Milford chronicle., 1889-03-22
Schools of the State.
FIGURES FROM PRESIDENT A. N. RAUBs
BIENNIAL REPORT.

FIGURES FROM PRESIDENT A. N. RAUB's
BIENNIAL REPORT.
The Biennial report OH the free schools OF
Delaware by the president of the State Board
of Education forthe period ending December
81, 1888 has just been issued from the press
Of the State Sentinel ar Dover It contains
IFS well-printed pages It is made up ofthe
reports Of Superintendents Bessey, Handy,
Ward and Harlan, the latter Of Wilmington
Henry c. Conrad actuary of the colored
schools reports of schools having incorpor-
ated boards, and samples of questions used
in the different counties in the examination
of teachers.
From the Wilmington statistics are taken
the following figures Estimated population
of city, $1,000 school houses, Fl school
rooms, I6I teachers, I62 highest salary,
SI,5oo lowest, 5000; average salaries of
teachers, about 5000; pupils enrolled during
year, S, ,694 average daily attendance, S.
500 average daily attendance in high school
classes, 1872; average daily attendance in
grammar and primary schools. SOY; per
ceutum Of attendance in all the schools of
the whole number enrolled, 656. In six
teen years the average attendance of pupils
in all the schools has increased from 3,355 TO
$500 the number enrolled from $500 10
S,6o4 There are five colored schools i'll the
city with 10 rooms, 10 teachers and 76S sit
tings for study The salaries run from $500
to $500 per year. The whole number of pu-
pills enrolled is I,oI7, with an average daily
attendance of6II. The percentage of atten-
dance Of those enrolled is 6oI.
In New Castle county, according to Super
iutendeut Bessey, there are POI schools in
operation, with "a ,o62 white children enroll
ed in 1888, and an average daily attendance
of9,532, the average age Of the pupils being
oIS years; average daily attendance in each
school, I45. IN New Castle county, exclu-
sive of Wilmington. there are 7,I57 white
children ofschool age. The average monthly
salary of teachers in 1887 and 1888 was $40
SO. Value of school grounds and school
buildings forth same years, Sf97, 100; school
furniture, S4I,39o-
Superintendent Handy gives the following
figures for Kent county School districts,
I27 schools in operation, 81 teachers, 1872;
white children enrolled, 6,o37 of which s.
$50 are males and 2,SS7 females; average
daily attendance, $3.50; average age of those
enrolled, 9S years value of schools and
grouncs, S97,273 school furniture, S9,oSS. so;
average monthly salary. $500.
Superintendent Ward Of Sussex county
gives the following figures School districts,
1913 teachers, I65 average monthly salary,
S3I; pupils enrolled outside incorporated
districts, 6,243 school houses, I53; value of
grounds and buildings, S237IS; school furn-
iture, S2,7a5.
Henry c Conrad, actuary of the colored
schools, reports Schools, 69; enrolment,
$3.50 New Castle county, outside of Will
mington, 10 schools Kent, 20 schools sus-
sex, ~ schools; amount distributed to schools,
S7,537. .55-S5,364 from state appropriation
and sz,I732s from school tax fund
President Raub in his report says
"The laws for compulsory education in
several of the states are practically so mop
erative, the results so unsatisfactory, and the
theory so undemocratic in principle, that
cannot recommend such law for Delaware
A law of the kind may be desirable in large
cities when backed by coustabulary force
to gather the abseutees into school, but it
has never been either effective or popular in
communities chiefly agricultural, and il
would not probably be SO in this state"
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