The citizen., 1900-11-30
SCHOOL EXAMINERS RE
PORT.
Satisfactory Condition of the
Schools and Reasons Given
For an Increase of Appropri-
alton.

The annual report of the Public
School Examiner, Ephraim l..
Boblitz, has Just been published
and is interesting to all who fol-
low the details of this magnificent
institution. 1t gives the rules
and regulations of the Board of
School Commissioners, rules for
teachers, course of instruction in
the various grades, rules for care
and distribution of free text
books, curriculum of high schools,
price list of text books, tie an
nual financial statement, list of
public school teachers and the
personal report of Examiner Bob
litz.
Following will be found ex.
tracts from the last named report:
The total expenditures for 1898,
'99 were SS3, ,Sl0.4S; for 1899 1900,
$50, 034. 20. Number of months
schools were open in 1898 80. 81;
1899 1900. ii. Teachers employ
ed 1898 '99, 2i3; 1899 1900, 253.
OF this number for last year, 2l9
were white and 81 cOlored. OF
the white teachers 10S were male
and Ill female. Male principles,
100; female, 80; male assistants,
s; female, 81; colored teachers,
male. 20: female, II; male prln-
ciples, 20; female, 8; female as
SlStantS, >.
The enrolment for 1898 1899
was II sos; 1899 1900, 10, $50.
The difference in numbers enroll
ed is largely if not entirely due
to the eXtention of one month in
the previous year.
Pupils in attendance 1899 1900:
Fall term, S,922. average atten
dance, 6,077; winter term 10, ll6,
average, 7,233; spring term,
9,55l, average, G,l2S; general
average for the year, G,5l6; pu-
pills over 1G years of age, SIG.
Pupils in first grade, 2,203;
second, 1, ,302; third, l,66l; fourth,
/, 40; fifth, 1.62S: sixth, 1880;
above sixth, 7l3; in book keeping,
100; algebra. SIP; physiology,
$40; geometry, 5ll; philosophy,
l $50; drawing, l, 127; Latin, 100.
School houses built 10y the
County Commissioners during the
year: Lime Kiln, Troutyille. Mt.
Hope and WalkerSVille, all of
frame, costing respectively, 500
is, 9799. %, 9636. 100, Sl92. Is.
New houses being built or ad-
ditionS being made: For Freder-
ick Female, twelve class rooms,
which, with proper connection
with building left standing, will
make sixteen rooms in all, with a
seating capacity for eight hundred
pupils, and give proper accom-
modationS to the female pupils
for at least Il decade; an addi-
tional story to the Adamstown
school house i'll BuckeyStown dis
trict, new frame buildings at
! Tyler'S and Valley View i'll Mid
dletown district and at Edgewood
/ in TuScarora district.
During the past decade there
has been an increase of thirty
eight teachers, and an increase of
four hundred and twenty pupils.
In 1890 the average proportion of
pupils enrolled was As pupils to L
teacher, in 1900 ~ to |. The en-
rOllment of pupils has not kept
pace with the increase in the num-
Der of teachers, but the schools
have been brought closer to the
homes of the children, and even
now there is too must congestion
in some localities. We have
neither too many teachers nor too
many school houses.
During the period named the
State appOrtionment has been
slightly increased and that of the
county to the amount Of So, 800.
A study of the financial statement
appended to the report will show
that the receipts from all sources
is not sufficient for the proper
maintenance and continuance OF
the schools for three terms and
that more money is required.
The total cost of the schools fOI
all purposes except free text
books, for which there is a special
and sufficient appropriation, was,
during the past year, SSO,O34. 20
Divide this by 253, the total mum
ber of teachers and the quotient
S31G.34 will represent the average
expenses of each school, which
includes teachers salaries, fuel,
rent, furniture, repairs, supervis
ion and all expenses, except text
! books, incident to their mainten
ance.
The demands for new school
houses in the future will be neither
so pressing nor will they necessi
tate so large an expenditure il
the future as in the past. The
greatest expenditure required il
the near future will be for Bruins
wick, which should have facilitie:
for 150 or 200 additional pupils
Other applications are on file