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In the spring of 1865 the income from the special fund was fifteen thousand nine hundred and eighty- three dollars, and from the tuition fund fourteen' thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars. In April of that year, under the new common-school law of the State, a board of three trustees was elected by the Common Council, and in the summer they ordered the erection of the first really adequate and creditable school buildings of the city. One was on the corner of Blackford and Michigan Streets, the other on the corner of Vermont and Davidson Streets. The two, with the fences and out-buildings, cost seventy-one thousand dollars. Thenceforward the managers built only large, durable, and valuable houses. It is not necessary to notice the addition of thèse to the school system in detail. In 1866 was issued a full report of the condition and prog- ress of the schools, from which this sketch of their history has been condensed. During the school year, 1869-70, schools for colored pupils were opened in the old houses of the Fourth and Sixth Wards. A second story was added to the Fourth Ward house in 1870, and an evening school for colored pupils opened in the winter of 1871.
Evening Schools were reported in 1871 to have had the preceding winter three hundred and seven- teen pupils enrolled, the average attendance being one hundred and sixty-one. The total cost was but five hundred and seven dollars, or one dollar and
fifty-nine cents per enrolled pupil and three dollars and fifteen cents per pupil actually attending. The first report says,-
" Their instructions have been eminently useful tó a class of persons who have no other opportunities for obtaining useful learning, but their numbers should be largely increased from that class of un- taught boys and girls who, as at present situated, are subjected to the worst influences during the long nights of winter. The evening schools have been even too respectable, containing few youth who are not of confirmed steady and industrious habits. We earnestly commend these schools to all goed citizens as worthy of their best endeavors to increase the in- terest in them by frequent visitations, and to add to' their numbers by solicitations, watchfulness, and missionary effort among those young persons who can hardly escape becoming bad citizens unless res- cued by the influences thrown around them in these schools by exciting a thirst for knowledge which shall overcome the fascinations of idleness and vice."
In 1866 the lowest school age, which had previ- ously been five years, was increased to six, reducing the total of enrollment for that year from twelve thousand four hundred and fifty-five in 1865 to nine thousand one hundred and seventy-seven. Part of the difference is ascribed to incomplete returns. Sinec 1870 all children, colored and white alike, are counted in the school enumeration. On the basis of this the State's fund, derived from the State school tax and the income of the congressional township fund and the sinking fuod, is apportioned to the counties and cities and school districts. The city school tax constitutes a large and indispensable part of the school revenue. This is now assessed by the school board, but until within a few years past was fixed by the City Council with other city taxes. The rate of school tax is limited to twenty cents oo one hundred dollars.
A recent report of the school board presents some interesting facts in regard to the grounds and houses, modes of lighting, warming, and ventilating, that are important in giving the reader a clear idea of the free-school system of Indianapolis in its entirety. Where so many thousands of those whose habits are
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unformed, physical systems immature, and modes of life unsettled have to pass so large a portion of every working-day, the conditions touching health are of the highest importance. President Bell says of the school grounds, "It has been the policy of the board to purchase large lots upon which to erect school-houses; the lots will average for twelve-room buildings one hundred and fifty by two hundred feet ; and for smaller buildings the lots average one hundred and twenty-five by two hundred feet. In most instances these lots are bounded on three sides by streets and alleys. Sixteen of them are corner lots. Schools Nos. 3, 4, and 9 have less than the desired amount of space, but in no instance does the school building cover one-third the lot upon which it stands. In no instance does a neighboring building stand within the distance of its own height from the school building. In other words, no building stands so near a school-house as in any perceptible degree to cut off its light or air. Thus the size and location of the school lots secure sufficient play-ground, and ample light and air."
In regard to the construction and character of the school buildings he says, "Out of our twenty-six school buildings but three are more than two stories high, and one of these three will be abandoned soon. This arrangement saves the climbing of stairs by both teachers and pupils, and greatly lessens danger in case of fire. The halls and stairways are uni- formly wide, and all outside doors and all doors that open from the school-rooms into halls swing outward on their hinges to prevent danger in case of a panic. The school-rooms are, with few exceptions, twenty- seven by thirty feet in size, and most of them four- teen feet in height of ceiling. This gives fifty pupils, which is more than the average number in a room, each seventeen square feet of floor space and two hundred and thirty-eight cubic feet of air space. All school-rooms are furnished with comfortable desks ; twelve rooms with double desks, two hundred and six with single desks."
