Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-15
Superintendent ShuII Tells Board
Of Education Of Condition
of the Schools. M
RENT MORE ROOMS.
Enrolment Breaks All Records and an Ex-
ira Building is Hired to RsIIsys No. n
Building Committee Ordered to Procure
Furniture and Two Teacher win be Sc.
cured fer his Annex.

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The highest percentage Of attends
ance and the largest enrolment ii
the history of the public schools OF the
city were shown by the report for the
month of September which was pre-
sented by Superintendent Shull to the
Boar,l of Education last night. The
percentage of daily attendance on the
average enrolment Was .959. The
highest former mark wns .94. During
the past month there were .13 classes
whose percentage of attendance Yves
over .9s. and one room. that of Miss
Mary Mead, in school No. 1, had 800.
The enrolment was 3, 553, 400 more
than the largest previous enrollment
OF this number, 1876 were boys. and
!, ,7S7 girls. t
Chairman Poulson, Of the building
|'committee, which had in charge this.
securing of an annex of school No p
reported that the only available place
found was one Of the stores In the
Goldberger building. State street. 2
few doors south ofsWashington street.
1t will accomn o l .te two classes, bys
the insertion of partition. to be put
in by Mfr. Goidberger. Thess i
$50 per months not ttHolddfnR haRt
The price was considered high ty some
of the members, but Mr.. Poulson,s
observed: Although &35 Il month
seems q great deal, still I ilink the
benefit 1T would be to the = ldren
would more than over talaLce.. " ex-
pense. !" On motion the slore was
ordered rented, and the building com
mittee ordered to procure furniture
The teachers committee was ordered
to secure two teachers for this annex.
On recommendation of Superintep-
dent Shull, who stated that the eight
Remington typewriters now in use IN
the commercial department. Of the high
school are insufficient, four more
were ordered rented. These will just
fill the class room used for that putt
pose. Mr.. Shull said that there are
now about fifty students using the
machines Fhis is nearly one-third OF
the high school enrolment. The rentaf''
per year of each machine is about
Sl5.75.
A recess of two minutes was taken,
on motion of Commissioner Pouison,
and, upon recopvening, warrant for
$4O0 was ordered drawn at the order
Of +. w. Siebler & Company, of DEas-
ton, Pa who are building the high
school wall.
| The plans for school No. Z, drawn
by J. K. Jensen, were reported aps
proved by the State supervising archir
tect.
In his recommendations Superintept
dent Shull called attention to the fact
that some leaky gas fixtures on the
ground floor of the high school have
not yet been repaired BY the electrical
contractor ordered to do the work.
He also spoke of the need OF renewing
the heads on tho two drums used for
marching in two of the schools. The
superintendent report for.September,
in full, is rs follows: Total enroHs
ment for the month: Boys, 1916;
girls, 1887; total, 1868 ; average en i
rollment, 1920; average attendances
3. 254S: per cent of daily Enttendance
on average enrolment, 95s; number
OF cases of tardiness, 1l7; number Of
times teacher was tariy. g.; number
of pupils present every dag, l,s53;
number of classes or divisions, 1881
number of sessions during month, SSa
number of sessions school closed, o.
number of visits by superintendentl
during month, 1876; number of visits
J by commissioners during month, lSs
number of visits ny citizens, 20; nuns
Der of days pupils were onroil, 81, 054fl
number of days pupils were presents
So, 5S5 number Of days pupils were aba
sent, s,s2s1a.