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To argue for manual training in these days seems like reading an almanac of the closing years of the last century. The educational value of hand work has been demonstrated over and over again by the experience of many com. munities. As an educational principle it is universally accepted. But the application of this principle as exemplified in the details of a course of study in handicraft, it is true, has sometimes been too academic and at other times too unsystematic. This is no argument, however, for holding back. On the contrary it is more reason for going ahead with the right sort of course. Why should Newburyport continue to neglect the creative and constructive instincts and capacities which every normal boy possesses? The domestic science course for the girls provides them with instruction in the ways and means of cooking and in allied household management. Give the boys, then, a chance to learn how to handle properly the hammer, the saw, the chisel and the plane, and incidentally to get a kind of training which constitutes an essential part of an all round education.
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Changes in Teachers
Among the elementary school teachers there have been many changes during the year. Miss Chesterman, who was absent for a year on leave of absence, has returned to the Jackman School. Miss Chute, the principal of the Currier School, after the unusually long term of service of fifty-one years was retired in accordance with the rules of the Massachusetts Teachers' Re tirement Association. Mr. Leon E. Davis, a graduate of Bates College and a teacher of several year's experience, was elected last June to fill her place, Miss Ellen deS. Barrett was transferred from the Jackman School to the principalship of the training school and her place was filled by the appoint- ment of Mrs. Isabel H. Wiggin. Miss Davis, the principal of the Curtis School, resigned on account of ill health and Miss Fannie S. Goodwin was elected to fill this vacancy. In the places of Miss Roaf and Miss Carleton, who resigned from the Currier School and Jackman School respectively, Miss Helen W Marr and Miss Ella M. Furlong have been elected.
THE HIGH SCHOOL Registration
The number of pupils in the high school this year is 439. This is consider ably less than a year ago. The falling off in registration is thought to be due to the following reasons.
In the first place more pupils left school during the year than in the past. This was caused by the standards of scholarship and discipline being more vigorously maintained. Every pupil, however, who shows a disposition to behave himself properly and who gives reasonable promise of making good in his studies, is encouraged to remain in the school.
The smaller number this year is also due to the fact that, owing to the delay in opening, some pupils have found opportunities to go to work, and also in part to the fact that some from Salisbury and Newbury for whom places were being reserved did not present themselves. Further the number from out of town who passed the examination for entrance was smaller than usual.
In spite of the smaller registration of pupils, however, the number of classes to be provided for is fully as many as last year. This is consistent with the statement made last spring to the effect that reduction in the number of students would not necessarily affect the number of sections into which the classes must be divided unless this reduction took place in some one class.
Need of Modern Equipment
In spite of the smaller number of pupils in the school the need of better accommodations and a more modern equipment still exists. Teachers and pupils are handicapped by being obliged to meet for recitation in badly ven- tilated, crowded rooms and in the assembly hall which is much too large for such a purpose. The laboratories are not worthy of a modern high school and there is no library where pupils may learn how to use books.
For lack of suitable accommodations the boys and girls not going to college are not receiving equal consideration with those who are. In justice
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therefore to such students, many of whom are not benefitted by the usual formal, abstract and bookish instruction of the college preparatory course but who are capable of being educated by a kind of training made up of more practical, concrete and useful things, we should have such equipment as will enable everyone to have an equal chance in obtaining the kind of education best fitted to his needs.
Programs of Instruction
The courses of study have been revised in accordance with the sugges- tions made by the Superintendent, and the Latin and scientific courses have been approved by the different colleges to which we send pupils. In some cases in the past young women intending to enter college have found them- selves unable to meet the requirements for college entrance owing to the fact that the course of study which we offered did not prepare them fully. After the present school year no such deficiency will exist.
Circulars of information explaining the opportunities and the limitations of the various courses of study were sent last June to the parents of pupils planning to enter the High School this year. In these circulars the aims of the different courses were defined and parents were advised to give serious consideration to the choice of the proper course for their children. Such choice it was urged should be determined by what the pupil expects to do on leaving the high school and not by what someone else is going to take or has taken. Pupils whose literary aptitudes and financial means justify them in looking forward with reasonable expectation to a college or scientific school education should select the Latin or scientific course. Pupils not going to college or scientific school should select either the commercial or the general course. Pupils going to normal school may take any of the courses.
There was no course, it was pointed out in the circulars, that appeals to boys and girls who do not take naturally to foreign languages, mathematics and other formal and abstract studies. Unlike some other high schools we are unable to make any provision for the boys and girls who desire an educa- tion of a practical and useful kind. With its present facilities the school can not serve adequately all who have a right to enter its doors. The sooner the general public wakes up to this fact the better it will be for Newburyport.