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Of heating and ventilation he says, " The simple Inatter of heating a school-room is comparatively an easy task, but to heat it and at the same time ven- tilate it so that the air can be kept pure in it when
it is occupied by fifty pupils, is a problem most diffi- cult to solve. The solution the board has arrived at is to make a separate ventilating shaft for each room, and they have done this in all the buildings erected for several years past. The foul-air registers have twice the capacity of the heat registers. The stoves used for heating warm the cold air before it gets to the pupil. This system is applied to about one hundred school-rooms, and gives the best satis- faction. The average of children to a room in the primary department is about fifty, and it ought not to be more than forty. That of other departments is thirty-eight."
Of the lighting of the school-rooms the report says, " Next in importance to pure air in a school- room is good light. Too much care cannot be taken of the children's eyesight. It is safe to say that there is not a badly-lighted school-room in the city. Out of the two hundred and ten rooms in use, in not one of them do the children sit facing the light, and in one hundred and sixty-four of them the light is admitted from the left hand and from the back, and in fifteen rooms from the left hand only, and in the remaining thirty-one the light comes from the right hand and the back. In our later buildings all the rooms are so arranged as to admit the light from the back and the left only, and this is the best possi- ble arrangement, according to the weight of authority and our experience.
"There are in these buildings four windows in each room,-two in the rear and two at the side,- each window nine feet six inches by three feet ten inches in size."
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION .- In the first applica- tion of the system of grades to the city schools there were four divisions, the primary, the intermediate, the grammar, and the high school. Some years later, about the close of the war or soon after, these were reduced to three grades, the primary, the intermedi- ate, and the high school. Still later the intermediate was changed to a grammar department, as appears in the " Manual of 1881," and four years were assigned to cach, making a full course of the free schools cover twelve years. Since 1881 the grammar department has been eliminated and the course below the high
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school runs on continuously from the first year to the eighth. In each year there are two grades, the lower, B, advancing quarterly into the next, or A grade. The first year has Grade 1 B and Grade 1 A; the second year, Grade 2 B and Grade 2 A; the third year, Grade 3 B and Grade 3 A ; the fourth year, Grade 4 B and Grade 4 A, and so on through the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth years, each year marking the numbers of the grades in it. There are two quarters to each year, and the school year consists of thirty-nine weeks.
First Year, or Grade 1 B .- Reading Monroe's " Chart Primer," spelling by sound words of reading, general lessons, inventions, and oral lessons on pictures and plants, music, writing. These for the first quar- ter. Second quarter the same, with addition of arith- metic, counting with and without objects, and finding a given number of objects. The general lessons on color and animals. 1 A, reading, spelling, arithmetic; general lessons (the human body and drawing, first quarter ; oral compositions on pictures and lessons on plants, second quarter), music, writing.
Second Year, 2 B .- Reading, spelling, arithmetic, language (how to talk, oral compositions, lessons on
color), writing, drawing, music, continued through both quarters. 2 A, reading, spelling, arithmetic, language, writing, drawing, music, through both quarters.
Third Year, 3 B .- The course in both quarters consists of the same studies substantially as in Grade 2 A, with slight variations that are of no conse- quence to such a summary as this. 8 A, the same as 2 A, advancing in the text-books, and in the second quarter introducing geography.
Fourth Year, 4 B .- The same as in 3 A, last quar- ter, with some changes of text-books and methods, continuing through both quarters. 4 A still contin- ues reading, spelling, arithmetic, language, geography, writing, drawing, and music through both quarters. Both B and A are going the same road, with one a little ahead of the other.
The other four years of the course preceding the high school continue the same studies, only advancing from quarter to quarter till the seventh year of A, when history is introduced and kept up through the year, and introduced in the eighth year of B. In eighth year of A physiology is introduced, and con- tinued through the year in the place of history.
HIGH SCHOOLS.
MATHEMATICS.
Weeks.
Science. (September Classes.)
Week s.
Science. , (January Classes.)
Weeks.
YEAR.
1. Algebra.
20
1. Physical Geography.
20 10
2. Physical Geography.
20
IST
2. Algebra. 20
2. [ 1. Physical Geography ... [2. Physics.
10
1. [2. Physics.
10
2D
2. Arithmetic
20 20
2. Botany.
20
1. 2. Physiology ..
10
3D
YEAR.
1. Solid Geometry ..... 2. Trigonometry and Surveying .
20
1.
j I. Botany ..
