The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-07-10

The above table shows total enroll
ment of 517, an average daily attendance
of 401, 97.8 per cent. daily attendance and
70 cases of tardiness. Last years report
showed a total enrolment of 5O4, 394 daily
attendance, 97 per cent, daily attendance
and 90 cases of tardiness.
The comparison is favorable for this
years report. Of the total enrolment this
year, 14l are credited 10 the High School,
1870 to the Grammar grades, and 1876 TO the
Primary grades, OF the total enrolment,
there were 251 boys and 266 girls. 1t twill
thus be seen that in all the schools there
we're 10 more girls enrolled than boys,
while In the High School alone there
were 10 boys and II girls, good showing
for the boys, surely, in that department,
when we remember that in the average
Ohio High School the girls outnumber
the boys nearly two to one,
During the year there were 90 pupils
permanently withdrawn from the schools
caused by removal from town, sickness
and business, the first two causes greatly
predominating. The number Withdrawn
was not larger than usual. Never since
my connection with your schools have
those Withdrawn staid In 80 much OF ths
year, and never have so few withdrawn
during the last term Of the year.
OF the whole number enrolled, only II
we're in the school less than three months
as compared with 81 for last year and q
for the year preceding that, while during
the year 1888 and 4,43 were in the schools
less than three months.
OF the foreign pupils there were ~ en-
rolled during the year, 81 Of whom ver'
in the High School, only one less than las
year.
The tuition fund for the year was abou
$540. Of the 14l High School pupils, a
the close OF the year there remained sc
not including the 80 graduates. These 8
pupils, with the Al promoted from the
Grammar, will constitute our High Schoo
for the beginning Of next year.
I think we may be pardoned a littl
pride in our High School when We call ;
mind its numbers, compared with total en-
rollment in all the schools. and the size {
its graduating classes. In the warfar
against our High Schools few years ag
throughout the State, the chief argumer
was the great expense as compared wit
the number Of pupils taught, so few WEI
there that entered the High Schools wit
any settled purpose Of finishing a cours
Of study. And with scores Of graduatin
classes throughout the State In the larg'
villages and towns numbering from two
eight and ten pupils, with the girls ou
numbering the boys two to one, there WI
seeming ground for complaint.
But the good people Of Wellington see
TO take the State at her word when 81
invites them TO let their children enter Il
High School and finish, at public expens
a course Of study that fifty years al
would have been considered quite liber
,, for many of the colleges Of the countr
Our people seem to appreciate what o
High School can do and does do for o
|, young people when they remain In q
, couise and attend faithfully to the wor
, This will be more apparent when ! a.
that in the published reports Of 70 Hi
School classes graduated during May al
June Of this year In Central and Northe
a Ohio. only two High Schools among I
number, those Of Akron and Woost
| graduated larger classes than our o'
school, and according to the Ohio Educ
tional Monthly, ours is the only school
the State, perhaps, that graduates me
!. boys than girls. Up TO date our Alum
4 representing 10 commencement, numbt
1876, 90 Of whom are girls and 90 are bo.
We still most earnestly adyise our peoT
n TO keep the boys and girls In the Hi
School till either the English or Lat
q course is finished 1t is good investme
= for our young people.
. The work Of the year In all the grad
was faithfully followed, and the fact th
only eleven failed Of promotion at the eI
i Of the year is assurance that teachers al