Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-10-22
SCHOOL FIGURES.
Some Interesting Figures and Statis-
tics from the Annual Report
Of County Superintendent
Advances that Have Been Made in the
E County School System in the
Past Year.
Notes of Interest Regarding the Con-
dition and Conduct of the Sew
eral County Schools.

eral County Schools.
Supt. c. D. Edick's annual report
shows that there has been a general
improvement in school houses, new
ones have been built, and two more
will be built before the end of the
year. EtA- ~ -.su. 'g -,....
Old school buildings are being re-
paired and painted, more would have
Deen done in that line during the last
vacation, if help could have been se-
cured. -. 80 = ''
School grounds are being fenced,
wells are being added to the grounds
and the efforts to make trees grow on
the school grounds are increasing.
The schools are well supplied with
uniform texts boons. The school ap-
paratus in most of. the districts is very
good - !
There is a marked improvement in
the length of school terms. The en-
rollment is larger than ever before.
The per cent of attendance the past
year was 81 per cent on an average
throughout the county, this being the
largest average per cent of attendance
in the history of the county. ~
= The classification and grading in the
common schools will now be done to
conform with the new course of study.
The teachers standard has been very
materially raised, but two third grade
certificates having been issued during
the past year. n. 3.
The teachers training school has
been a great help to the teachers, and
burleigh county teachers are in good
demand, sixteen of them are now en-
ployed in adjoining counties.
More supplementary reading ma
eerial should be supplied by the school
boards. 81 Es.. "a @E .s.
Every school should be supplied
with a school library. r. Teachers
should provide themselves with pro-
fessional libraries as fast as possible.
Some interesting figures from the re-
port are as follows: ....-.,- .. l>az
Number of organized school dis
tricts. 27; number OF new districts Or
ganized since last report, 1; total num-
Der of districts, %; number Of graded
schools in county, IL; number of un-
graded schools in county, 80; total
number of schools in county, Al; num-
Der of departments in graded schools
II; number of departments in un-
graded schools, 80; total number of
departments, II; number of school
houses built during the year for un-
graded schools, 1; total number Of
school houses built during the year, 1;
number OF frame school houses in
county, 81; number of stone or brick
school houses, 3; number of log school
houses, 2; total number of school
houses, ~; total seating capacity of
all school houses, 1860; number Of
school libraries in county, 8; number
Of volumes in lihrar;asA oxo1udina
webster,s dictionary 1osa. nunhor cf
volumes added to libra riass dnrin. rri Tho
wear o. nnm ,.,, her of schools - dis+riot
for which tent hooks ara f,rn;shad
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schools that ohservad5 rho,..' H., I'd.
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