Admission by Certificate
The Superintendents of Schools of the Newbury-Salisbury district and of Newburyport, with the consent of their respective School Committees, have agreed that pupils who have duly completed the course of study prescribed by the towns of Newbury and Salisbury may be admitted to the Newburyport High School without examination upon certificate signed by the Superinten- dent of Schools of the town in which such pupil resides if said pupil has maintained an average rank of 80 per cent or above for the last year of his elementary school work in all subjects required for admission to the high school. Pupils failing to maintain the stated rank in all subjects shall be required to pass an entrance examination satisfactory to the Superintendent of Schools in Newburyport in those subjects in which they have fallen below.
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TRAINING SCHOOL
The Newburyport Training School for Teachers of the primary grades, an institution of more than twenty-five years standing, has during the last year, passed through a very critical experience. In March, the sudden death of Mrs. Frances Richards Rodigrass, who was a most successful principal of this school during the greater part of its existence, precipitated the question as to whether or not the school should be abolished. But after serious con- sideration the School Committee, not without some misgivings, voted to continue the school.
This action was taken after a frank statement from your superintendent concerning the limitations and possibilities of the school. It was asserted that, while the institution had served a very useful purpose in the past, the time had come, if the school were to be continued, for a revision of its course of study in the theory of education and a reorganization of its methods of teaching. It was maintained, however, that with reasonable financial support from the school committee and a certain freedom for the superintendent in matters of administration, there was a good reason to believe that the training school could be made a model school which should be an inspiration and guide to all the other primary schools in the system.
From the point of view of the children it was explained that the contin- uance of the school did not mean necessarily any injury to them nor neglect of their interests In fact, it would be impossible, it was claimed, to develop a sound system of training for teachers, if to any appreciable extent, the welfare of the pupils was neglected. In a school for the training of primary teachers the demands of subject matter are very slight. It is the method of teaching which looms large and the personal attitude of the teacher towards the pupils that is to be watched. If a training school is really successful in training teachers this success is not attained at the expense of the pupil.
The question whether it would be well to continue the school in view of the fact that its course of study did not equal in content and breadth that offered in the neighboring normal school led to certain statements of aim and organization. The aim of the local training school is frankly limited to the preparation of teachers for primary grades. The subject matter of instruction in those grades is so simple as to make little or no demand upon the teacher, The local school, therefore, does not have to provide systematic instruction for its pupil teachers, except in such technical studies as music, drawing, and possibly in nature study. The normal school, on the other hand, aims to prepare its graduates to teach in grades beyond the primary school and must offer some instruction in the review and organization of the subject matter of grammar school studies. Further than this in the two year's course of the normal school there is little attempt at anything of cultural content. So far as the study of pedagogy is concerned the offering of the local school will probably be fully as broad and thorough as that provided in the other school.
It must not be overlooked that a local training school may, by a system of inbreeding, be the means of lowering the efficiency of a school system. But this need not necessarily be the case. In fact, the contrary result may be
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confidently expected if intelligent discrimination in the admission of candi- dates is exercised. That is to say, if only those whose work in the high school is distinctly promising are admitted, there is brought to bear at the very start a selective process which cannot fail to work to the ultimate advantage of our school system. Under such circumstances membership in the training school will become an honor eagerly sought by our high school graduates of creditable standing. But the administration of such a plan must be primarily in the hands of those whose professional training qualifies them to be competent and impartial judges.
In the light of present developments your Superintendent sees no reason to regret having advised in favor of continuing the training school. Miss Ellen deS. Barrett, who was selected as the head of the school, is proving to be a very capable and worthy principal. During the past summer she took courses in Teachers College, Columbia University, bearing upon the problems of contemporary education. The results of her vacation study are being manifested daily in her better understanding of educational matters. We look forward with confidence to a continuance of the good work which the New- buryport Training School has done in the past.
But the future of the school should be definitely decided at an early date It is not fair to the pupil teachers to ask them to enter upon a two years' course of training if there is no assurance that the school will be continued that length of time. The present uncertainty was in part responsible for the small number of desirable candidates for the present junior year. In justice to the principal and superintendent the future of the school should not be limited to one year in advance, for their work, to be worth while, must be adjusted to a longer range of vision than that. In this matter your Superin- tendent has, from the first, thought only of the welfare of the school system and of the benefit to the city; any possible suspicion to the effect that he was interested from personal motives, to the contrary notwithstanding. If the school were to be discontinued his problems would be fewer and far simpler than if the opposite course is decided upon. But let us have it settled before long either one way or the other.
One other matter deserves your notice. In the senior year ought we to restrict the payment of the nominal salary of two dollars per week to grad- uates of the Newburyport High School? If the services of our own high school graduates are worth that amount to the city, and no one will deny that thesis, we should not expect the graduates of some other high school to work for nothing.
