Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-18
ANNUAL SCHOOL REPORT
PRESENTED WITH GRAPHS
Novel Charts Indicate Educational
Conditions Throughout State
of Virginia.
COMPACT FORM GREAT SAVING
Shows White Teachers Best Paid for
County Work In Norfolk District.
or Cities Lynchburg Ranks First
i'll Compensation of Instructors.

The annual report of the Supcrin-
tendent of Public Instruction of tho
commonwealth of Virginia. Harris
Hart with accompanying documents.
was received in bulletin form at head
quarters yesterday from Davis Bottom.
Superintendent of Public Printing
The present report differs from those
.of preceding years in that former
COPIES were bound in board covers be-
according to Or. w II Smithey. sec
rotary to the State Board of Education
the present form of the report repre-
sents 4 saving of e. per cent
Graphic representation OF school
statistics appears for the first time in
an annual report. The first instance
is in showing the counties of Virginia
which had the services of a supervis-
ing industrial teacher for colored
schools during the session of l?l7-lS.
similar map shows the location OF
ierinG two years or more OF high
school work.
Qunrtilc Divisions HIndc.
Another departure is in dividing the
100 counties OF Virginia III four quar-
tiles. With a medium, line dividing the
BY this method it is shown at IA
glance the comparison OF figures in
statistics relating, for example. to the
average annual salaries paid teachers
IN different sections of the State.
Norfolk County leads the group in
the first quartile. paying white teachers
an average of s535i7. Floyd County
is at the bottom OF the fourth quartile,
with an average OF only s2o9.66.
Lynchburs. of the cities OF Virginia.
leads in the average salary paid white
salary to white teachers of s90o.0S
Richmond is fourth in the list of cities
in the first quartile, teachers in Rich
mond being paid an average of s763.Si.
"a &
LynchburE, pay better salaries than
Richmond. IL is noted.
Educntion's Costs Vary.
OF further interest is a table show
ing the cost of instruction per capita
of pupils in the 100 counties of Vir-
Ginia. This table shows that il costs
Charles City County more TO educate
its youth than any county in the State
s26.9o
Patrick and Scott are last in this
statistical table. Educat IGN is cheap in
these two counties II hgures do not
lie. for il costs Patrick County an
her boys and girls, and Scott County
cents less
Scott is conspicuously at the foot Of
the class in another page of statistics
showing the number Of pupils of school
age per teacher.
stnte and Local. Aid Shown.
Scott County teachers have an
average of seventy-hve pupils OF school
age per teacher, against twenty-two
in Prince George and Sussex Counties.
an average enrolment Of siXty-seven
pupils per teacher, against seventeen
III Charles City County. and an actual
daily attendance OF forty-ninc pupils
per teacher, against eleven in Louisa
County.
The relationship OF State and local
funds in the cities OF Virginia forms
an interesting study for the uninitia ted
in the unequal distribution OF State
funds throughout the State.
This table shows. for instance, that
only 10 per cent of the total school
revenues OF stanton come from State
funds. while 81 per cent of the reve-
nues from Hampton come from the
State treasury. Richmond uses only
T. per cent OF State funds; Norfolk,
ID; Lynchburg, Is, and Harrisonburg. II.