10
2. Physics ..
20
20
2. Chemistry ...
20
1. Chemistry
20
1. Laboratory.
20
2. Laboratory.
20
2. Astronomy .. or
20
1. Astronomy ..
20
4TH YEAR.
1. Zoology
20
2. Zoology ..
20
2. Geology ...
20
1. Geology ..
20
2. Botany .....
20
YEAR.
1. Geometry ..
1. Physics
20
[1. Botany ..
10
2. Physiology
10
[ 1. Physical Geography ...
10
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SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES OF INDIANAPOLIS.
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HISTORY OF INDIANAPOLIS AND MARION COUNTY.
HIGH SCHOOLS-Continued.
ENOLIAII.
Waeks.
Commercial and History.
Weeka.
Language.
Waeke.
18T
.YEAR.
2. Rhetoric, Literature, Read- ing, and Spelling.
20
YEAR.
1. English aa above.
20 20
1. Commercial Course .......
20 20
German or Latin ....
40
2. English as above.
2. Commercial Course ...
YEAR.
1. English as above.
20 20
2.
2. Modern History ......
20
German, Latin, Greek, or French
40
YEAR.
1. English Literature and Themes ...
20
2. Political Economy. or
20
German, Latin, Greek, or French ..
....
...
The required branches are in Roman letters and the electivo branches in italic. Drawing and music are also elective in the first year. The Commercial Course includes book-keeping, commercial law, and a review of arithmetic, and is designed especially for pupils who intend business pursuits. Three recitations daily are required to complete the high school course in four years.
STATISTICS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR THIRTY YEARS, 1853 TO 1883.
DATE.
* School Cenana.
No. of Weaks of School.
No. Teach- ers.
t Salariea Paid to Teachers.
No. of Different Pupils Enrolled.
Averaga Whole Number Belonging.
Average Daily Atten- danca.
Per Cent. of Attendance.
++ Salary of the Superin- tendent.
Salary of the Principal of High School.
Salary of Principala of District Schools.
1853
... ... .......
3,053
II
19
$250
1,160
...... 80I
...
+ $75
$500
1855
3,901
22
20
300
...
......
1856
4,604
30
28
300
...
....
1857
4,338
39
30
300
....
1858
4,739
**
...
**
....
200
1861
4,803
21
29
200
1862
4,965
22
29
200 to 340
2,040
. ....
......
...
64.86
1200
900
300 to 700
1865
12,455
38
28
380 to 376
2,533
1,428
1305
92.
1500
1000
500 to 620
1866
# 9,177
39
34
400
3,242
1,753
1000
91.2
2000
1000
600 to 620
1867
8,964
40
44
400
4,149
2,502
2361
94.2
2000
1250
600 to 620
1868
9,507
40
62
400 to 600
4,949
3,250
3099
95.
2000
1500
600 to 700 2 1200
1869
11,028
40
78
400 to 600
6,160
3,549
3375
94.9
2000
1600
1870
01 13,082
40
92
400 to 600
5,795
3,967
3759
94.7
2400
1700
1300
1871
14,617
40
103
400 to 600
6,560
4,468
4205
94.4
2400
1600
1872
15,718
40
112
400 to 600
6,895
4,676
4379
93.6
2400
2300
600 to 800
1873
16,927
40
I28
450 to 650
8,178
6,728
5306
92.6
3000
2400
700 to 1100
1874
19,125
40
161
450 to 650
9,351
6,766
6283
94.
3000
2400
700 to 1100
1875
20,723
40
176
450 to 650
11,013
7,457
7210
95.3
2800
2400
700 to 1100
1877
22,806
40
203
450 to 650
13,679
8,605
7920
92.
2500
2000
700 to 1100
1878
25,012
40
208
450 to 600
13,178
9,264
8665
93.5
2600
1800
700 to 1000
1879
26,039
40
213
420 to 670
13,336
9.543
8912
93.3
2500
1750
700 to 1000
1880
26,789
40
219
400 to 600
13,960
9,645
8925
92.5
2600
1750
700 to 1000
1881
28,959
39
233
400 to 600
12,833
9,750
9065
92.8
3000
1800
800 to 1100
1982
30,888
39
235
300 to 600
13,277
10,198
9495
93.2
$3000
1800
800 to 1100
1883
32,079
39
259
300 to 600
13,685
10,763
9938
92.4
3000
1800
800 to 1100
* The census from 1854 to 1865 includad ali white persons between five and twenty-one years; from 1866 to 1871, all hetwaan the ages of six and twenty-one ; and since 1870, all whita aud colored parsons between the last-mentioned ages.
