Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-08
GALLUP SCHOOL
SYSTEM RAISES
COUNTY AVERAGE
Good Showing Made as Com
pared With the Richer and
More PopuIous Communities
Of the Sunshine States,

$3.50
ESPECIAL coHsfsPohptncg 70 noEhNo iouRNAN
santa Ne. Jan. 5,---SickinloN county
makes an excellent showing In an od-
ucational way, as compared With
many more populous and richer ceun-
ties This is due "a Gallup's excel
lent school system, in many respects,
as outside Of Gallhp there are only
eleven school districts and tonr of
these are now. One district has three
buildings, three districts have two
buildings and two districts one build
ing. one distrcNhad fifteen rooms,
one had six rooms two had two rooms
and two had one room There are
thirteen school BUILDINGS, two of them
in Gallup outside of Gallup one
building had three rooms one hulld-
ing two rooms and nine buildings
one room each Five buildings were
owned, two used huildugs free Of
charge and sis paid rent. from 81 to
,Sts.50 per month. Three buildings
were excellent, six in good condition
ana four fair Three were Of hrich
one of stone. one Of logs and eight
frame
The total value of the school prop
crty IN the county Is S61.lao, of which
lSf3,20o must be- credited Go Gallup;
school sltos were worth Sa,l21. Cal.
imp, S.. GOO. buildings, S4t,5oo. Gallup.
$50. 500: equipment. $500, Gallup,
/ $4,000: libraries. ESQ volumes, Sofa,
lGalhp 300 volumes. S500, Industrial
icmlpmcnt. $1,000. all IN Gallup.
There Is only one woman on the Me-
/ kinlcy county boards OF education
Expenditures and Receipts.
! Mckinley county last year spent
$46,8a9.2S on it's public schools Of
which SSA,l4l,51 was expended m
lGalup. For teachers salaries, $780,
6S5.3f were expended in Gallup
isf2.GiS.GG, for rent, $t2SlS fuel
s59l.20. Gallup. S397t5 ianitors
wages. $1,96A50. Gallup, Sh21o
school supplies, $2.16I2l, books foi
NEEDY children. 81; repairs and I'M
iprovements, S1SG.1S; new buildings
grounds, furniture. $1t,49G,GS, col
llcctmg poll tax, sll.60, Gallup. $40.
10. interest on bonds, S2,A30, Gallup
1880; payment on bonds. $2,002.lo
all by Gallup, transportation of pa
pills. $297.50. in Gallup: insurance
S54S11, in Gallup, miscellaneous
S9,b36.11, of which s9,io3.4l was II
Gallup
OF the receipts Of Sl5,27S.Ss. thu
sum Of $35, 256.5" is credited to Gal
lup The special levios yielded
$8,o47.6S, Gallup, $5,4S0.oS; count,
high school levy, s5.053.20i poi tax
's1ISS.44, Gallup, $G7i; saloon license
$5.T75.S6. Gallup, $5,46s.l6' fines
$3.50, Gallup, $500; state appor
tionmonts, $te,7aT9l, Gallup, s6,l31'
50; interest ON funds, Gallup, Sa2.al
Insurance adjustment. $l2,010.9l, II
Gallup; miscellaneous, Silt Gallup
$3.50
Teachers aud Terms.
Mckinley county has twenty-eigh
teachers but one man taught ONLY
nine days There are four meI
teachers: one teacher held life pro
fessional, three had three or five
wear professional certificates, nineteef
first Grade. four second grade and one
a permit. In other words, Mckinney
ieounty employs not single thlrd
grade teacher
The monthly salaries in conse-
lquoncc were quite high, ranging IRON
so TO S22222 The annual average
was $7fs.66, men averaging $l,1.fSO
women, $GG5.59 The Gallup super
Iinlcndent received $4,000, one teacher
received $1,1OO. four received $50
three received s765. two $500. seven
$675. one SSS75O, one SEAS.
In Gallup the school term wac nine
months In the other districts, thu
average WIS SOC months. For thu
whole county eighteen teachers taught
nine months, two eight and one-hali
months, one taught eight and one
Iduarter months, one eight months
two taught seven months, one laugh
four and one-quarter months and tive
taught three and one-half months.
Outside Of the Navajos Of whom
There are several thousand Mckinley
county had 1,G0S persons between thu
ages Of 6 and q years, Gallup S64
or these, LII were enrolled in th'
public schools, GA in Gallup. The
average daily attendance was no
iGallup, 33s. The enrolment by grades
was as follows: Kindergarten, 1874
Gallup, ~; Primary, l24,, Gallup, 10,
first, IA, Gallup, n, second. 100
Gallup, 81: third, 1870, Gallup. sc
fourth. 1923, Gallup, 72 firth, 66, Gal.
lnp. II; sixth, So, Gallup, az seventh
1874, Gallup, 2G; eighth, IS, Gallup, 81