The sun., 1901-12-18
CITY NOW HAS
ll,0l9 PUPILS
To Educate Them Last Year Cost
S163.073.47
THIS NOT CONSIDERED HIGH
Superintendent Twitmyer Recom-
mends Revision of the Course
ofstudy in tho Elemen-
tary Schools.
THIS NOT CONSIDERED HIGH

Replete with interest is the thrtieth
annual report Of the Department Of Pub
tic Education and the first report of
Superintendent George w. Twitmyer,
which is now ready for distribution. 1t
presents the usual general statistics with
the reports of the superintendent, the
assistant superintendent, the principal Of
the Wilmington High School, the super
yiSors of music and sewing and the prin-
cipal of the Howard School.
"A careful study of the statistics ac
campaigning this report, viii reveal the
following facts: There are employed in
the white schools, go teachers, an in.
crease of twenty over last year: the
total enrolment of pupils was HOB,
decrease of six, but the average number
belonging was 9,506, an increase of 52S
over last year; the ACREAGE daily attend
ance was 8,476, an increase Of 1898 over
last year. The per cent. OF attendance
| in the High School was 96.7, and in the
| primary and grammar grades, 7I.4 The
number of eolored teachers was 36, an in
crease of two, and the whole number
OF colored pupils enrolled was 1850, an
| increase of 19 over last year.
THE total amount of money expended
for salaries, books and supplies and fuel
was $163,07347; the cost of books and
stationery for each pupil was $1.55, and
the whole cost for each pupil, based on
the total number enrolled was $15.T6.
| During the year there was received from
City Council $162.792.17, this being 24.ss
per cent. of the total amount of the
lcity's appropriation for current expenses
| During the past year the city APP
propriated FOR police purposes $79,9oo.2o.
while it appropriates for the erection Of
new school houses and for the education
fuf eleven thousand children $182, 2,T92.11,
| The schools of our city cost large sum
" money for their maintenance, but the
Iratio of the amount expended upon them.
when compared with the entire revenue
of the city. is not high i'll comparison
with the expenditure of some cities III
which schools of the highest grade are
to be found.
The following recommendations arr
made to the Board OF Public Education
Hooking toward the increased efficiency
OF the schools: A thorough revision OF
the course of study in the elementary
schools SO as to bring it into fuller con-
formity 10 our needs and modern educa-
tional thought and practice; the extension
OF the High School course to four years,
with a liberal provision for electives; the
introduction of sewing into the upper
primary grades: the extension of man
ual training in the form of constructive
work in all Of the grades below the tlgl
School: a more complete system OF keep
ing records i'll account with the pupils
80 as to insure better care of the text
books furnished by the Board Of Educa
ton; thorough overhauling or remodel
ing Of some of the sanitaries in the inter
rst4 Of cleanliness and the health Of tbs
children; the establishment Of a peda
gogical library in connection with th'
principals Round Table Library, oper
10 all Of the teachers of the city; tn,
establishment of an ungraded school fol
the better training of children. requiring
special care and instruction"