The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-02-16
Amount received from collection Of
7-mill tax, $27,672.47.

amount received IrOm cOlleCJlOu OI
7-mill tax, $27,67247.
Amount received from sub-school
district, 3-mill tax. $S30027.
Amount received from capitation or
poll taxes. $SO7O.45.
Amount received from other sourc-
es. $1576.76.
Amount received from examination
fees and tuition, $6S.
Amount received from fines under
penalty provision, $6666.
Amount received from tax redemp-
tions, $177S.60.
Making a total revenue for the
county of $51,O54.69.
The number of schools in the coun-
ty is 11S, of which SO are for the
whites and 40 for the colored.
The number of pupils enrolled dur
ing the year 191O-1911 was: White,
1886; colored, 3SS9-a total of 6274;
the average attendance for the white
pupils being 1900, and of the colored
being 249S.
The number of white teachers in
the county for that year was 81, and
the number of colored was 62, or a to-
tai number of teachers of 156.
The expenses of the county in the
support and maintenance of the
schools for the scholastic year 1910
1911, was $52,54S.51. The average
cost per pupil to the county, based
upon enrolment, was $S.3S; based
upon average attendance of pupils,
was $12.53. July LIST, 1911, there was
to the credit of the county school
fund $2732.45, against which there
were outstanding warrants to the
amount of $7S33.96, which includes
sub-school district Indebtedness.
Sub-School District Number One
We come now to a consideration of
the conditions in our home district:
The assessed valuation of real es-
tate in sub-school district number l.,
for the year 1911, is $S53,960.
The assessed valuation of personal
property in sub-school district num-
Der /, for 1911, is $326,3S6.
The assessed valuation of railroad
and telegraph property in district
number l, for 1911, is $165,510.
Total assessed valuation in the dis
trict, 1911, $1.345,S56.
The above figures show that the as
sessed valuation of the property
within the limits of sub-school dis
trict number one of Marion county is
more than one-fourth of the entire
assessed valuation of the property in
the entire county. Just here let me
call your attention to the fact that
this sub-school district embraces val
liable property beyond the limits of
the city in addition to the city prop
erty, and yet the assessed valuation
of the city property by the city of
Ocala was $1,645,980 for 1911. This
district contributes to the county
school fund from the collection of
the 7-mill tax, basing our figures upon
collection of 95 per cent, of the
taxes, the sum of $8949. Basing our
calculations upon the ratio Of assess
ed valuations, the propOrtionate
share of this district in the moneys
derived by the county school fund
from other sources for the year
1910-1911 was $33S6.65. The amount
collected from the 3-mill sub-school
district tax, which must be devoted
exclusively. to the schools within this
district, for the year 1910-1911, was
s3226.14. If the one-fourth ratio des-
ignated above governed then this
districts revenue should be about
$15,552.19. With figures practically
the same as the above this district
received from the county, including
it's special tax, the sum of $11,S45.66,
and S602.53 interest on sub-school dis
trict Indebtedness.
The average attendance in this dis
trict exceeds the average attendance
in the county as whole. Therefore,
if average attendance controlled the
county board in it's distribution of the
county school fund, the figures would
be larger. I am not here to say that
this sub-school district is entitled to
more of the county school funds than
it has been receiving. 1t is probable
| that the funds are being used as
wisely and distributed as justly as
they can be, and l believe that the
present county school board is COM
posed of men who are trying to do
what they think best for the interests
of the schools of the county. l am
merely quoting the statistics, and am
willing to let them argue this phase
of the question.
| There are three school buildings in
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