Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-01-05
GROWTH OF
THE SCHOOLS
Abstract from Annual Report 0
Territorial Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
NOTEWORTHY PR0CRES
Summary Of Public Schools and All
Other Seats Of Learning in the
Territory.


crease in population, enrolment of pu-
pills. number of schools and teachers
and financial condition of the schools
in the Territory of New Mexico, is an
abstract from the report of Colonel J.
Franco Chaves, territorial superintend-
ent of public instruction, to Governor
Miguel A. Otero, for the year ending
December 81, 1908. The article was
read before the New Mexico Educa.
| tional Association convention, and it's
reading was followed by unanimous
request that it be published in the
New Mexican.
Summary of Schools.
Summary of public schools. exclu-
sive of higher territorial educational
institutions, private, sectarian, and In
dian schools:
School population, August L. 1908,
II $50; an increase in ten months of
1881.
Enrolment of pupils, 1892; an in.
crease in ten months of 1880
Average daily attendance, 26,O65;
an increase in ten months of 1892.
Number of public schools 694 an in
crease in ten months of 81
Number of teachers employed 1893;
an increase in ten months of 81
Receipts from all sources, $474,26S.-
79; an increase in ten months of $49,-
9O3.37.
Expenditures, $300531 a de-
crease in ten months of $24,25326.
Value of public school property,
$716,515O9.
Cash on hand, August I, 1908, $173,-
7314; to which must be added ST.
52957. amount on hand in the new
counties of Leonard Wood and Quay,
making total of $181 .266.71
Summary of All OVER Schools.
Summary as to all schools, territor-
ial, sectarian, and private, but exclu-
sive of Indian, so far as can be ascer.
tanned
School population, August /, 1908.
71,9oO: an increase in ten months of
1881.
Enrolment of pupils, 43,S58; an in
crease in ten months of 1864.
Average daily attendance, 3OO07; an
increase in ten months of 1884.
Number of schools, 1888; an increase
in ten months of 80.
Number of teachers employed, 1,O62;
an increase in ten months of 113.
Receipts from all sources, $780,
540.53; an increase in ten months of
$75,77691.
Expenditures, $525,294.11; a de-
crease in ten months Of $9,O2442.
Value of school property, $1,652,-
373.09.
Comments on Growth.
consider the foregoing statement
as one upon which We can congratu-
late ourselves. The increase in popu-
lation, enrolment of pupils number of
schools and teachers and financial con-
dition, is nothing short of remarkable.
According two parents to each
child of school age, the population of
New Mexico today would be 215,S50.
The United States census of 1900 gives
the population of New Mexico, 1885,
310 Denying absolutely that the cen
sus of 1900 was complete, but conced-
ing for the sake of argument that it
was, we find that there has been an in
crease in the population of the Terri
tory of 2O,540 in three years. 1t is
known to every resident of this Ter
ritory. or should be known that the
agures given by the United States Gen.
sus are incorrect, and fall far short of
what they should be. Recollecting
hat my estimate of the population OF
New Mexico is based entirely upon the
'chool census under which apportion-
nent of funds is made, and in view Of
he fact that there are great numbers
# unmarried men here engaged in
mining, stock raising, and other pur-
uits, can it be said that my statement
hat there are 10000 such, is not a
conservative one? BY this addition,
lew Mexico would have a population
t more than 225,000; but have no
lesitation in saying that close CEN
us would reveal 25O,O0O.