The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-08-04
PER CAPITA
SCHOOL COST
SIT A YEAR
Annual Report of Board Of
Education Shows Expense of
Educating 6,146 Hammond
Boys and Girls

1t costs the school city SIT per year
for each pupil in the grade schools of
Hammond and $154.01 for each student
in high school.
These figures. CLEANED from the an
nual report OF Supt. Monroe and the
board of education will doubtless sur
prise parents who are paying from
$1,000 to $4,000 a year for the expense
Of i college education for a son or
daughter.
There are eco days in the school
year in this city and the cost per day
for each pupil below the high school
is 1914 cents.
The cost per day for each high
school pupil IS II cents.
All expenses including salaries, coss
Of maintenance, interest on bonds. etc.
are included in these ngures. Nothing
is omitted except value of lands and
buildings and cost of new buildings.
TOTAL ENROLMENT 6146.
The enrolment OF the public schools
last year was GAG OF which 1852.
We're in the elementary schools and 9S4
In the high school. Sixteen colored
children attended the public schools
The schools opened last fail with an
over-draft of s7109 in the tuition fund
sources during the year. including To-
cal taxation. common school revenue.
congressional revenue, dog tax. non
resident tuition, interest on deposits
and borrowed money (the latter $685.
o00) a total OF $261,423.02. Out of this
fund s26o.7S6.13 was expended for
teachers salaries, leaving a balance at
the present time Of $636S9.
The special school fund Includes
money used for overhead expenses
such as main enance and operation OF
the school plants, support of voca-
tional schools. payment Of bonds and
interest, erection OF new buildings and
money borrowed from banks (the lat
ter $127,600). There was S156.967 81
in thl sfund at the beginning of the
year and the following expenditures
We're made:
Permanent improvements. S26,0z5.II
Supervision, $4.999 26.
Substitute and special teaching not
paid out Of tuition fund. $11.S96. s5.
Maintenance of vocational school in
Guiding part time and continuation
classes. night schools etc. $50. $50. 81.
Payment of bonds and coupons. $780,
s61 rs.
Total expenditures for all purposes
out OF special fund. s4S0.71556.
balance on hand. S202,9S5. GA
BIG BUILDING PROGRAM.
To meet the growing demands lor
ROOM the board Is at present con-
structing the kenwood school in the
kenwood district. It consists OF s,x
classrooms. gymnasium. offices, halls. !
etc, and is of the portable type Of !
construction. Units OF portable schools |
are being built at the haywood. Lin |
coin and Lafayette schools.
These three additions include class
rooms and gynnasiums.
The most ambitious, however. ia the
additions and alterations Of the indus
trial high school building which with
cost of equipment will represent an
expenditure Of 100000 to be met bv a
pond issue now being arranged. The
total cost OF the portable schools is
S6o'ooo, making the building program
Of the year in excess Of half a million +
dollars.
TO BE FINEST IN REGION.
When the Industrial high school /
building IS complete it will be the an- Il
est school plant in northern Indiana Il
The chief disappointment Of the wear
10 the board was that it could not find II
a buyer Tor the Central school proper
~ The Central school building was
70 nave oeen moved to d site Arcade
purchased on Russell street ana "
would have been converted into "a va.
cational training building where IN
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