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MOVEMENT
This report ought not to close without some mention of a very important movement in contemporary educational administration, namely, the establish- ment of junior high schools. This movement is attracting attention from one end of the country to the other and certainly demands some consideration from this committee. While occupying at the present time the center of the educational stage, the junior high school plan has, in one costume of another,
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been more or less in view for ten years or more.
It is well known to you that in the first year of high schools everywhere the number of pupils who fail and drop out is so great as to cause school officials and committeemen to seek the reason therefor. This failure, it is thought, is due to the manifold changes which occur at the time of transition from one school to the other :- changes in studies and in the methods and quality of teaching as well as changes in the pupil himself.
The junior high school, sometimes called the intermediate school, is a school composed of the seventh, eighth and ninth grades of the grammar school, or, in an eight grade elementary system, of the last two grammar grades and the first year of the high school. This school aims to diminish the shock of transition from the lower to the higher school by the introduction of departmental teaching, by anticipating, at least in their elements, some of the studies of the secondary school, and by a differentiation of the course of instruction to meet individual needs.
The junior high school discourages undue prolongation of strictly elemen- tary school methods and study of subject matter in the attempt to secure a perfection in the fundamentals not consistent with the pupils' lack of matur- ity. The proposed changes in the kind of instruction correspond closely in point of time to the physical and mental changes which mark the beginning of adolescence. The junior high school plan enables students to prepare for college and technical schools with less nervous strain and offers an oppor- tunity to introduce industrial training during the last two years for those who need that kind of an education.
The junior high school plan is in keeping with the experience of foreign countries and with the practice of our own private schools. It is considered the most important improvement in educational administration that has been made since public high schools were established. The prediction may safely be ventured, it is said, that the junior high school plan will ere long be a characteristic feature of the school system in a majority of the states of the Union.
CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY
This report, it is pleasing to note, while dealing with matters in need of reform, is able to chronicle substantial achievement along various lines. These changes which are very encouraging to a Superintendent have been made possible by the support of the School Committee and in some cases by the cooperation of the teaching staff. The Superintendent gladly acknowl- edges his indebtedness to his offical superiors and to his teachers. He also takes this opportunity of thanking the people as a whole for their considerate judgment of his efforts. With such a beginning there is reason to expect that all good things will come to our schools in due time. With full explanation afforded as to the needs of the schools there is no reason why the people of Newburyport should not unite in an effort to secure for their children educa- tional advantages commensurate with a city of this size and culture.
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The recommendations for the coming year are as follows:
(1). Joint commission of the Public Property Committee and the School Committee to consider material needs of schools.
(2). Early decision as to the future of the Training School.
(3). Some plan to relieve present rigidity of promotion system.
(4). Manual Training for boys in the grammar school.
(5). Opportunities in the High School for education in the practical arts
(6). Better school buildings.
Respectfully, WILLIAM C. MOORE, Superintendent of Schools
November 27, 1916.
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TABLE 1 FROM THE LATEST REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
1. North Attleboro
1500
$38.96
2. Attleboro 2700
38.19
3. Dedham 2200
37.87
4. Winthrop
2300
36.34
5. Watertown
2400
36.03
6. Melrose
2900
35.93
7. Norwood
2100
35.92
8. Natick
1800
35.51
9. Marlboro
2000
35.48
10. Marblehead
1300
35.25
11. West Springfield
2200
34.66
12. Adams
1600
33.46
13. Wakefield
2400
32.69
14. Braintree
1900
31.27
15. Middleboro
1500
28 69
16. Newburyport
2000
28.12
TABLE 2 TIME ALLOTMENT FOR STUDIES I II
Total
Total
Total
IV Total
Opening Exercises
50
50
50
50
Reading and Phonetics
525
525
400
300
Spelling
75
75
75
75
Language
150
150
150
200
Writing
75
75
75
75
Arithmetic
225
225
200
200
Nature Study and
Geography
50
50
75
150
Drawing and Handwork ..
75
75
75
90
Music
60
60
60
60
Physiology
20
20
Physical Exercises
50
50
50
50
Recess
150
150
150
150
Unassigned Time
15
15
120
80
Total
1,500
1,500
1,500
1.500
III
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V Total
VI Total
VII Total
VIII Total
IX Total
Opening
Exercises . .
50
50
50
50
50
Reading ...
200
150
150
150
150
Spelling
75
75
50
50
50
Language
200
225
225
225
225
Writing . ...
100
75
60
60
60
Arithmetic
300
250
225
200
200
History
120
120
120
150
Nature Study and
Geography . .
150
150
150
150
120
Drawing and
Handwork ..
90
90
30
60
60
Music
75
60
60
60
60
Domestic
Science
.
60
60
180
180
Physiology
20
30
30
30
30
Physical
Exercises . .
50
50
50
50
50
Recess
75
75
75
75
75
Unassigned
Time
115
40
105
40
40
Total . .
