Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-13
COUNTY SCHOOLS
GIVE EXCELLENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Youth of Rural Sections
Provided with Unusual
Advantages.
23.676 CHILDREN
SCHOLASTIC AGE
Report of County superintendent
Lowe Shows Receipts Last Year OF
&l75.511. and Disbursements
vi S157.720.


nual report for the state school au-
thorties, and the report contains a
mass of information relative to the
schools of Pine Bluff and jefferson
county, which indicates plainly that |
this county and city are not neglecting
in any way, the education Of the chill
dren, either white or black.
The scholastic population of the
county this year is 23,676, an increase
of about $50 more than last year. The
children are divided as follows:
While males, 1928; white females,
1903; total whites, 5,726. Colored
males S,817; colored females, 9,133;
total colored, 1850.
Of the school population, the ag
gregate enrolment is 1851, divided
as follows:
White males, 1858; white females,
1908; total white enrolment, 1856.
Colored males, 5,201; colored females,
1864; total colored enrolment, 10,765.
The average daily attendance at the
schools is reported as follows:
White males, 1850; white females,
| 1,537; total white average attendance,
3,O97. Colored males, 1914; colored
females, 4,031; total colored average
attendance, 1916. Aggregate average
attendance, 1882. Thus it is shown
that the average attendance is con-
siderably below the number of chill
dren accounted for in the county, and
also considerably below the actual en-
rollment. There are 271 children who
are attending private schools.
Treat Rural Children Well.
In general way, the report shows
that the children of the rural schools
are given equal opportunities with the
children Of the city. During the year.
the Dollarway school erected 81 900
addition and installed new sanitary
furniture, the first of this particular.
kind, perhaps, in the state. The Wat
son Chapel school added a teacherage,
the first institution of this nature in
the county. There are eight or ten
new school buildings being erected in
the county, while repairs Of consider
able magnitude have been completed
already on score or more Of the
older buildings.
Wabbaseka, with a $4,000 modern
building, has 35 pupils and three
teachers, and music is included in it's
curriculum.
Altheimer, with a $4,000 building,
opened during the last term, has about
40 pupils, four teachers, and its cur
riculum includes domestic science and
both vocal and instrumental music.
Humphrey, with 80 pupils and four
teachers; Sheriff. and Tucker, with
80 pupils and two teachers each: Wat
son Chapel, Union, Redfield: Jeffer-
son Springs, are all thoroughly up-to-
to city schools anywhere, each includ
! .xc. alec tho bir1 cohnnI n
greater or less degree.
1928 School Buildings.
There are in all 1913 school buildings
| in the county, with 26S rooms. The
aggregate value of the buildings is
placed at $458,45O, the furniture is es-
| timated to be worth $94,670, and the
| aggregate value of buildings and
| furniture is placed at $553,120.
There were 307 teachers employed
in the county last year, 20 white men.
| 1902 white women, 48 negro men and
1913 negro women. Average salaries
caid the teachers were: Grade No. 1,
men $s3, women S57; Grade No. 2,
| men SAT, women Sal; Grade No. 3,
men $42, women $36.
In one special school district, White
hall, there are So white children and
| no negroes. In district No. z, there
are only nine white children of school
age, and 1875 negro children. In the
! Altheimer district, there are Sc white
children of school age. and 2,026 negro
children. In district No. 25. there are
no white children of school age, and
So negro children.
Finances Promise Well.
The expectation is that approx
mately So for each child of school age
will be received by the schools of this
county, from the state apportionment
| in September, which will bring in
about $4,000 or $51 900.
| Receipts last year aggregated $780,
521 sc, from the following sources:
state. $49.552.8S; district taxes, $780,
449.95; other sources, $1,023.31.
Disbursements were $157, .04 and
the balance on hand was $17,SO1. II,
against balance at the start OF the
year of $1S,495.O2. The disbursements
were divided as follows:
Teachers s1O7,204.32; buildings,
etc., $46.439.21; treasurer's commits
sion $4,076.51.
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