The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-08
NE EWARK'S
SCHOOLS.
Stock Taking Has Just Been
Completed by Board Of
Education.
INCREASE IN HARDNESS
Teachers Were Paid Over
Half a Million Dollars
Last Year.
INCREASE IN HARDNESS

gone through with every summer, soon
after the school year closes, when the
summer schools are gotten safely launched
and in smooth working order, and then
the rush for appointments is for the time
being over and when the face of the
anxious educator is no longer seen about
| the offices. Then it ds that the superin-
| tendents secretary gets time to pile all his
| figures up in heap and then pull them
apart and arrange them in smaller and
/ separate heaps, for of such is the work
of the statstician.
| One does not have to. be a sharp on
matters scholastic to find much to in
| tell one much about the growth and de-
velopment of the city which can scarcely
| be learned in any other way or from any
other source.
| The total number of male pupils en-
| rolled during the school year was 1927,
| which is an increase of 656. The total
number of females was 1887 Cess than
| 1,400 more girls than boys) an increase of
| 757. The total number enrolled was there
| fore 1924, an increase of lab. The num-
| Der received during the year (Which
means the number of pupils who attended
| two or more schools in the city during
| the year, was 1856 males and 1.6H males,
] to tai of 1868. There were six less
| males and forty-nine more females that
| attended two or more schools last year
| than during the school year preceding.
| Deducting the number received from the
! total enrolment and we have the proper
and true enrolment of school children
| during the year, which is S4,761. This is
an increase of S40 which shows the
| actual growth of the school system so far
as pupils are concerned, in a single year.
| other statistics on enrolment are the
| following
There were twelve less pupils in the
| Normal School last year than during the
year previous, last years total being but
| 107. The actual increase in enrolment for
| the year at the High School was but
eleven, the total being 1,461, against 1,450
| for the preceding year. The grammar
grade enrolment for 1900 was S,463; for
| 1899. $780, increase, .65S; primary, 1900,
| 2S 375; 1899, %, ,256; increase 119; kindergar-
ten, 1900, AIS; 1899, 4076; increase, 542. The
| average enrolment for the last year was
29 662; 1899, 2S,432; increase, 1880. The aver
age attendance was 25,S27, against 24,972
! for the preceding year, which is an in
4
| crease of 955.
/ The real increase of school children is
| 4.3 per cent, which means not far from
| 1900, and which is about the same as it
| has been for several years past. Local
| educators now look on 1900 as the normal
| increase.
| The total number of days present dur
| ing the school year of 1S99-1900 was 5,0S7,
! 9021s, which is an increase of 4, ,4651s This
means that the number of days the chill
| dren attended school have been added to-.
| gether. The total number of days absent
was 636, 7SS, an increase of 733e411a. During
! the last school year there was 567 pupils
| who were present every school day, which
| is fifty-five less than for the year pre-
| ceding. There were 521 pupils who were
| neither absent nor tardy, which, again.
| is a decrease of thirty-two. There were
| 10, ,631 cases of tardiness which is an in
| crease of 1,140 which the increase in en-
] rolment seems to account for. The aver
age number of cases of tardiness per day
! for each teacher was .074 which is an in
1 crease of O06 of one per cent.
| The increase in percentage of tardiness
| is significant 1t can be readily accounted
| for, however. In the first place, the Ital-
dan school in Seventh avenue is running
4 over with tardiness. Promptness is some
/ thing the little Italians seem to know
| nothing about During the year there
were no less than 1929 cases of tardiness
in the school Then there IS the High
School There were no less than 1,135
cases of tardiness there, which is ex-
plained by the fact that the school is hard
| te reach for many pupils, and also by the
i
reference to tardiness. 1t does not suffice.
as it once did, to be in the school build
| ing at nine o'clock; you must be in your
classroom, and if not there must be
marked tardy. The school building is a
| big place.
There were thirty-seven pupils sus-
pended or expelled during the year, which
is a decrease of seven.
| There are four classes in the Normal
| School. an increase of one; thirty-nine in
! the High School, also an increase of one;
! 17s in, the grammar schools, an inerase of
| thirteen; 42S in primary school, an in
| crease of twelve: seventy-seven kinder
| garten, an increase of four; total 721, and
1 incrase of thirty-one. There are 1856 teach
ers. an increase of thirty-nine, five more
males and thirty-four more females. The
total amount of teachers salaries for last
year was S5S9.695. an incrase of $4,000 in a
single year. 1t is a big rise, any way
! one looks at it. But the fact that the
| salary liss amounts to such figure does
not mean that that amount was apid out.
for many teachers did not work every
day and therefore did not get full pay.
while the substitutes who worked in their
| places did not get as much as the hegu-
lar teacher would have gotten Con-
| siderably over a half million dollars were
paid out however, for teachers in New
ark last year and the increase in moneys
/ paid out in that year was at least $40 900.
| The school enrolment by ages gives. In
| compact form, the distribution of the
young learners from earliest childhood up
| to the last days that one may claim an
| education from the city. The figures show
| twenty four males and thirty females in
! the schools between the ages OF 4 and s.
j The smanne$s OF the number is explained