The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
This Was Cost to Topeka for
1915-16 Education.
Report Shows Army of S,3SS at
$4,000 Expense.
HIGH SCHOOL MOST COSTLY
Saving in Grades Kept Down
Operating Demands.
And-Listen, Kids-Only 800
Cases of Hockey in Year.

1t cost Topeka s2e1.s14 to send its
army of S.3SS children to school the
last year, according to the annual re-
port of the Topeka school board to the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton.
The school army was commanded by
a staff of 242 teacherS-an average of
one to thirty-four pupils. The army
also attended school for d total of
1,060,11S days.
Showing that the policy of the
school board is to employ only the
best instructors for the school children
is the statement in the report that not
one teacher was hired the past year
who could not show record of pre-
vious experience.
Showing also that Topeka teachers
are not underpaid is the statement of
the average salaries for the different
classes of teachers. The average an
nual salary of grade school principals
is s1,2S1; average monthly salary OF
high school teachers. men, $I36.21,
women, s113.41: average me- nthly sal
airy of grade teachers, men, S93.33;
women, 1888.
Many College Graduates.
The report shows an unusually
large percentage of college or normal
| school graduates among Topeka
teachers On the high school force
fifty-one who had not completed a
college course. Among the 191 grade
teachers, 104 were graduates of a col
lege or normal school, sixteen more
had gone two or more years to college
and only forty-six had progressed nc
farther than completed high school
| course.
Topeka school property is valued al
$1,037,41S. There are rs school
buildings with PAL school rooms. The
school furniture and apparatus is val
ued at s69,1O3. The total current ex.
pense for the year of $291.914 is $3.50
| less than last years total of $292,734
Cost Per Pupil.
! The average cost of tuition for the
| individual pupil in the grades was
s34S per month as against s3.51 last
year In the high school. however
the cost of individual tuition has in
creased to S6.2S per month for each
pupil as against $3.50 last year.
No More Hockey Records.
Playing hockey is a pastime that
| is rapidly dying away, according to
the report. Last year Edward Rooney
truancy officer, placed 800 offenders
| back in school. While the complete
repor- this detail is not in. it is
undo d that there is hardly hall
that l,.nber of offenders this year.
The high school graduated PAL stu
dents this year as against 231 last
year. The report shows that the
high school in the forty-three years
Of its history has graduated 3,706.
A slump in the number of grade
| school graduates from 487 of last veal
to 203 this year is explained by the
| fact that the two new junior high
schools take their pupils before the
finishing of the regular grade school
| course.
| Eighty per cent of the grammar
school graduates are attending high
school this year as compared to a
per cent last year. From SO to AZ
per cent of those entering high school
graduate
One new school building, the Lin
coin Junior high school, will be
| erected this year at a cost of $69,103
There was no building done last year