Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-06
THE sUPEkINTEND REPORT
DIR. Buehrie Addresses Himself to Some Popu
lar Complaints

Ihe lOIOWlng il the report Ol the city
superintendent:
| LANCASTER, Pa, Aug ., lsSG
| To the Beard f.SchcoI Directors.
Gentlemen, your city superintendent sub
| mits the following report of the public
| schools for the month OF June:
| The whole number of pupils enrolled was
| 20 in the high schools, 32l in the grammar,
lS2 in the secondary, Il in the ungraded,
6S- in intermediate and !, 2OO in the primary,
| making total of 3O62 The average attend
ance was 262 in the high schools, 10 in the
gsmmar, 4sl in the secondary, SO in the un-
graded jS6 in the intermediate and l,9i2 in
the primary, making a total OF 2,G9j. The
average percentage was 50. The number
OF visits made by the city superin-
tendent was 43. The number of visits
made by directors was 50, as follows ::
Hon. J. =. Wickersham 81, DIR. NJ. l.. Herr
., T. i. MCEillgott 4, Hon. J. b. Warfel 9,
J. |. Hartman :, DR.. j. Levergood, ". O.
Marshall and J. W. Byrne each one
The statistical table appended will show
the enrolment and the average attendance
in each school both for the III Onth of June
and for the year ending June 80
The annual examinations for promotion
were conducted by the superintendent a. far
as possible. In the primary and intermediate
grades he examined all the pupils in the
highest class in reading and in the subjects
taught orally, including physiology and
hygiene; he also prepared all the questions
for the written examinations in these grades,
including drawing, writing, arithmetic aud
the map of Pennsylvania, and gave full
directions to the teachers conducting these
examinations In the secondary and gram
mar grades he examined all the pupils In the
highest class in all the branches taught in
these schools marking all the books and
papers except grammar grade papers in
arithmetic and grammar, and the boys
books in book k-keeping and their papers in
drawing.
The condition OF the schools, as far as il
Is revealed in these examinations, Is with
few exceptions very good. In the grammar
grade the greatest Improvement is noticeable
In the degree of grammatical accuracy with
which the papers are prepared and in the
skill shown in designing from any elements
submitted at the time of the examination.
The skill shown in drawing, from memory,
forms illustrative OF subjects studied in the
sciences was such as To encourage us to pre-
serve and extend this kind of work as a valu-
able auxiliary In the understanding and the
teaching OF subjects IN geography, physi-
ology and history.
This being the time designated for the an
nual report, desire to call attention to the
steady Increase in the number OF pupils en-
rolled in our public schools which, making no
deductions for duplicate enrOlments due to
removals from one part of the city to another
ana TO occasional promotions has reached
f,31O exclusive OF the pupils attending the
night schools. The statistical stable will
show that these pupils are with few excep-
tions very evenly distributed among the
schools OF the same grade. The few over
crowded schools will be relieved when the
additional rooms in the Lemon street build
ing, and the prospective new building at the
corner OF Walnut and Mary are occupied. So,
too, the disprOpOrtion between the mum ber OF
pupils assigned 10 teachers of different grades
Is rapidly disappearing Using the average
monthly enrolment as our standard of COM
parison, we md that there were 43 pupils TO
teacher In the high schools, AZ in the gram
mar, al In the secondary, 81 in the intar-
mediate, and ~ in the primary. 1t NAV be
interesting to know that the average cost OF
tuition per pupil per month, exclusive OF the
German and English schools, is as follows /:
High schools, sL6S; grammar, sL05; second
ary, S0.T; intermediate, SO.5i; primary.
SG4i.
Special efforts having been put forth TO So
cure regularity OF attendance, il affords me
great pleasure to submit the following fifty
one names OF pupils attending prl-
mary, secondary and grammar schools
and deserving special mention for not having
been absent from school single session dur
ing the term Maggie Arnold, John Fritchie,
Frank Thurlow, Henry Wetzler, Katie
Selvert, Samuel Albright, Katie Metzgar,
Bertha Cooke, Ida Landau, Estella Kiefer,
Benz. McComsey, Myrtle Green, Ada Kieier
Lizzie Brecht, Ellie MeElroy, Lizzie Metzgar,
Carrie Koehler, Annie Shenk, Gertrude
Heck, Emma Wiley, Claude Shumaker
Clarence Bausman, Mary Edwards, Otto
Bohn, Lottie Free Ida Il; Croft, Lulu Getz,
Alice Spindler, Mary Smsling, Emma Eng
roff, John Hartman, Annie McElroy, Miriam
Herr, Carrie Herr, Annie Wilhelm, Sailie
Hill, Katie McComsey, Bertha Skeen, Ella
Widmyer, Harry Koehler, Clara Bauer,
harry Decker, Ida Lyons, May Axer, Walter
Kline, Leon Dodge, Irene Rudisili, Stella
skeen, Laura Widmyer, Theodore McDon.
nell, Laura Pyfer.
In obedience TO the directions OF your
experimenting committee and with view