The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-03-03
CECIL COUNTY SCHOOLS.
Some Interesting Data Compiled BY
Superintendent.


Statistics compiled by Superin-
tendent Hugh w. Caldwell show
there are IS schools in Cecil county,
white and colored A conservative
valuation of the schools, school
grounds and equipment is $350,OO0.
The total cost of the schools for
| 192O-1921 was $194,515.12. The
total enrolment of pupils was 4.S02.
The per capita cost for each pupil
was, therefore, about $4,000. Each
high school pupil cost $97.84, white
elementary 1924, colored elemen-
tary $25.25. The figures for Cecil
County should be contrasted with
Baltimore County. which leads Cecil
County in the Ayres' list. In Balti
more County each high school pupil
cost $100.75, each white elementary
pupil $40.39, and each colOred pupil
5000. Teachers salaries, books
and materials Of instruction cost
| $159,181.47; operation of the
schools. including coal, janitors, etc.,
cost $18,250.23; maintenance of
school plant cost $3,746,7S; the
overhead cost Of the Cecil County
schools is less than four cents out of
each dollar. The cost of overhead
expenses in the State ranges from
three to thirteen cents out of each
dollar.
According to provisions of the
Maryland School Law. all high
school teachers are required to be
graduates of approved colleges, and
principals of first group high schools
are required to have had year Of
graduate work. Including high
school teachers, Cecil County has
1853 teachers; % or 1870 are high
school teachers; 81 or 24% are first
grade teachers, normal graduates or
equivalent; "a or 42% are second
grade teachers, high school grad
yates or equivalent; and IA or go
are third grade teachers. The law
permits the appointment of provis-
ional teachers if regularly qualified
teachers are not available. The
provisional teachers this year num-
Der or about 80. The goal to-
wards which the county is striving is
to place a first grade teacher or the
equivalent in each teaching position
in the county.
The County School Board favors
consolidation Of schools; consolida-
ton usually means first, the giving
up of an ungraded school for a
graded one; second, creating a bet
ter social and educational spirit, and
third, giving better quality of edu-
cation. During the past six years
schools have been consolidated in
Cecil County by closing sixteen of
the smaller schools. The average
cost OF small school is about ST.
200. so the closing Of these sixteen
small schools saved the taxpayers
$4,000, less $1.750 paid for trans
portation, or a net annual saving of |
$17.250. The schools closed are as |
follows:
First District-Branch College,
Wards Hill.
Second District-St. Augustine, |
Back Creek Neck.
Third District-Pierson's Grove,
wilma.
Fourth District-Barksdale, Cen
tire.
Fifth District-Carpenter's Point. |
Sixth District-Pleasant Meadows,
Franklin, Monroe.
Seventh District-Franklin, Canal |
Colored.
Ninth District. Rose Bank, Cal
vert Colored.
The Whiteoak school is now used
as colored school for the Calvert
district. The former colored school
IN the Calvert district was in bad
condition; consequently it means q
saving to the Taxpayers of the county
to use the Whiteoak school for