New Ulm review., 1913-09-03
County Schools
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Supt. Kennedy Files His
19l2-l9l3 Animal Report
For County.
Institutions of Learning Evi-.
dence Advancement Un-
der His Regime.

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der His Regime.
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-four 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 it's 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 for an average of 1875:
days and the number of pupils in each
of the various age classiications was
as follows: From five to eight years.,
$50; from eight to eighteen years.
1886; from eighteen to twenty-one>
years, 27O. There are only two dis
tricts in which fewer than ten school
ars were enrolled, while fifteen dis
than ten, but less than twenty.
1t required the services of Is men
and let women teachers to impart,
instruction to the pupils in all of the
public schools in Brown County. For
this work the former received an av-
erage monthly wage of $91, and the
latters' average monthly compensa-
ton was only $5O9S. OF the total
number of teachers, 68 are graduates
of high schools, 36 of normal schools.
and 16 of colleges, while 2 teachers,
not graduates, have attended high
school, 2 a normal school and
college. Twenty-seven teachers have
continuously taught in one district
for three years, 33 for years and 81
for 1 year.
Thirty-eight school districts loan
the textbooks free to the pupils,
while 8 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 81 cents. Two new
frame school houses were erected in
Brown County during the past fiscal
year, at a total cost of $4,000. There
distributed throughout the 81 dis
tricts, of which 79 are frame, 8 are
brick and is log structure, located
in Dist. No. in the town Of Linden.
The total value of all school houses,
and sites is S272,900, while the seats:
and desks are valued at $13,785 and
the apparatus at $11,888, making u
total of $29S,573.
The total number of volumes of the
IS public school libraries in the county
is 16,959, of which 1,341 were ~ur--
chased last year. The aggregate val
ue of all libraries is $9,957 Arbor-
Day was observed by Is school dis
tricts and the pupils planted total,
of 230 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. W.
Only IA school districts are in debt.
the aggregate Indebtedness being:
$62,765. The indebtedness of the
high and graded school districts is
$4,000, and of the semi-graded and
rural districts $10,765. In these are.
included of the former and II Of
the latter districts. The hign and
graded school terms were Of an av--
erage of nine and one-fourth months:
duration, while the terms in the semi
average of about seven and three
fourths months. A slight average in
crease has been voted for the year
of 1913-14. The annual school meet
ings were attended by an average
of about IA voters, and the average:
rate of special tax voted for the year
ending July 81, 1912, was about q
mills.
Of the total enrolment Of 4,O63,.
1880 pupils attend the high and grad
ed schools, while the other 2,37S schol--
ars receive their instruction in the
semi-graded and rural districts. Un--
der the former classification are the
Independent districts of New Ulm,
Sleepy Eye and Springfield and the
graded school at Comfrey. The semi
graded schools are located at Evan,
Golden and Hanska, while the ~ rur--
al schools are scattered throughout.
the various townships. The state ap-
preparation was divided among 1897
pupils in the high and graded schools
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