The Coconino sun., 1901-09-28
SCHOOL STATISTICS.
Superintendent Lons's Annual Report A Large Increase In tho Value
 of Public School Property.

A summary of school statistics re- gently issued by R. L. Long, superin' tendent of public instruction, for gen. eral information, contains some inter- esting facts. The statistics are for the year ending June 30, 1901, and show a decided increase over the preceding year in nearly every department.
 The number of children between 6 and 2l years of age who attended last year was 23,503, while for the preced. ing school period It was 2O,S33. The total number who attended private schools last year was l,4S3. against 463 for the year before. There was but a small increase last year over the pre- ceding in the number of children who did not attend any school. For 1901 the total was 5,996, and for 1900 it was i.5S3. Last year the total enrolment in public schools was l7,Sl7, against 16,504 for fhe preceding term.
 The total number of school districts in the territory for 1901 was 21O, an in- crease of l3 over the year before. Dur ing the year ending last June IS new schoolhouses were built, which is but one more than was built during the pre- ceding year. The total number of grammar and primary schools at the end of the year was 43l, and for the year before that 398. The number of volumes in school libraries was S,922, against S,l6O for the previous year.
 In the various schools 1l6 male and 3l5 female teachers were employed last season, compared to l09 male and 29O female teachers for 1900. Of this num- Der 9I held normal school certificates last year and S5 the year preceding. The average salary of male teachers last year was sSO.6l, against $76.9 for the previous season. Female teachers were paid s64.S0, as against $63.4O.
 The receipts and expenditures for school maintenance present some in- teresting facts. The largest source of revenue was the county taxes, which turned in slSl ,204.74 last year and $l75, S64.29 the year preceding. The next greatest source during the past two years has been from licenses and fines. In this instance there has been de- crease. Last year the amount received was s44, ,lls.9S, against 8,S49.4S. Next in order was the poll tax, which con- tributed as its share last year $ll ,553.- 64, as against s29,sl7.6S. Last year sll, 45S.l5 was apportioned from the territorial school fund, and for the year preceding sll, l,lOO.sS. The remaining source of income, special taxes, gave $9,567. .OS in 1901, and Sl2, ,89S.36 in the year before. From the sale of bonds only sS,O4l.95 was obtained last year, against $40, 79S. .33 the preceding year.
 Of the receipts s56,544.47 was ex- pended last year for contingent ex- penses, fuel, etc., against $45, 953.32 the year before; for salaries, $2O8, ,0O8. 92, against $lS9, lS9.O2; for libraries, $366.- i6, against $477.59: for apparatus, 8, 335.4S, against $3,O53.73; for school fur niture, sl4, ,S75.l6, against S6,477.l2; for buildings, $l7, 1901 .2S, against $54, ,5SO.
 In the past seventeen years the value of school property has advanced from s2l2,3S9 to S5Sl ,860. The average daily attendance has increased from 3.226 to lO,744. In every other department there has been an increase equal to the two mentioned.
 University Row Settled.