+ City Clerk, acting school director.
I Salaries are based on the rale per annum for a full school year of forty waeke.
Superintendent was also principal of the high achool.
, High school suspended until 1864.
** No free schools-school-houses rented.
It From 1858 to 1863 the executive officer of the board was called the " Director." His pay waa $250 during vacation and $500 during term
tima.
# This felliog off in the censne is ascribed to the minimum age being increased hy one yaar (six and twenty-one years) and In part to incomplete returns.
¿ Two principale only appointed; ona for the districts north and one for the diatricts south of Washington Street. Includes the first anumeration of colored persona of achool aga.
2400
700 to 1100
1876
21,255
40
I89
450 to 650
12,315
7,686
7686
92.
2600
...
......
400 to 600
1863
6,863
30
29
240 to 260
2,374
1,260
1096
1000
300 to 600
1864
11,907
36
30
240 to 200
1. Civil Government, United States IFistory ..
20
4TH
2. English Literature and Themes
20
2. Psychology.
20
1.
[1. Grecian History .....
20
2. Roman History ......
3D
2. English as above.
1. Mediaval History ...
1300
1300
500
1859
4,934
1860
6,178
20
31
500
600
600
......
... ...
......
+ 75
........ $1000 1000
600
400
500
250
250
......
400
400
1854
8
10
1. Grammar ..
20
2D
40
1300
....
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PRESENT CONDITION .- In the following tables, taken from the last reports of the board of commis- sioners and the school officers, is presented as full and accurate a view of the present condition of the public schools as can be obtained. No additions have
been made to the houses or lots of this or other prop- erty of the schools since the compilation of the fol- lowing statistical table, which is for the year 1881, so that it is as complete as if made for the past year (1883) :
TABLE SHOWING SCHOOL PROPERTY, SIZE, LOCATION, COST OF GROUNDS, BUILDINGS, FURNITURE, ETC., JULY 1, 1881.
School Building6.
Location and Size of Lote.
Date of Erection.
Cost or Estimated Value of Sites.
Cost of Building8 and Improve- ments.
No. of Rooms.
No. of Seats.
How Seated.
How Heated.
Value of Furoi- ture and School Appa- ratus.
Total Value of Property.
No. 1.
Coroer Vermont and New Jersey Streets. Lot 90 by 195.
1881
$11,500.00
$11,445.35
8
448
Single seat8 Single
Grossina heaters Steam
6,709.88
81,791.63
No. 3.
Meridian Street, between Ohio and New York. Lot 135 by 195.
1875
40,597.50
61,131 45
13
720
Singie Beata
Steam
3,255.65
94,984.60
No. 4
Corner Blackford and Michigan Sta. Lot 15716 by 210.
1867
10,000.00
45,046.00
12
700
S'gle & double Single
Grossine heaters Grossine heaters Grossius heaters
4,330.64
59,830.64
No. 7
Corner Bates and Benton Streets. Lot 180 by 190.
1872
11,000.00
28,061.00
12
644
seats Single
Groesins
3,475.26
42,536.28
No. 8.
Virginia Avenue, near Huron Street. Lot 240 by 125.
1857
15,000.00
5,106.62
G
284 S'gle &
Grossiue
952.40
21,059.02
No. 9
Corner Vermont and Davidenn Streets. Lot 160 by 190.
1867
13,000.00
45,500.00 12
693
Single
seate
Grossine heaters Grossiue heaters
3,744.60
1,037.60
No. 11.
Corner Fourth and Tennessee Streete. Lot 122 by 208.
1872
12,200.00
25,291.65
12
603 Single
Grossius
2,097.55
39,589.20
No. 12.
Corner West and McCarty Streets. Lot 154 by 188.
1873
8,500.00
32,078.41
12
628 Single
Grossius
8,118.90
41,697.31
No. 14
Ohio Street, east of Highland Avenue. Lot 13543 by 219.
1878
4,900.00
10,241.32
8
483
Single seate Single
Groseite
831.50
8,631.50
No. 16.
Indianola, coroer Ray and Plum Streets. Lot 173 by 181.
1833
4,000 00,
23,401.35
8
336, Single
Grossiue heaters
2,055.61
29,456.98
No. 18.
1875
3,600.00
5,342 00
205
Grossius
766.00
9,608.00
No. 19.
Yandee Street, between Home Avenne and Lincoln Street. Lot 120 by 168. Shelby Street, south of Virginia Ave- nue. Lot 61 by 150.
