Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-11
millions FOR
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Cost California Over Twenty
five and 0ne-half Millions
During Last Year
EACH PUPIL IN SCHOOL
MEANS $17.35 EXPENSE
Education of Nearly HAHN
lion Children Causes a Big
lump in Expenditures
[By Latest MALL

SACRAMENTO. - California spent
|$25,554,919 for the education OF 447,-
0l6 children who attended the public
schools of the state during the fiscal
year, which ended June 80, 1918. This
sum represents an increase over 1912
Of $1.576, 29S.77, and is exclusive of ap-
proximately 100000 expended for
State Normal schools and the UniVer-
sity of California.
The figures were announced today
by Job Wood, Jr., statistician in State
Superintendent Hyatt's office. The
money was spent as follows:
Elementary schools-Teachers' sal
aries, $10,694, 70S.07; supplies. $780,
616.22; buildings, $S,174,S92.79; books
and apparatus, $151,034.43; total, $17-
$50, 951.5t; increase over 1912, $440,-
$685.. +-. 70, -... r.. ~.
High sehools-Teachers' salaries,
$3,65I759; supplies, 81, 1876 ,9O6; build
ings, $2,643 1872; books and apparatus,
$13S,117; total, s7,925,946; increase
over 1912, $1,0S3,210.
kindergarten schools - Teachers
salaries, $250,594; supplies. $16,269;
PLI.IOty IOSuIS PStOBV-1g
crease over 1912, $72,566.
The total receipts for all school
purposes during the year were $751;
S73 3SS, divided as follows: Elemen-
tary schools, $21,395,45 high
schools, $10,19S,565.41; kindergartens,
$279 369.21.
Gain in Enrolment.
The total enrolment in the elemen.
tary schools for the year was 377, 943,
of which 197,S61 were boys and $780,
0S2 were girls. This represented an
enrolment gain of 20,99S over 1912. In
the high schools 5S.07S pupils we're
enrolled of which 26,S31 were boys
and 81 ,65S girls. This was an increase
of 1868 pupils In the kindergartens
1929 boys and 5466 girls were enrolled,
gain of 1882 over the previous year.
The average daily attendance in ele-
mentary schools for I'll days that
school was maintained totaled 297, 1874.
In the high school the average at
tendance for 1877 days was 42,852' and
in kindergartens 5707. ...
To teach the 447,016 children enroll
ed in the public schools last year A.
514 teachers were employed. OF this
number 1880 were women and PISA
were men,. .~t - ....s..' : ..,...s
In high school instruction 2644
teachers were enlisted. of which 1895
were women and 1049 men. In the
elementary schools the number of
teachers was 11,55S. of which 10,468
were women and 1885 were men. All
of the 317 kindergarten teachers were
women.
Wooden Schools Predominant.
Wooden school buildings still pre-
dominate in California. OF the 1858
high schools III are built of wood, So
of brick. AZ of concrete and eight of
stone Of the 1878 elementary school
buildings 1927 are wooden 25S are
brick. 63 are concrete and % stone
Forty-seven kindergarten structures
are wooden and four are brick.
The total valuation of public school
pronerty in California is $62,969, 5"3,
divided as follows: -
Elementary schools - Lots and
school buildings, $43.594 .43S: libraries,
5000. 461; apparatus. S600,301.
High schools-Lots and buildings,
s16.662,546: libraries, $3S6,795; Iabora.
tories. $536,260.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and buildings,
$186. 1886; books aud apparatus, $2I. 1873.
The cost of education per pupil on
the basis of average daily attendance
for the year was S1735.