The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-01-28
STATE SCHOOL PROPERTY
VALUED AT S33,623,OOO
Counties of Maryland Spend the
Largest Sum In History for
Plants and Equipment.

RANTS ana Equipment.
Maryland public school property on
last July 81 was worth S33, 623, 900,
according to an estimate by the State
Department of Education made public
recently.
Of this amount the estimated value
of property in use by white pupils
was S3O,447,0 900 and by colored pupils
S3,176,000 Property in the counties
which was used by white pupils was
valued at S14,104,O00 and that used by
colored pupils SS43,00O. In Baltimore
the worth of property used by white
pupils aggregated S16,343,000 and by
colored pupils S2,333,000.
Is Increase Over 1922.
The valuation of $50, 1923, 900 for
public school property throughout the
State last year is an increase of S13,-
169,354 over the 1922 figures, the De-
partment of Education records show.
The last national compilation of
data on public school property for the
year ending July, 1922, it was pointed
out, showed an average value of
school property per pupil enrolled in
the United States as 1929. Maryland
ranked thirty-fifth among the States
in this ranking, with valuation of
$50 worth of property per pupil.
During the last three years the val
ue of public school property in this
State increased sixty-ive per cent,
the records show. The average per
pupil for Maryland in 1925 was the
same as the average for all the States
in 1922.
County Average Is 1924.
The average value of property per
pupil used by white students belong
ing" in the counties was 1924 last
year, the amount ranging from S249
in Allegany county, to S48 in Dor
chester county. (The term belong
ing" is used by the Department of
Education to designate pupils ex-
elusive of the transient pupils, as we'll
as those outside the legal age. The
term comprehends only those pupils
for whom the department is "respon-
sible.")
For the county colored pupils "be-
longing" the average value of school
property was S32, ranging from S25G
in Allegany, to S14 in Dorchester
county, and to So in Howard county
The latter counties rent much of the
property used in the education of
colored children.
In Baltimore city the value of prop
erty used by white pupils Belonging
was S199 and by colored pupils S139
The value of school property per pupil
in Baltimore was exceeded in the
counties only by Allegany.
County Expenditures Large.
During the year ended July 81,
1925, capital outlay expenditures in
the counties reached S2,528, OO0-the
largest amount ever expended by
Maryland counties in any year.
In Baltimore the amount disbursed
SO, 225, 1000 was less than the
amount expended in either of the two
preceding years.
By July 81, 1925, between one-halt
and two-thirds of the funds available
from the school loans voted in Balti-
more were expended.
In the counties S99,70O was expen-
ded for land, S2,25O,2OO for new build
ings and their equipment, S173,3OC
for alteration and equipment of OLD
buildings and S4,7O0 for other capita
outlay costs. The purchase of land in
Baltimore cost S224,000; new build.
ings, 1896, and equipment, S1,O35,.
900.
Outlay Detailed.
Of the total county expenditure ST..
500 was used for white elementa.
ry schools, S1,170,100 for white high
schools and S110,500 for colorec
schools. The larger elementary
schools having at least three teach.