The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-01-22
STATESCH00LS
COST ANNUALLY
81 ,716,41'|6.65
Compilation of Reports for State
Places Average Tax at
... 6.34 Mills -.
TRANSPORTATION COST
Amount for Taking Children to
and From Schools Shown
TO Mount

A remarkable increase in the
amount Of money paid out by school
districts for transportation of school
pupils Is shown in statistics compiled
In the office of the state superintend.
ent Of public instruction. The amount
increased from S560,00O 1919 to.$876,.
$3.50 in 1920, the report shows a to
tai Of 21,153 pupils being transported
to and from school,
A growth In the number of consOli.
dated schools, to and from which most
pupils are transported, is shown
Twenty-eight were added in 1920, the
total in the state being 457. There
were 4,751 one-room school houses in
the state,
The figures show that the total wa!
ges Of school teachers amounted to
$6,23S,154.79 in the fiscal year. OF
this amount $5,232,571.83 was paid to
women teachers and $1,0O5,5S2.96 to
men teachers.
The average salary paid>to teachers
is shown to be $4,000, the average for
women teachers being $86.05 and men
teachers $4,000. Kindergarten teach
ers are the best paid class Of teachers
in the common branches or below, the
average monthly salary for them be-
Ing $12516. The average monthly sal.
aries of teachers in cne-room school
houses is $3.50. OF this number 69
are college graduates, 267 are normal
school graduates and 2,S16 are high
school graduates only.
North Dakotas investment in schoo!
property totals $25,21S,577. so, and tEe
average rate of taxation for school
purposes in the 2,035 common school
and 1875 special and independent school
districts is 6.34 mills. The expendi-
lures for school purposes in the fiscal
year ending July /, 1920, amounted to
$12,716,556.65.
Features Of Report.
Some of the important features Of
this statistical report, compiled pains
takingly from reports from school dis
tricts, follow: .....
Number common school districts
2,035; number special and independ:
ent districts, 1875; number school
houses, 5,409; number one-room
school houses, 4,571; number CONSOLE
dated school districts, 457; number
consolidated school districts estab-
lished in 1920, %; number consolidat-
ed schools located in open country.
181. -. rs ~
n~4 ne
enrolled, Al, 5S6; number girls en-
rolled, 37.SSS, a total of 79,474 Aver
age daily attendance, 81, 1872; percent
'of attendance, 74.S; average length of
term in days, 1856; total number pu-
pills completing eighth grade in one
room schools. 1882; number teachers
in one-room schools, 4,723; average
monthly salaries, $3.50; number OF
teachers in one-room schools who are
high school graduates only, 2,S16;
number teachers who are normal
school graduates, 267; college grad
yates, 50.
Graded schools located in high
schools-number sos; number Of boys
enrolled 39,163; girls, 41,898; num-
ber completing eighth grade, Abs;
number doing high school work, 49,
1913; number completing high school
work, 1,845; average daily attendance,
6O,375; percentage, 83; average length
Of term l78 days: number teachers, 81
O33; average salaries, $102.32 per
month; number teachers high school
graduates only 657; number normal
school graduates 1,513; number col
lege graduates, 7O9.
School Libraries.
School ibraries-Number school
libraries, 4,447; total number of books
761,193; number of districts in which
free text books are furnished, 1881;
cost $15S,S83.43.
Night schools-Number, Al; number
men teachers, Al; number women
teachers, 70. Number pupils enrolled.
2,1O2;. total cost, $5,992.36. \
Public Observation-Disclosures, Z;
teachers, 9; pupils, 377; average
monthly salary teachers, $125.16
Graded schools located in open
country.-number, 1872; number boys
enrolled, 4,S1O; number girls enrolled
4,423; number completing eighth
grade, COG; number doing high school
work, $685. number completing four
wear high school course, s; average
daily attendance, 7,076; percentage,
70: average length Of term in days
IT'S: number of teachers, 424; aver
age monthly salary, $9S; number Of
teachers high school graduates only.
1872: number normal school graduates
III: number college graduates, Is.
For entire state-Total enrolled pu-
nils, 1927; boys, S4,707; girls, S3'-
$40. Average daily attendance, 121'-
1856: percentage, SO; total number OF
children of school age, 203,S57; num-
ber deaf and dumb children 81; num-
ber~ blind children, 80; number feeble
minded, 1856; total number OF teach
ers, $3.50; total number men teachers
1,4O4; women, 1862 Average monthly
wages, men teachers S116.0O; women
$S6O5; all, $4,000.
Financial-Total amount bonds out
standing July /, 1919, $500, 47O.S4;
issues during year., s92S,165.OO; total
Indebtedness, June 80, 1919, $685.
1854; total redeemed during year,
s39O,5S3.4S; total outstanding, July l,
1920, $6,S6S,O52S6.
Total Cost Shown.
Amount of money in sinking funds
July 1, 1920, $1,431,1S7.44. Average
cost tuition per month per pupil en-
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