New Ulm review., 1913-09-03
County I :. Schools
Show Progress.
Supt. Kennedy Files His
1912 1913 Animal Report
For County.


dence Advancement I'm
~.
ger his Regime.
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County Superintendent r. B. Ken
nedy has just completed his annual
report to the State Superintendent
of Education relative to the high,
graded, semi-graded and rural schools.
in the eighty-f0ur districts of Brown
County for the fiscal year ending.
July 81, 1913. The document is com
plete in every detail and represents
many hours Of careful and pains
taking work in its execution. In the.
report, the high and graded schools
are embodied under one heading, while.
the other includes the semi-graded
and rural schools. The total Of these
two divisions are then added together
to make the grand totals.
According to Mr.. Kennedy's figures,
the total enrolment in all public;
schools Of the county aggregates
4,O63, while the number Of pupils en-
titled to share in the state apportion--
ment is 3,719. Three hundred and
forty-four pupils did not attend school
the required forty days TO receive.
money from the state. Each pupil.
ATTENDED school Tor an average OF l26
Gays ana the number OF pupils IN each
OF the various age classifications Was
as 1ol!oWs: From nve 70 eight years.
95O; from eight to eighteen years.
1856; from eighteen to twenty-one.
years, NV; Ihere are only two dis
trlcts IN wnlch fewer than ten school
ars were enroiIed, wniie nlteen dls-
trlcts IN which fewer than ten schol-
than ten, but less than twenty.
lt required the services OF 10 mem
:.Ed ~ women teachers to lmpart.
instruction to the pupils in all OF the
publlc schools IN brown County For
TINS work the former received an av-
erage monthly wage OF $9l, and the
iatters average monthly compensa-
ton was only $5O.9o. VI the total
number OF teachers, 6S are graduates.
OF high schools, S6 Of normal schools.
ana 10 OF colleges, while 2 teachers;
not graduates, nave attended high
school, z normal school and q
college. Twenty-seven teachers have
continuously taught in one district
for three years, 80 for 2 years and 81
for l year.
Thirty eight school districts loan
the textbooks free to the pupils,
while districts sell the textbooks
to the pupils at cost. The average
cost Of these books in the districts
loaning them is 43 cents per pupil.
while in districts selling them, the.
average cost per pupil for the ne
cessary books is 62 cents. Two new
frame school houses were erected in
Brown County during the past fiscal
year, at total cost Of $4,000. There
are now total of 80 school houses:
distributed throughout the "a dis
tricts, of which 70 are frame, are.
brick and is log structure, located
in Dist. No. z in the town Of Linden
The total value of all school houses.
and sites is $272,9O0, while the seats:
and desks are valued at $13,785 and
the apparatus at $11, 1888, making a.
total of $298,573.
The total number of volumes of the,
78 public school libraries in the county
is 16,959, of which 1,341 were ,ur--
SAAs&SSA Ioov ySoA. = lac 0SSACSoSC vol
ue OF all libraries is '$9,957. Arbor'
Day was observed by Is school dis
tricts and the pupils planted q total
of 23O trees on the school sites that.
day. Tree planting should be more.
generally practiced by the teachers
and pupils in Brown County, as 35.
school houses have no trees about.
them, while only 8 stand in natural
groves. A literal observance of Ar
Dor Day would certainly inure to the.
benefit Of the schools each year.
Only IA school districts are in debit
the aggregate indebtedness being:
S62,765. The indebtedness of the
high and graded school districts is;
s52, 900, and of the semi-graded and
rural districts $1O,765. In these are,
included of the former and II of
Ihe iatter diStrlcts. Inc nlSn and