The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-26
PRIVATE SCHOOL WORK.
SOME DEFINITE FACTS ABOUT
OUR INSTITUTIONS.
The Number of Teachers and of Pu-
pills. the Value of School Property,
and OF Libraries.

a letter Of inquiry to the Principals Of all
the private schools and colleges in North
Carolina whose address it could procure,
asking:
When established
How many teachers
liow many pupils:
Value Of school property?
Value of school apparatus
Value of library and number Of books?
Percentage of increase in patronage
during last five years
Percentage Of increase in efficiency and
grade Of work during the same period
There is such q lamentab' lack Of def
mite statistical information that there are
many schools of which TIE CHRONICLE
could learn nothing, and which in conse
quence received no letter. 4 great many
letters have not been answered. Half a
dozen have been answered to which the
writer's principals of schools y did not
sign their names.
Yet, in spite, Of 50 many hindrances
which meets every effort to get accurate
information THE CHRONICLE has the pleas
urc to publish the following synopses Of
letters They will serve as a basis for
comparison whereby several very impor
tant facts about our educational work
will be clearly shown; and from them a
reasonably accurate approximation to
trustworthy statistics can be made.
OF the 80 private schools and colleges
I, Oh Ic ~ IF bai h
lishment, the important fact is made
plain that Is have been established since
1880; 10 were established between 1870
and 1880; 4 between 1850 and 1870; and
) before 1850 @ Of which date from
the last century The University and
Bingham School.)
The 33 schools whose letters give def
mite information have 167 teachers and
| 4,0l1 pupils; their school property is val
ucd at S531, 500; their educational appar
atus at $o2, $40; and their books at Si3,-
| 500
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. estab-
| lished in 1893; doors opened in 1495.-
Number of faculty Is; number of pupils
| 210; yalte of school property 5000, 600;
percentage of increase i'll efficiency and
advancement Of work done within last
| five years 10; value Of educational appa-
ratus s. 900; number of volumes in Ii
| brary p, 600.
DIR. X. P. BATTLE, President.
| WAKE FOREST COLLEGE. established Feb
| rllary, 1884. Faculty includes mem
/ bers; number Of pupils 16l; value Of
school property $50, zoe; invested endoW
ment S100 600; percentage Of increase Of
| patronage within last five years :: value
Of educational apparatus s., 00o, value Of
! school library 50, 900; number of volumes
| 5000. w. L. POTEAT, Sec. 8. Fac.
PEACE INSTITUTE, established in i9.2-
| present Principals have been identified
with the female schools Of North Caro-
! lima since 1887, in HillsborO and III Char
| lOtte): number of teachers II; number of
| pupils 201; value of school property 500
| 900; percentage of increase of patronage
/ within last five years so; perccn age of
| increase in efficiency and advancement Of
work done in same period fully 50 per
cent; value of educational apparatus 81.
! 500 or IS, 500, il medical Instruments are
| included; number of volumes in library
| 800. +. BURWELI. u Son.
| CHARLOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE, estab-
| lished in 1S57-Nunber of teachers s.:
number of pupils 100; value Of school
! property $50, 900; percentage of increase
! of patronage within last five years, (be-
| gan in 1873 with so, increased to 115 in
1882; percentage Of increase in efficiency
and advancement of work done in same
period 100; value Of educational appara-
! tus 81 900; value of school library 800;
! number of volumes 80
VIM. r. ATKINSON.
| CENTRAL INST,ITUTE FOR YOITNG LADIES
! 0ittleton) established in 1SS2.-Number
of teachers 4; number of pupils 81; value
of school property $4,000; percentage of
increase in two years so; percentage in
efficiency, &C., more than 80 per cent.
J. NJ. RHODES, Principal
| ENGLISH AND CLASSICAL SCHOOL, No. 42O
/ Orange Street, ilmingtOn-Number of
teachers 1; number Of pupils 16; value Of
school property So, ,O0O percentage Of in
crease Of patronage within last five years
| has been about the same; value Of educa-
tional apparatus, original cost $3.50; value
of school library, nearly $4,000; number
of volumes, about 1000.
DANIEL MORRELLE.
WARSAW HIGH SCHOOL, established in
| 1S50.-Number of teachers, A. number of
pupils p; value of school property 81,
0OO; increase Of patronage in five years
| ~ PEI CCIIu, luCICdoC Ill CIiICltIICy VI " VI n
80 per cent; value Of educational appa-
ratus 5000.
W. M. & DAVID S. KENNEDY.
| La GRANGE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, es-
tablished in 1S70.-FOur teachers; 125 pu-
| pills; value of property 50, 500; increase in
patronage in last five years 120 per cent.
increase in efficiency and grade of work
so per cent; value of apparatus $3.50;
library about $50 volumes, valued at $500.
III. II. WILLIAMS, Principal.
| BINGHAM SCHOOL, established 1913
Number of teachers 7; number of pupils:
| Total for 1888 ,256; average in attendance
at one time 175; number Of pupils to a
teacher %; value Of school property $50
600; percentage Of increase of patronage
within last five years 100; percentage of
increase in efficiency and advancement of