The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-23
WE TAKE HIGH RANK.
Seattle's Schools Lead i'm Sew
eral Respects.
IN OTHERS THEY FALL BEHIND.
Comparative Statement Showing school
Finances of Nineteen Cities of Forty
thousand Population.

Superintendent Barnard, of the city schools,
has prepared an interesting table of comparative
statistics of the school finances of nineteen
cities OF the United States OF about 5000 popu-
lation for the information of the board of
directors of the school district of Seattle, who
are now wrestling with the financial problem.
The items compared are incidental expenses,
sites, buildings, apparatus, improvements,
salaries oil teachers and city superintendent,
total expenditures, estimated value of public
school property, assessed valuation, total re-
cefpfs during the year, excluding loans, received
from loans and sale of bonds, total amount of
available funds, value of school property per
capita OF average attendance cost OF SUPERVISION
ana teaching per capita of average attendance,
amount received from taxes per capita of aver
age attendance, cost of teaching in mills per
dollar of assessed valuation, and amount raised
BY tax in mills per dollar OF assessed valuation.
The hgures given are one years expenses
for the various items. The figures for Seattle
are for the school year ending June, 1890. BY
this table 1t will be seen that in expenditures
Tor sites, buildings, apparatus and improve
ments Seattle leads all of these cities, and yet
In the value OF the school property she ranks
sixteenth. In incidental expenses she is third,
while sixteen cities expend more in salaries of
superintendent and teachers. Following is Sc
attle's rank in comparison with the other cities
IN the various items:
sca.tles
Rank.
Salaries of teachers and superintendent. 49,. II
Sites, building, apparatus, etc. ..,....-.-.....
Total expenditures ...................... 2
Value Of school property Observation-Disclosures. l6
Assessed valuation. Observation-Disclosures. 8
Total receipts, excluding loans .............. 10
Received from loans and bonds ..... /
Total available funds during year. - 4
value OF school property per capita of at'd'ce 6
Cost OF teaching and suptper capita of at'dce 8
Am reed from taxes per capita of at'd'ee. =
Cost OF teaching, efc., in mills per dollar OF
assessed valuation. .................... Is
Amount raised by taxes in mills per dollar OF
assessed valuation. Observation-Disclosures. 3
From the above ii will be seen that sixteen OF
the nineteen cities outrank Seattle in the
amount paid teachers, fifteen have more school
property, eight have greater assessed valuation,
nine have greater receipts, excluding loans On
the other hand, Seattle ranks among the first in
amount paid for sites and buildings loans, total
funds received, etc., which tends to show that
the expenses created have been largely for ad-
ditional sites and buildings, ETC., all made neces-
sary by the phenomenal growth Of the city.
The amounts expended by the nineteen cities
for the various items are as follows:
EXPENDITURES.
Comparative statistics for cities having ap-
proximately the same population as Seattle: