The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-13
Over Two Hundred Thous-
and Dollars Will Be Re-
quired to Operate Schools
During Ensuing Year.
COSTS NEARLY $40
PER SCHOLAR HERE
If He Is Attending High
School-Cost Per Pupil in
Abingdon Township High
School Was $l28.

A barrel or two of silver dollars
each year would be insuficicnt to
meet the annual expenses incurred In
operation Of the public schools OF
Wayne county.
That 1t takes money by the barrel
to operate the schools Is shown BY
the school financial reports which
have been nled for the fiscal year.
ending July 81. 1911. with county su-
perintendent c. o. williams Over two
hundred thousand dollars will be re-
quired for the ensuing year for opera
tive expenses
1t is in the high schools where the
most money is spent. For instance IN
the Richmond high school last year
the average cost of instruction per pu-
Pill was $47S5 and In the Arlington
township certified high school the
cost was $12S pupil. with but six
high school pupils enrolled This was
too expensive and the students OF the
Arlington High school win bs trans
ferred to either the Centerville or the
Richmond high school hereafter, %
the trustee has abandoned the high
school,
Average Cost Unknown.
The report which must be prepar.
ed in statistical form and filed with
the state superintendent Of instruc-
tion. Is SO voluminous that many of
its details have not been worked out
and consequently no definite informa-
ton is yet procurahie ~ to the aver.
age cost Of instruction par pupil.
whether n the grades or n high
school
chief expense. The total salaries paid
last year, in Wayne county amounted
to $15s.3S7.12; sixty seven male teach
ers being paid $52.04s.5O. while !
hundred and eighty two women teach
ers received a total Of $lO6, ,33S 80.
The average daily expense In tho
county for the teachers OF the fair sex
was $602.74 and while pedagugues OF
the sterner sex receive on an average
little higher salary than the women,
the average daily salaries paid to men
being $52S8.15. As Z professional
school teaching in this county has
made rapid strides and this accounts
largely for high standard Of the dis
trict, town and city schools.
It is the high school which the
authorities governing the schools In
the county have devoted great deal
of attention The fact that 20 much
money is spent on the high school
students shows more than any thing
else how important this part of pu-
pills education is regarded n the par
ents had to pay tuition In the ratio OF
the present cost per pupil there would
be much smaller attendance In the
high school
The following from the. statistical
report shows the average cost per
high school pupil during the fiscal
year just ended Clay township hixh
school at Greensboro, $s4.0l: Green
township high school at williams
burg. 5000: New Garden township
high school at Fountain City. $3.50:
Cambridge City. $4767; CenterviIle
s30.56; Dublin s5373: Hagerstown
$34; and Richmond $47.S5. The aver
age cost per pupil in the certified
high school was higher. approaching
500
| At Local High School.
In the Richmond high school there
are twelve male teachers and four
| teen women instructors The total
number of commissioned high school
teachers In the county 10 ~ men and
Is women. There IL . total Of six
teachers In the certified high schools
in the county. The Richmond high
| school instructor makes on an aver
age $5.57 per day for nine months.
| while the average daily wage paid
the Richmond grade pedagogues ID 81.
Possibly there is no public property
/ in control Of any of the respective
departments of government in the
county which is more valuable than
the school real estate, buildings, fix-
lures. apparatus. books. etc. Personal
/ property in control of the school sys-
tenn, or managed by county officials
for the benefit of the schools viii to-
tai several hundred thousand dollars.
But not considering the personal pro-
perty, only the real estate. etc. the
estimate value of this property approx
imates million. or in the exact fig-
ures of the report, $947,54O. This
property is divided mp a. follows n
regards to its estimated value: IN
/ the special school tax and $9s, ,z99 3S
Richmond $685. 900. IN the school town
corporation $4,000. and IN the fifteen
townships 1921 $40. Last year the