The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-09

enumeration. of.......... 1877
| Which is per capita, Oh At
! tendance, of...---...-......-- lOt
IL mHst be borne In mind that i've large.
wealthy and pepulons counties make no
report of expenditures ION account of
township organizationl. while they do re-
port school population and receipts. The
five doubtless expended Sl50,000 for
schools.
school houses owned. .......... s,272
Increase over 1880. %
Schools in operation (white)
1921, (cOlored) 5Ol-total $50
Increase (white) la, colored)
9-totai increase. .. lSl
Teachers wages paid. ,2226 500 d
Increase over lSS0....-....--. Ss,972 %
Number Of teachers en-
plOyed ......-.. ....-....- lO,6OI
Decrease since l8S0......-....- 1,052
Average salaries paid teachers
per year ......... X3g VI
1t is impossible TO tell the average mum
Der of mopths schools have been taught,
owing to the defective reports made to the
SUPERINTENDENT Office; but assuming that
average to be five months, and think it
will not exceed FIVE, the average monthly
salary of teachers would be $41 %.
The estimated value Of school property
in the State, exclusive of the University,
four Normal schools and the schools for
blind and deaf and dumb is 1881 ,695 OS.
An increase since 1880, OFFS It's, 229S st
The estimated capacity of the
schools is.................... 5l6.94a
An increase 0f...............-. 27,SO7
The total amount of taxes levied by the
school districts, (DeKalb and Macon coun-
ties not included is 81, 2S6, l9l 60. which
is $O.4I on the 800 Of the assessed valua-
tion of taxable property for State and
county purposes.
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
The three Normal schools, located re-
spectively at kirksville, Warrensburg and
Cape Girardeau, are i'm q fiourishing CON-
dition. They are situated in three Of the
geographical divisions of the State and are
easy of excess by rail at all seasons-the
one at Cape Girardeau being also accessible
by water. They are located in communi-
ties distinguished Tor their intelligence and
morality, and have grown into public
oOmmendation and patronage so rapidly
that they may now be considered an indis-
pensible part of the educational system of
Missouri. No State is assuming a more
prominent and pronounced position in
favor of all grades of education than Mis-
souri,. Beginning with the kindergarten
system i'm cities and towns, ascending to
the common school grade, the school OF
manual training, the high school, the Nor
NAL school, the School of Mines. the de-
uominational colleges in various sections
OF ihe State, Washington University i'm
st. Louis, and to the State University at
Columbia These form an educational
unity of which no defence is required, as
its perfection is rapidly passing beyond the
limits OF just criticism. Few, il any, of
the other States have a larger or more
safely secured school fund than this State
There have been enrolled during the
present school year at the Warrensburg
Normal School 364 students, being q net
gain of IS, or more than thirty per cent.
over the enrolment of the corresponding
date of last year. This does not include
the school of practice. which enrOIls 60.
During the last school year 365 students
matriculated, all of whom filed written
declarations of their intention to teach in
this State. One hundred and seven were
teachers of some experience before ma
circulation, and 239 designed making this
profession their permanent calling. Of
the number registered last year, 3SS we're
residents If Missouri and from other
States. The attendance from the State
represented SO counties. The occupations
of the parents of these students are as
follows: Farmers, 6S; mechanics, 8; all
other callings, %
The number of students enrolled at the
Kirksville school during the year ending
June, 1882, was 4Sl. Number enrolled
present year, up 70 December /, 1882, $50.
Not having the information before me,
am unable to state the number of counties
represented by the students in this school,
the number who have taught or intend
making teaching their calling, or the occu-
palions of their parents. This school has
an enviable reputation, secured by the
thoroughness of its curriculum, and by the
excellent qualifications, character and de-
vOtion of its corps of teachers.
There were enrolled at the Cape Girar-
deau school last year 225 students. This
year, to December lst, 2l1, with the ex-
pectation that il will reach 500. Consid-
ering that this school is, by several years,
the junior of the other Normal Schools,
and is situated in part of the State less
populous than are the communities sur.
rounding the others, il has an enviable
record. 1t is under the management of
one of the best and most ardent educators
in the State, whose reputation is co-exten-
sive with its limits. He is supported BY
an able and Jealous corps Of teachers. Its