| IS. 537, $50 of productive funds, which
yield an income of S576, S97. Twenty-one
of the schools are Roman Catholic, q Bsp-
! list, l6 Presbyterian, l6 Lutheran, Is
Protestant Episcopal, Is Methodist Epis-
copal, IL Congregational, and the remain
ing 30 are divided among IA denominations.
| BUSINESS CoLLEGEs-LAw SCHOOLS.
| Commercial and business colleges, 162,
| an increase of Is over the same for 1879 /;
| they had GIG instructors and p, l46 stu
| dents.
The schools of law reporting number As,
and have 229 instructors, 8 l34 students,
| SIP volumes in their libraries, grounds
and buildings valued at sos, 600, productive
funds amounting to Sl65, 457 and yielding
revenue of SIC 092, and an income of
Sl52, 1893 from tuition fees.
TEACHERS AND SALARIES
| The total number Of teachers employed
| in the public schools of the States in 1880
was $50, O34; the same for the Territories,
2,6IO. The average salaries paid to men
ranged from S25 "a a month in South Car
DINA to SlOl II in Nevada, and the same
for women from $l7 A in Vermont to ST
in Nevada.
LAND GRANTS.
The lands in the States and reserved in
the Territories for educational purposes by
Acts of Congress from 1855 to June 80,
| 1880, were, for public or common schools,
every sixteenth section of public land in
the States admitted prior to lS4S and
every sixteenth and thirty sixth section OF
such land in States and Territories since
Observation-Disclosures at 81, S93 9l9 acres
| for seminaries or universities, the quantity
| of two townships, or 46, $50 acres in each
| State or Territory containing public land,
and in some instances greater quantity,
| for the support of seminaries or schools of
a higher grade, estimated at l, los, $40
acres for agricultural and mechanical COL
leges, the grant to all the States for agri-
cultural and mechanical colleges by Act of
July 2, 1862, and it's supplements of 80. 600
acres, for each Representative and Senator
| in Congress- to which the State was en-.
titled, Of land Sin place where the State
contained a sufficient quantity of public
land subject to sale at ordinary private en-
try at the rate Of 81 % per acre, and of
scrip representing an equal number of acres
where the State did not contain such de-
scription of land, the scrip to be sold by
the State aud located by its assignees on
any such land in other States and Terri
tories, subject to certain restrictions. Land
in place, 1,770. 900 acres; land scrip, 7, $50,
900 acres total, 9. 600, 900 acres. In all,
1869 439 acres for educational purposes
under the heads above set out, to June 80,
| 1880.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.
In every section of the country public
interest in education has become more than
usually active during the present year.
City aud country papers have given place
in their columns to the subject, and the
discussions in periodicals have been
characterized by stricter regard to facts
than heretofore. In the Pacific Coast
States the agitation has repeated the
phases through which it had previously
passed in the Eastern States. The point:
of attack have been ~ high schools, r.
the extended curriculum, 81 the literary
character of the schools, and AZ their ex'
pense. Without doubt the final settle.
ment of these questions will correspond
with that farther east. High schools will
be strengthened, courses of study will be
modified simply as thoroughness requires
the demand for industrial training met
without undue encroachment upon mental
training, aud the question of expense
treated in spirit of wise liberality.
GENERALIZATION
From the statistical summary generalized
without reference to States it appears that
the total school population is, for SS States,
1881, SIS; for S Territories, 1S4, 405 the
number enrolled in the public schools is,
for So States, 8, $50, 403 /; for 10 Terrific
ries, l0l, us; the number in daily attend
snce is, for "a States, 5.744, 1SS; for
Territories, 81, l54 the number of pupil;
reported in private schools is, for 81 States,
SCI 209 for Territories, 6 Cpl /; the total
number of teachers is, for So States, 2S0,
034 !; for 10 Territories, 2.6l0; the mum.
Der of male teachers is, for 80 States,
lis, O64 for s Territories, 94S; the num-
Der of female teachers is, for 80 States,
l56, 35l for s Territories, l, BOG the total
public school income is, for 3S States,
So, 6S4, 4s9; for 10 Territories, 81, 255,.
$50; the total public school expenditure is,
for as States S7S SIG 800. for 10 Terrific.