Year: 1876

The average attendance in the grammar and primary
schools, exclusive OF tho colored schools 80, ,09O
against &C. 249 last year. showing increase Of SAL
or about three per cent during this year. Last year
the increase in attendance in these schools about
seven and half per cent occasioned chiefly by the
opening OF seven new primary schools In different
parts OF the city. This year Primary School No. 35
in the Nineteenth ward, and Grammar School, No. 6S
in the Twelfth ward the only schools organized
except the nautical school, willie colored school No
has been closed, tho attendance OF pupils being too
small to warrant its continuance.


The number ofpupls taught in the primary, grammar
and colored schools s 205 109 from which, show the
number Of different pupils about 4S 900 should be de-
Quoted, leaving the true yearly enrolment about
ISL, 000 or this number the average attendance is
about sixty three per cent which compares very IA
yorably with the attendance in other cities.


The average enrolment for the present year 100 500
or about sixty nine per cent of the total enrolment
and the average attendance nearly ninetyone per
cent OF the average enrolment showing that OF all the
pupils at any time the registers of the schools only
about nine per cent absentees. This shows im-
provement over last year. when the rate Of absentee
ism based on the average enrolment was about eleven
per cent whereas Tor the present year II IS about nine
per cent


much more regular, the absenteeism being nineteen
per cent against twenty-five per cent last year As IN
previous years II WI" DC observed that there Is
regularity OF attendance in the male grammar schools
in any Of the others also that the regularity OF
attendance in the primary schools more nearly approx
maes to that in the primary departments than IN pre-
vious years.


In fourteen wards the attendance has increased but
chiefly in the Twelfth, Seventeenth and Nineteenth
wards the rate Of increase being however in case
large 1t in 1874 except in the Twelfth ward,
in which 10 was about eighteen per cent this year
against less than nine per cent the year previous Ad
ditional accommodations very much needed in the
Twelfth, Nineteenth and Twenty second wards


EXAMINATIONS.


An examination has been held at least once in every
school under the Of the Board and every class that
failed at the time OF the regular annual visit or the Su
perintendents has been examined


The general results OF the examinations In each class
OF schools TO the efficiency the instruction impaired
show that OF 2l9 classes examined the instruction in
222 was found have been excellent in $50 good in
l34 fair, in III indifferent and In bad.


or 2 242 classes either inspected examined in de-
tail the discipline, as manifested by the order aen-
tion, &c, OF the pupils while unoer examination, was
excellent In l,69S good in Az fair in So and ndiaer-
ent in 8


These results show considerable improvement over
those Of the preceding year both 10 instruction and
discipline In 1874 the number Of classes found to be
excellent IN instruction 40 per cent; this year IL Is
So per cent; while the number OF dencient classes this
year Is only 6H per cent, against per cent the year
previous In discipline, the number OF excellent
classes this rs per Of the whole, and the
number Of deficient classes about cent, against 60
per cent and per cent respectively last year IL will
instruction has been manifested in the male grammar
schools and Of deficiency in discipline in the primary
schools and primary departments.


An excessive zeal TO promote the pupils to grades for
which they are insuitcienty prepared Is frequent
the part OF principals arising from tho desire
10 send as large number OF pupils possible to the
College Of New York or the Normal College. Import
ant subjects, prescribed in the course OF instruction.
sometimes wholly omitted this account and at
others the pupils are much tasked with home lessons
that the parents complain either that their children
health impaired by proracted study that much OF
the teaching that should be done the schoolroom
transferred 20 the home circle


The average standing OF each class Of schools, as
compared with the same during the preceding year.
shown In the following table:--


AVERAGE STANDING OF SCHOOLS


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