1878
2,800.00
6,032.00
4 151
Grossius
506.65
8,538.85
No. 20.
Spruce Street, south of Prospect. Lot 198 by 181.
1875
5,000.00
20,706.00
8
423
seats Single seate Siogle seate Single seate Single
heaters Grossins heaters Groseine
2,856.65
84,662.85
No. 21.
New York Street, between Illinole and Tennessee. Lot 8216 by 125.
Recon- s'ted 1862 1876
6,000.00
16,518.28
8
381
eeate Single seate Single
Groseius heaters Grossioe
783.66
10,087.02
No. 24.
Corner North and Minerva Streete. Lot 135-2 by 208,3%.
1880
2,600.00
10,871.03
8 362
Single
Grossius beaters
1,560.47
15,031.50
No. 25.
Corner New Jersey and Merrill Streets. Lot -
1881
8,500.00
10,134.19
8
504
Groesina
1,541.32
20.175.51
No. 26. .....
Beeler Street, between Lincoln Ave- Que and 7th St. Lot 165.0 hy 174.4. Corner Pennsylvania and Michigan Streets. Lot 25216 by 195.
1881
2,000.00
11,890.46
8
434
Single seata Single Heats
Groselue heaters Heaters &
9,019.76
119,019.78
Old No. 7 ....
East Street, north of Louisiana. Lot 90 by 200.
Notin nee
7,000.00
7,000,00
Old No. 14 ....
East Washington Street, near Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Lot 65 by 193.
Not la use
6,500.00
1,500.00
...
Grosslua beaters
1,522.60
2,989.11
Corner Pennsylvania and Obio Streets. Lot 120 by 120.
1880
1,466,51
...
....
$334,997.50 $572,021.73| 225 11,946
$69,392.67
$978,411.90 35,000.00
Add the books and furniture of city library aod office furniture ....
Total valnatloo.
$1,011,411.90
No. 2
Corner Delaware and Walout Streete. Lot 18716 by 95.
1871
32,650.00
42,431.75
14
777
seats
heaters
heaters
5,174.90
63,674.90
No. 10
Corner Ach Street and llone Avenue. Lot 135 by 254.
1872
15,250.00
32,043.00
14
777 Single seste
aeats
heaters
1,952.82
17,094.14
No. 15
Market Street, between West and Cal- iforoia. Lot 67 by 204.
Recun- a'ted 1870 1873
3,000.00
3,500.00
02
168
Beats Double
Grossina
829.81
7,329.81
No. 17.
Corner Michigan and Huntingtoo Streete. Lot -.
1874
7,000.00
22,000.00
8
382 Single Beats
Groesiua
2,059.10
31,069.10
No. 13.
Maryland Street, between Mississippi and Missouri. Lot 6716 by 195.
Recon- s'ted 1859
7,000.00
2,000.00
4
210
No. 6 ...
Corner Union and Phipps Streets. Lot 266 by 139.
1808
15,000.00
40,500.00'
12
683
seats Single
donble
Beate
beatere
heaters
Groasine heaters
4,500.00
3,300.00
4
144
heaters
heaters
heatere
1,888.65
23,376.93
No. 23.
Corner Fourth and Howard Streets. Lot 183 by 201.
1880
2,800.00
8,483.36
4
209
acata
heaters
heaters
396.63
14,287.09
High School.
1872
60,000.00
50,000.00
7
543
Single seats
furnace
Old No. 6 ....
Penosylvania Street, south of Soulb. Lat 5916 by 150.
Not in use
5,000.00
5,000.00
Lib. B'idiog ..
Corner Chestnut and Ilill Streets. Lot 118 by 223.
12,000,00
2,000.00
4
454
200.00
14,200.00
No. 22
Beata
heaters
4,614.72
69,660,72
No. 6 ..
1,081.64
10,081.54
seate
$2,095.20
$25,040.55
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES OF INDIANAPOLIS.
8,000.00
seats
Cerner Buchanan and Beaty Streeta. Lot 164 by 231.
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HISTORY OF INDIANAPOLIS AND MARION COUNTY.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
1. Legal school age, six to twenty years inclusive.
2. Number of population according to the census :
1882.
1883.
Under six.
23,990
25,257
Over sixteen.
6,898
7,822
3. Wbole number of different pupils enrolled :
Under six
Between six and sixteen
12,916
13,378
Over sixteen
361
307
4. Number In sohools other than publie, as reported by census enumerator
1,053
2,833
5. Number of school days in the year ......
190
190
6. Number of days taught.
185
186
7. Estimated real value of property used for school purposes, grounds, or sites
$334,907.50
$346,347.50
Furniture.
