Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-11
0TER0 COUNTY
HAS HIGH RANK
IN EDUCATION
Annual Report to State Off,
Gals Shows Schools in Ex-
CeIIent Condition and Doing
a Splendid Work.

isFtN'NA TO MORNING JOURNAL
Santa Fe, Jan. t0.-Oteros fine
showing educationally among the
twenty-siX counties of the state, is
brought out by the annual report to
the department of education made
public today The county has twenty
six districts of which sixteen have one
building each, eight have two build
inss one has three buildings, and one
has four Twelve have one room, nine
| have two, two have three each, one
has four, one has eight and one has
fifteen rooms. OF the thirty-nine
buildings. twenty-seven have one room
each, eight have two, one has three,
one has four and two have six All
buildings except four are owned, six
are in excellent condition, ten good,
sixteen fair. six poor two are of
brick, eight adobe, one frame and
adobe, five cement block, two white
sand, two log and nineteen frame OF
the four buildings in Alamogordo two
have six rooms, one has two and one
has one room.
Property Values.
Otero county has school property to
the value of s9O,145.25 of which $47,-
800 is in Alamogordo. The school
sites are worth S9,250, Alamogordo.
$40 buildings, $71,61S. Alamogor-
do, $3S,900; furnishings and equip
mcnt, $6,975, Alamogordo, $1,000;
twenty-one school libraries 1881 vol
umes, 81 ,407.25, Alamogordo, CPS vol
umes, $3.50; industrial equipment,
$685., Aamogordo, 500. Otero coun-
ty spent last year $45,S24S9 on its
schools Of which $16,00771 was ex-
pended in Alamogordo. The receipts
We're $40, 1897 55, Alamogordo. $15,94s.-
o. special levies, $20,S04.19, Alamo
gordo, $5,931.30; county high school
levy S5,77f.40; poll tax, $997.36; Ala
mogordo, $169.92; saloon licenses,
$9S1.S6, Alamogordo, 1854; from
state apportionment, $11,166.3O, Ala
mogordo, $3,64S; state aid, $39269. /
OF the expenditures, $40, 59910 went
for teachers salaries, $7,41S.S5 in Al |
county high school, S4,024.- |
49, all in AlamogOrdo; rent $50; fuel, I
$659.0S; ianitors' wages, $1403. Sc. /
$711.36; school supplies, |
81 ,064.79, Alamogordo, $793.S2, books |
for needy children, $3.50. repairs and |
improvements, $1,207.41, Alamogordo, |
$242.50; collecting poll tax. $l427oi /
interest on bonds, $3,S29.1l; Alamo |
gordo. $2,226.66; insurance, $12S; in I
terest on warrants, S1s5.62, Alamo |
gordo, $91.SS; miscellaneous, $372.14, |
Alamogordo, $1SS.40.
Census, Enrolment and Attendance.
Otero county has 1870 persons be- I
tween the ages of and II, Alamogor-
do S32; the enrolment is 1877, Ala
6S1: average daily attend
ance, 1888, Alamogordo, SIS. The en-
mary, 210, Alamogordo. AZ; first, 1926,
100; second, 2SS; Ala
"a; third, 1877, Ala
81; fourth, 257; Alamo
gordo, IL fifth. 1893. Alamogordo, 62;
sixth, ISL, Alamogordo, As; seventh,
11S, Alamogordo. AZ; eighth, H. Ala
81; ninth, SIS, Alamogordo,
So; tenth, Al: Alamogordo, 30; elev-
enth, u, Alamosordo, 1S twelfth, IA,
all in AlamOBOfdO.
There are sixty-two teachers in the
county, FIFTEEN being at Alamogordo.
Of the teachers are men, two
of them in Alamogordo eight held
professional life certificates, one
five-year professional; thirty-nlne a
first grade. twelve second grade and
only one a third grade and one per-
init. In Alamogordo, all were either
first grade, eleven, or held life ceftif-
icates. four. no second or third grade
being employed. The month
" salaries ranged from $40 to $l00,
not including the superintendent of ,
the Alamogordo schools, who drew :
$3.50 a month. The average annual
salary for all teachers was $549.39,
men averaging $667.02, and women ;
s529.3g; the superintendent at Ala
mogordo drew $1,350, two teachers re- {
ceived $50, three $500, one S125 live I
$500, one $3.50, three 1915, one $652.- +,
80, one 500, five $500, four $500, I
three s5S5, one $5S1.25, four $500, {
three $500, two $525, one $49O. one
$3.50, five $420, one $500, one $3.50
33, one 1850, two S3bV, three @"V''
one $3.50, two $275, two $40, one I
$3.50, and one $12O. 4
The average number of months I
taught per teacher was 7.6S for the
whole county and 1922 months LOT
districts outside of Alamogordo, TWen- I
" teachers taught nine months nine
teen eight months, one seven anu
months. twelve seven
months. five six months one five ana
ne-half months. one five months
one four months and two three
months each. II