The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-25
STATE SCHOOL FACTS.
Many Interesting Features of the BIZ
ennial Report.

schools, school houses, school census,
attendance, teachers, resources, ex-
penditures, transportation, high schools
and miscellaneous accounts. 1t &C.
counts for every cent of money paid
out for schools by towns and State
and every cent received. The report
is made out from blanks filled out by
the town and city clerks of the 246
towns and cities of the State 1t is
long and tedious job and requires
pains, patience and accuracy. Jesse
A. Harvey has been at work on the
report for nearly year and feels
justly relieved at the completion of
the work to find that all of the sheets
balance.
There are many interesting features
of the report with reference to the
progress made in the State in educa-
tional lines in the past year, which
ended March 81, 1904, in comparison
with the figures of the year ending
March 81, 1903.
The number of schools in the State
remains about the same with slight
increase this year over last. In the
year ending March 81, 1904, there
we're @, $50 schools and 2,455 legal
schools. In the year ending March
81, 1908, there were 1856 public
schools and 2, 454 legal schools For
the year 1903 here were 2, pa school
houses, 1867 disused and I6 new houses,
while in 1904 there we're 2, 223 houses,
364 disused and 90 new buildings.
The attendance remains about the
same. For the year ending March,
1903 the total number of pupils was
&C, 497, 80, $50 males and 80, S98 fe
males. The average number of days
attendance of all pupils was 113. For
the year ending March 1904 the total
number Of pupils was &C, $50, 33, 500
males and 80, 906 females-the av-
erage number Of days attendance of
all pupils being ia. These figures
show that the number of males at
tending schools exceeds the females by
about 700.
According to the figures of the re-
port there were, in the past year, over
2t0 more teachers III the State than
the previous year. In 1903 the total
number of teachers was 3,056 and in
1904, 1910. One noticeable and in
teresting feature in connection with
the report of the teachers is the fact
that not very many of the masculine
eex are following this vocation, the
bulk of the number being females
In 1903 there were $3.50 different male
teachers and 2,727 different female
teachers. OF this number no We're
graduates of State normal school and
23S, college graduates. In 1904 she
number of males in the profession was
324 to 2, 9S5 females, 100 being gradu-
ates of State normal school and 254,
college graduates There is slight
increase in remuneration for teachers.
In 1904 the average wage per week
including board for the male sex was
$llS4 and for the female 81. Of. The
year before the respective wages we've
$l1.79 and 81. 10. The figures from the
reports of 1901 and 1902 will best
show the appreciable increase IN
wages of the State teachers in the past
four years. In 1901 the average wage
per week for male teacher was $40
nd N
1902 the respective wages were 50. 40
and So. TO- Thus. it will be seen there
was an increase in wages i'll 1904 of
S3.44 per week for male teacher
from that of 1901 and $.94 for female
teachers.
The resources for schools show an
increase of nearly $50, 900 In 1903
the total amount received including
the per cent of the grand list, amount
raised, amount from cent State tax,
the Huntington fund, the United
States deposit fund, buttons and other
sources was l,l3l, 65S.0S while the
corresponding item for 1904 was 81, 100, =
986. 90 The estimated value of school
lands in 1908 Vas $579. I'll. 60 and the
estimated value of school property ex-
elusive of funds and lease lands was
81, 9l1, 1885, O8. The corr esponding items
! for 1904 were $780, 744 and So, 034,
| 1877. 90.
The expenditures show "A slight in
crease. In 1903 the total expenditures
were 81, 14O, 79l. 10; the cost per week
of a school $13.13; and the yearly
cost per pupil $l5.5 SO. In 1904 the ex-
penditure were S1,23l, 1896 33; the cost
per week of schools $l37 10; and the
yearly cost per pupil $le.2S.
During the year ending March IL,
1908 the number of pupils furnished
conveyance to school was 7l9 and in
the following year $40.
In 1904 there were four more high
schools than the previous year, il
1908 there being 70 and in 1904, n.
The humber of pupils in the high
school In 1908 was 1887 and in 1904,