69,392.67
72,682.67
Total
976,321.90
1,021,101.90
9. Total taxable property of city, assessed value
52,633,500.00
53,081,400.00
Tax for school purposes, mills per dollar, assessed value.
.02
.02
1882.
1883.
Primary and
Grammar School.
High School.
Normal School.
Primary and
Grammar School.
High School.
Normal School,
Total.
10. Number of rooms in which pupils are seated for study and recita- tien under one teacher.
205
...
1
206
223
..
1 224
11. Number of rooms in charge of two or more teachers ...
2
5
...
12
2
10
12
13. Number of school buildings.
26
1
...
27
28
1
...
14. Number of sittings for study ..
11,373
543
...
11,916
12,279
543
12,822
Males.
8
8
1
17
11
6
1
. 18
Females
16. Average number of teachers
219
15
1
235
244
14
1
259
17. Number of pupils enrolled.
12,678
599
24
13,301
13,151 9,938
492
24
10,442
19. Average daily attendance per teacher
40
30
12
......
40.7
38
24
...
ANNUAL SALARIES.
1882.
1883.
Of superintendent.
.$3000
$3000
Of assistant superintendent. 2000
2000
Of superintendent of primary instruction. 1400
1500
Of special teacher of musio.
1295
1400
Of special teacher of drawing 1450
1500
Of principal of normal school. 1650
2000
Of principal of high school 1800
2000
Of assistants. 950 $750 to 1100
Of principals of ward schools. .. $800 to 1100 800 to 1100
Total
33,170
STATEMENT OF ATTENDANCE, ETC.
1882.
1883.
Enrollment. 13,277
13,685
Average number belonging. 10,198
10,753
Average attendance
9,495
9,938
Per cent. of attendance
93.2 92.4
Cases of tardiness.
8,244
6,054
Number of tardy pupils 3,571
3,539
Number of pupils neither absent
nor tardy 1,777
3,659
Number of truancies.
553
555
No. 4
3,857
No. 5
3,868
No. 6
3,484
No. 7.
2,413
No. 8
5,118
No. 9.
2,477
No. 10.
4,193
No. 11. 2,624
Total
33,078
Transfers
91
Of assistants in ward schools. 300 to 600 300 to 650
Expense of instruction per capita based on average daily attendance :
Tuition. .$14.57
$14.86
Incidentals.
4.27
4.26
Total
$18.84
$19.12
NUMBER OF SCHOOL CHILDREN BY COMMISSIONERS' DIS- TRICTS, 1883.
No. 1.
1,685
No. 2
1,764
No. 3
1,596
Number of truant pupils
352
422
7
5
7
12. Number of rooms used for recitation only.
2
10
...
7
...
218
233
8
241
8,772
444
12
9,228
534
24
13,709
18. Average daily attendance ..
.
Between six and sixteen
..
8. Buildings
572,021.73
602,071.73
...
29
...
15. Number of teachers, January, including principals :
211
Total.
433
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES OF INDIANAPOLIS.
TABLE SHOWING THE RELATION BETWEEN SCHOOL CENSUS AND SCHOOL ENROLLMENT.
School Census.
Year.
Total.
School Enroll- ment.
No. in Pri- vate Schools.
No. at Work.
1869 ..
10,407
621
11,028
5,160
Not given. 46
Not given.
1870 ..
12,274
808
13,082
5,795
1871 ..
13,714
903
14,617
6,560
1872
14,708
1010
15,718
6,895
1873 ..
16,035
894
16,927
8,178
1874 ...
18,074
1051
19,125
9,351
1875 ..
19,734
989
20,723
10,013
1876 ..
19,925
1330
21,255
12,315
2100
4739
1877 ..
21,095
1711
22,806
13,679
1340
3931
1878 ..
23,956
2056
25,012
13,178
1156
3265
IS79 ..
23,738
2301
26,039
13,336
1597
4680
1880 ...
22,253
2776
26,029
$13,936
1116
3652
1881 ...
25,961
2998
28,959
13,964
1334
3643
1882 ...
27,372
3516
30,888
13,277
1053
3636
1883 ...
29,363
3716
33,079
13,685
2833
7731
In Private Schools .- In Indianapolis the number enrolled in all schools other than public is thirteen and a half per cent. of the public school euroll- ment.
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