New Britain herald., 1926-05-19
NEW FIGURES SHOW COST
 OF SCHOOL PUPILS

division of the National Education Association. Having been obtained in January 1926, the figures Of the association refer to later conditions.
 The states figures, it will be re- membered, gave the senior high school cost per pupil in this city as $195.59 each. The N, E. A. figures show a slight decrease, the cost per pupil being given as s192.62 each, or approximately s3 less than during the previous year.
 For this decrease there will be some public thanks when 1t is con sidered that New Britain's high school costs per pupil, compared with the costs of elementary school pupils, show the highest ratio of any of the 27 cities from which data was obtained by the N. r. A. Also will there be thanks when it is learned that New Britain has the third highest costs of any of the 27 cities investigated, only Mont clair. N. J., with a high school pupil cost of s2O3.42 each, and Pittsburgh, with cost of $t93.25, being higher.
 The comparative elementary costs between senior high school pupils and elementary school pupils indicate a considerable margin in New Britain over most other cities; and in none is the disparity as great. New Britain certainly is do- ing well by its high school com pared with what it spends for the others. For instance, regarding the ratio of per pupil costs in the elc- mentary schools with the index figure 100, the cost per pupil in our high schools has an index fig ure of 2.9S.
 Whereas Montclair, N. J. ex- pends about $11 more per high school pupil than New Britain, it's index figure for such pupils (com- pared with the expenditure for elementary pupils) is only 1,6S. Only Philadelphia remotely ap- breaches New Britains disparity between high school and elementary school costs per pupil. the Pennsyl- vania metropolis having an index figure of 2.56. Most of the other index figures are below 200.
 From this it can be judged that the per capita cost of elementary pupils in this city must be low, and this supposition is not far fetched when one considers the figures for the 27 cities. The day elementary school cost per pupil in New Britain is given as $64.54; only six cities out of the 27 in vcstigatcd have lower elementary costs. Still, there remain many ob- serving citizens in New Britain who are willing 10 complain re- garding the costs of the public school system, due largely to the expensive building program ne- cossitated by the demands of the times The bulk of public education being dispensed is in the fl eIe- mcntary schools, and as the cost per pupil is so low one is hard put to quibble about the expense. The expense in toto may seem large compared with the olden days, but compared with a host of other cities we arc considerably below the average. We are either getting great deal for our school money or we are not spending enough; the former probably will be the popu- lar view upon analysis of compara- tive costs.
 When We reach junior high school costs, New Britain takes a husky jump upward, the cost per pupil being $11O.3S, an increase of T per cent over elementary costs. This cost places New Britain well in the average class of the cities investigated, some arc much high CT others much lower, The average Of all the cities is $111.9A
 The comparative figures showing Now Britam's elementary costs be- irg below the average. (s64.54 com pared with $76.S7), the junior high school costs being close to the aver age as previously stated, and the high school costs far above the average, @192.62 compared with Sl4219), ii behooyes that some thing he done about the latter fig ures within a reasonable time. Ii is inc duty Of tho board Of education 10 make an attempt 10 bring down thc cost Of high school tutoring per pupil
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