The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-07-27
5,094 BOYS, girls
ATTEND SCHOOLS
OF COUNTY In '33
County Superintendent Report
Shows Average Wage of
Teachers

Five thousand and nlnety-fOur boys
and girls attended school in Redwood
county during the school year just
completed, according to the annual re-
port of C. D. Clipfell, county superin-
tendent, on the county's biggest in
dustry.
Many interesting facts are found in
the voluminous document which he
submits each year to the state comm
issioner of education. For instance, of
the 2,443 pupils attending high and
graded elementary, 1928 are girls and
1,13O are boys but in the ungraded
county schools, the boys outnumber
the girls, 1894 to 1887. This makes
1924 boys in county schools and 2,570
girls.
Of special interest to taxpayers is
the fact that the average wage of all
teachers is $102.33 per month. Men
teaching in high and graded schools
drew an average of $173.82 and wo-
men, $118.32 per month. The average
for all teachers in the graded schools
was $131.54
Twenty-three men are employed in
graded schools and 10 in. ungraded
schools while " women have posit-
ions in the former and 112 in the latt-
er, making total of PIT persons en-
ployed in teaching in our public
schools. So
In the ungraded schools, the aver
age wage for male teachers was $118.
so while the average for female in
structors was $76.11, an average for
both of $79.5s. Averaging teachers
salaries for all county schools gives a
wage Of $102.33 or $92.62 for women
and $156.42 for men. A total of $22,
206.37 per month went for teachers
salaries in the county over the, nine
month period. -
Only one ungraded school in the
county had more than 40 students
while four had 80 to 80 and As had
20 to % enrolled. Twenty-Five had
Is to 10, IA had 10 to ID students
while one school had only six pupils
and another, nine. OF the Is graded
districts, one had 20 to %, three had
80 to 80 and nine had more than 40.
Three of the 103 ungraded districts
in the county were closed and trans
ported their pupils to other districts.
In only one ungraded school of the
county, the average days attended by
each pupils fell below 100. In eight
the average was between 100 and 119,
in AZ twas between I2O and 139
while 33 rated between 14O and I59
and 16 had averages of more than
160. In SO districts, school lasted but
eight months. One district had eight
and one-half months school and 40
had nine months school. The average
ungraded school student was enrolled
for 171.25 day term.
Of 202 students completing the
eighth grade in rural schools, 81 went
to eight month term schools, four
went to eight and one-half month
schools and 131 to nine month schools.
Seventy-four students began kin
dergarten during the year while 571,
the largest number in any grade,
started first grade. Four hundred
ninety were in the eighth grade while
40 were high school seniors.
The school census of Redwood Falls
showed 1913 between the ages of 8 and
Is, 1876 boys and 1877 girls. Eight
hundred thirty was the total enroll
ment here, and the district was en-
titled to state aportionment on 1893
of the total. Boys total 395 and
girls, 435. The average daily attend
ance was 725 and the average child
went 157 of the $50 days, a somewhat
lower average than that of other
graded schools in the county. Sixty
three started school here, while SO
finished the eighth grade. The senior
class is larger because of the number
who come here from away for high
school work.