The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-09
REPORT COMPARES
SCHOOL COSTS.
NGE- COMMITTEE MAKES
COMPARATIVE REPORT OF
RANGE AND STATE
SCHOOLS.

Information regarding the school
districts of Minnesota having over
500 population, and relating to mat
tiers of taxation and educational ex-
penses have been prepared and tab
ulated by the Range Committee of
Seven" which has just made it's re-
port.
This committee has been busy for
months gathering data for the re-
port which will be of inestimable
value both to school boards, legislat-
i've bodies and individuals who are
seeking information regarding the
schools of the state and range"
Among other items of interest is
the comparison of the relation of
the bonded Indebtedness to the cost
of buildings. The state bonded in
debtedness exceeds the valuation of
buildings by 20 per cent The
range bonded indebtedness is 25 per
cent of the valuation of the build
ings.
The composite tax rate for the
range is 21.69 mills as compared
with the composite rate of 21.79
mills for the state, without includ-
ing Minneapolis which is 1876 mills.
The average tax for the range is
36.7 mills compared with the aver
age tax of the state of 36.43 mills.
The total assessed vaulation of
the range is large part of the
total assessed valuation of the state.
The state valuation is 1928, 1000, 900
and that of the range 1901 200, 900.
The total levy for the state is ST.
100000 while the total levy for the
range is $6,500,00O.
The population of the state is
$4,000: The day school popula-
ton of the. state is $4,000, and
the night school population, IL, $40.
The population of the range is
$4,000. The day school population
OF the range is $4,000, and the
night school population is 5000.
lation in the day school of the state
is only 1853, while the percentage of
the total population in the day
schools of the range is .3Ol.
The still more interesting COM
parison includes the night school
population. The percentage of the
total population in the day and
night schools of the state is 49,
while the percentage in the day and
night schools of the range is .3O1.
Per capita day school enrolment.
the total expense of 1920 for the
state, was 1881, while the total ex-
pense for the range was 1922.
Under the same heading, but in
Guiding the night school enrolment
IN each case the figures are: State,
is 26l:1O, while for the range it is
220. Under the same head and in
Guiding the night schools the figures
are, state, 242; range, 1873.
Inc per capita valuation of build
ings, the Eighth district not being
ported for the state is $3.50; for
the range, with the same commission,
it is $500.
The above figures relate to tax s.
Other interesting items are given in
the survey.
For example it is shown that in
the state the percentage of litter
ates is 1.8, while in Hibbing, the
percentage mounts to TT. In Vir-
ginla the percentage is "A which is
somewhat larger than the percent
age for st. Louis county, which is
Al.
The percentage of foreign born in
the state is 20.4, for Hibbing, $3.50;
for Virginia, 34.4 and for the county
$40.
In Chisholm there are 17.8 per
cent of the adult population in
school. The figures for Bull are 26
per cent and for Nashwauk, 1913.
The bonded Indebtedness for the
state is $31, 880,475, for the range,
$6,397.OOO.
The per capita total enrolment
of the range is 1877 compared with
the state per capita enrolment of
134.
Other facts to which attention is
called in the report cannot be given
in statistical form. For example the
oldest range district is only rs
years old. twenty-five years ago
the older communities of the state
were well provided with school build
ings and equipment. That is, in
a consideration Of school expendit-
ures of the range it must be re-
membered that the range has had
to start from the beginning at a