The news & observer., 1896-12-30
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DISBURSEMENTS

Ii will be observed that tlse dIsburse-
ments OF 1895 exceed the geceipts by
nearly $4,000 This is due 90 the fact
that the balance on hand at the end of
each year is not Included iIs the sum
mary above given The excess was paid
out of that balances which sls usually
about the same for each year=
There are in the StGte 634, 1s5 children
Of school age-6 to 21 years old. OF
these 410.S09 are wh5te and 22s3,316 are
colored. In 1895 thnre were: 621,249
school children-i03, $40 whites and 217-
437 colored.
The percentage Of school children en-
rolled in the schools Shows faEing Oft Of
from 4 to 6 per cene In 1899 over 90
per cent of the white and neaGy 90 per
cent of the colored children of ahe State
attended the public schools; daring the
past year 1890 the= percentage was 56
for whites and % for the colCred race.
Formerly a larger peg cent of tl.e colored
children attended the public SCHOOLS than
Of the whites. There were 34S,G ,G10 pupils
enrolled in the schools, during =the past
year. divided as follows; Whi6es, 231,-
059: colored. 117,55I. During 1he year
1895, the total enrolment was 3I3, ,063,
Of these 30, 5,413 were whites and 12S, 100
colored
The average attendance on the schools
during the year 1896 was: Whites. 1877,
115; colored. Gross. Total 204, ,2@3. This
shows a falling off Of nearly 5000 from
the year previous. the attendance for
1895 being: Whites, 136,954; colored, 70,-
461. Total. POT, ,4155 1t will be observed
that the falling off is among theZ colored
race, the whites showing an ncrease
this year 1896 over the last (1895) of
about 3,400. Over 81 per cent Of the
white children enrolled were in attend
ance during the year, as against 90 per
cent in 1895: while the per cent OF the
colored race enrolled in average attend
ance on the schools was about the same
(59 per cent? for both 1895 and 1896.
Sixty-three days was the average
length Of the school term for whiees, for
both 1895 and 1896. The colored schools
were run 50 days in 1896 and 90 days
in 1895. White teachers receired an
average salary of (males) $24.T5 per
month and tfemales) $21.64-from: II to
rs cents lower than in 1895. Colored
teachers received a slight average in
crease in salary. Males were paid
$26.70, as against $23.14 in 1896, and
females $20.96, as against S20.a in
1898.
School property, like all other property
in the State during the past year, has
deprecated in value Public schoolzprOp-
erty of North Carolina, in round snum-
bers, is valued at $500, 1000, as compared
with 100000 in 1895. The school
property of the whites is now vyorth
$654, ,925; in 1895 it was valued at S721,-
100. The colored race owns school prop
erty to the amount Of $233, ,206; in 1895
it was estimated to be worth $372, ,074.
Besides apparatus, sites and general
equipment this property consists of 6,638
school buildings-3,S4 ,S42 for the white
race and 1,796 for the colored. The
whites have % more buildings than in
1895 and the colored race has 81 less.
During the year 1896 about 664 more
schools were taught in the State than
during the year 1895. These were di-
vided as follows: Whites, 4,S75, against
4,372 in 1895; eolored, 2,374, against q
213 in 1895. There are in the State 146
more school districts than one year .ago.
OF these 673 are white and 113. are
colored.
Five counties did not send in a report
this year and the figures for them we're
estimated from former reports.