The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-18
THE STATE SCHOOLS.
Statistics Showing Their Graft
flying Condition.
THE INCREASE IN POPULATION.
King County Has the Largest Number
of Children and Best FaeilI-
ties for Them.

Professor z. B Bryan, o. olympia, state super
iBtendent OF public instruction, arrived ~ the
Rainier hotel last night. This morning be goes
% saohomi sh 70 attend county teachers insti-
tate, and from Snohonish lie goes 70 Po-s Town
send % be present ct = similar gathering
.'Ine public school system Of the state" said
be, is showing mos: gratifying improvement
IN every way. / am not preparing any report
because that work is done only once every two
years for the legislature but have been CON
piiIng some interesting tables from the reports
Of the county superlntendents.
These tables cover the year from Juiy ], 1870,
20 July /, 1921. They give the total school
census 81 iOo052. an increase OF l2,Z9. Or 1872
Per cent over the year preceding The enroll
Iaent ia 1878, increase Of l@,77S or a 81 Der
cent: the average daily Attendance $5,-z&, al
increase OF 3,Z76,oT "a per cent II hese figures,
said Professor Bryan, "shos greater growth IN
one rear than fifteen o. the states showed n tie
decade from 1850 70 lsg0.'
The coun with the sraslIes. number of
Children Of school, szs is Franklin with ninety
Blk. uinety-fye OF them EMO. led aad al average
daily attendance Of forIy-sevsn. King county
leads with d CENSUS OF 1855, an eurollEasnt Of
1872, and an attendance Of s,9Ss Pierce has
census Of II rs, enrolment q 7755, and attend
ance oil s.357. Spokaae's figures are 500. 5.6zs,
and 1911
In the number Of scbc0lnonses euiIi during the
yea spokane leads with 70; King comes next
with -. Pierce AID whitman have Il, " hatco-n,
-; Chebails, y. and AdaTnG. 10. Franklin is the
only county that has built no neI house; and
the tota. Tor the whole state is -.
In the total 81 schooIhe1sss, old and new,
v hiisnAn ieads with IL. King follows with 81,
Cheha!is has s.. CLARKE O., Columbia 81. Lewis
81, Lincoln s., Pierce -, Spokane % HeIla
hs!la u. Nhsteom s., ana Franklin and oksn-
ogsn tied for last place with four. In the state
there are I,275 schoohouses.
Ia the seating capacity of schoo4houses King
is ahead with IG5oz, and Pierce second with
e,st,. The sua for the state IS 4SS. In the
value OF the property King ls also ahead with
4653.sla, Pierce and spokane follow with s5s9.-
@ii and sS54. DO respect yeiy. The states grand
tosai ia sS.is5,542.5 King county has 2ls
teachers, Pierce 100. spokane 80 and hltmsn
ls9, with total OF 81 ia al counties The
average salary Of the male teachers IN
Washington il S5ls5 month, and
al the women s4I-60. The men get the most in
Franklin. 50, but there are only four teachers
there. Men ia King county average $74, ami
pexi - Jefferson with Se3-57. The best paid
mea are III Okanogan, where they get $50 s.,
while King pays 500 Pierce pays oaly 1897
Ia current expenses the state PAID for It's
schools g32igI-g9, Of which Kings share was
Slsi,ti9.lo. Pierces SlJ5.79L09, sud spokane's
ss526. OF the total expenditure y6sl 30 Il went
10 the teachers aud 81 ,5Sisi for rent. inel etc
King = teachers received sl.s,.j6s.1s Piefces,
Nli,ilsi5 and spokaaes, $5J,s7S0l For extra
ordinary expenses, such buildings, sites
furniture, apparatus and interest o. tonds, the
exl euditure in the whole state was sI2p9 305 81;
In Spokane county. $3.50 s.; ia King ;Dl,-
s3o.s9; Pierce, sl96,e96.4., and whatcom, Sll6,-
4O0z2
ne iotsi Indebtedness in school districts ia
Washington is IS, I35. 49iSS, bearing interest of
s.3J PER cent. on the average. In King county
the Indebtedness is ss>zlo7, at 9 per cent; in
Spokane $50, 395. at 3 per cent; Pierce s.o5 l96.
NJ 2. jefferson &4p7, ,s5. 1t =
Professor Bryan said that in number Of
counties school lands had been appraised where
there was not the slightest prospect OF a sale.
W ny this Was done il was hard TO see. unless TO
put money in the pockets of those making the
spprAisement