Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-12-17
ANNUAL REPORT ON EDUCATION
IN TERRITORIAL INSTITUTIONS
Superintendent Clark Has Prepared Sta
tement of Conditions for Publication
for the Year Ending June 3Oth
SHOWS SPLENDID PROGRESS OF ALL SCHOOLS
College are Increasing Enrolment and Public Schools all
Over the Territory are Growing in Number
Importance and Usefulness

The report of School Superintendent |
Clark for the school year ending
June 80 is ready for publication, and
gives interesting data as to the edu-
cational advance Of the territory in the
past year and in recent years. Sum-
married. the report says:
"The advancement in school condi-
tions in our territory during the past
year has kept pace with our marvel
GUS commercial land industrial growth,
The large immigration of staunch
pioneers has given strength to educa'
tional sentiment. Results are evident
in longer school terms, better quall"
fed teachers, higher wages for teach
ers, improved school buildings, and
larger attendance of children, as well
as in many other ways.
During the summer of 1907, the in
stitute attendance of teachers was the
largest in the history OF our pubic
schools. six hundred and slXty-nve
teachers being enrolled (city teach
ers exempt. On January hfteenth'
nineteen hundred and eight, two nun
dred five districts were reported as
having had no school for the present
year, but 2S,7O4 children had been
enrolled, 1899 English speaking
13.2o4 Spanish speaking; 1ol ne
gro. and 929 teachers were engaged
in their instruction (6S5 in rural
schools: 244 in town and city schools;
336 men. 593 women. Nearly all OF
these districts haye since opened
school and in many cases undoubtedly
show total enrolment for the year
of fully 10000 children.
Million in School Property.
Four hundred and ten of the 100
rural districts own their school build
ings, S11 of which are in good condl-
tion The total value of school prop
ertv is s964,1S (s396,934 in rural dis
tricts; $5G7,250 in cities and toWns)'
The total bonded Indebtedness is 5000,
e11 o. s169. 1928 in rural districts
and s3G4,149 in cities and towns). me
school census taken in August, 1901,
onumerates S4.942 people from to u
wears of age (7S,3G0 N 19OS) On jan
uary Is, 1908, 3,245 pupils had been
enrolled in private and sectarlan
schools and 1926 had been enrolled IN
Indian schools. This indicates that
about 60 per cent Of those OF school
age have been enrolled in the schools
(For the United States as a whole,
70 per cent fthe school population
was enrolled in 1906) New Mexico >
per cent on this item is low because
we enumerate for school purposes all
children from five to twenty-one years
of age. Only seven states enuH1erale
children of SO wide range OF ages.
Texas for instance, enumerates chil'
dren from eight to eighteen
Teachers Well Paid.
OF the 6S3 teachers engaged in the
rural schools up to January l5, l9OS
10 held special permits 1873, third
grade certificates; 155 second-grade
certificates; 1874 first grade certlh
Gates; 4 three-year professional Ger
tificates; IS five-year professional GER
tificates; 8, professional life certlh
Gates. All certificates above county
third grade are Of standard equlya
lent to those in the states. The av
erage salary paid teachers In rura
schools is $51.4S. For the unltec
states in 1906, the average salary was
$4,000. In cities and towns, the aver
age salary paid is $6S.2o, ranging IRON
s56.S7 at Las Vegas to $S2.l4 at Gal
lup. The enrolment in cities ant
towns during the first half year was
s497 English speaking children, 27o'
Spanish speaking children, 7S negroes
Total of 1885. with 1872 additional II
private and sectarian schools.
School Publications.
During the past year the Depart
ment of Education has published al
Institute Course Of Study Of 13O page
for 1901, Flag Day Program OF q
pages for 1908, and fifteen new clfcu
lars and blank forms for systematic
ing reports. Manuscripts are now DC
ing prepared for an institute manua
OF 20 pages for 1908, common schoo
course of study of 200 pagesA and Tn
first general elaborate report OF tn
territorial board of education-a vo
ume Of 400 pages, well illustrate
and bound.
The year just closed has been tn
banner year for the territorial educs
tional institutions, as is shown by tn
following brief statements;
Agricultural College.
19O6-7 1907
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