1,500
1,500
1,500
1,500
1,500
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Report of Principal of High School
Mr. William C. Moore,
Superintendent of Schools:
My dear Sir :- I hereby present the annual report of the Newburyport High and Putnam Free Schools for the year ending November 30, 1916.
There were graduated from the schools in June 76 pupils. Of these, 11 were graduates of the Putnam Free School. The total number graduating from each of the courses offered was as follows :- General, 29; Commercial, 30; Scientific, 10; College, 7. A list of the names of the graduates accom- panies this report.
The enrollment at the opening of the schools in October, 1916, was 439. This number is smaller than that of the previous year. The demand for help in the industries of the city was in part responsible for the smaller registra- tion. It is in part accounted for also by the fact that fewer out of town pupils succeeded in passing the entrance examinations. Notwithstanding the smaller number entering the school this year there are just as many classes as for- merly to be provided for. The reduction in the number of students has not affected the number of sections into which the classes must be divided.
There have been a number of changes in the teaching force during the past year. Mr. William W. Lee, Jr., Miss Lisbeth Larned, Miss Ella L. Townsend, Miss Marion Bayley, and Mr. Arthur H. Berry have resigned. Mr. Herbert H. Benedict served during a portion of the year as a substitute for Mr. Lee. The resignation of these teachers made possible a very desirable reorganization of the teaching assignments with a view to departmentalizing more com- pletely the work of instruction. The new teachers elected to fill the vacancies are Miss Margaret Osgood, Miss Eva H. Williams, Miss Caroline E. MacGill, Mr. Alban Fowler, and Dr. John Whitmore. These are all teachers of reputed successful experience elsewhere.
The fifty dollar scholarship offered by the Newburyport Woman's Club to "the most deserving and meritorious young woman of the graduating class" was given this year to Nora Helen Leary. For the best work in classes in junior English the Newburyport Woman's Club gave membership tickets for the year 1916-1917 to Marion Leneta Bacon Chesterman and Lucy Ada Gatrell.
The Merrill Prize Speaking Contest was held in the High School Assembly Hall on the evening of June 16. The judges were Arthur P. Brown, Henry H. Pratt and Grace C. Moody. Winifred Helen Nolan and William Anthony Towle were awarded the first prizes for boys and girls respectively, and Gladys Winnifred Warner and Roy Brooks Chase the second prizes.
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The Harvard Club of Newburyport for the purpose of encouraging inter est in public speaking and in debate among the pupils of Dummer Academy and of the Newburyport High School has offered a silver cup to be contested for annually by three boys from each school. This cup is to become the permanent property of the school which wins three debates. These debates are to be held in the month of May alternately in Newburyport and Dummer Academy. The subjects are to be selected by the Publicity Committee of the Harvard Club and the head masters of the two schools.
In May, 1916, the question was "Resolved that a period of military train ing should be required of all American Young Men." The negative side was assigned to the local school and was ably maintained by Samuel Stratton Richard E. Welch, and Charles E. Bills. The decision of the judges was in favor of the Newburyport High School.
Yours very truly,
DANA C. WELLS, Principal
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Graduates of the High and Putman Free Schools
*Norma Rogers Brown *Belva Pearl Chase Laura Curtis Little
College Course
Katherine Freeman Mulliken Marion Spofford Nutter Florence Amelia Perkins
Alice Folsom Robinson
Scientific Course
Arthur Clark Atwater Abel Brudno
Lawrence Wormsted Clarkson
Hilarion Oswald Gastonguay *Ronald Scott Gibbons
Roy Blake Ireland
William Sanborn Johnson
Samuel Sommerville Stratton
Richard Edwin Welch
George Arthur Wilson
Commercial Course
Constance Loraine Atwater *Frank Trustrum Bragg
*Chester Thomas Brown Esther Elizabeth Brown Peter Canepa Teresa Frances Carey
James Arthur Casey
Jeremiah Joseph Creeden
Elizabeth Mary Crimmins Godfrey John Flagg George William Hussey Margaret Elizabeth Kelly Edna Greenwood Lane Mary Augusta McGlew Margaret Anne McInnis
Raymond Parker Abbott Grace Elizabeth Adams
Lurline Hamilton Mullins
Beatrice Anita Noyes
Raymond Shaw Noyes
Eleanor Avery Plumer *Lucy Marguerite Plumer Lillian Poor Sargent Ruth Marian Spurling Charlotte Louisa Squire
Ada Blanche Steer
Doris Mildred Stevens Lawrence Gerald Stevens Edna May Tuttle
*Helen Wadleigh Gladys Winnifred Warner Mary Hildegarde Whitley
General Course
*Esther Belle Ilsley David Cummings Knight
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Helen Pettingell Bartlett
Thomas James Bell
*Dorothy Woodwell Knight Nora Helen Leary
John Joseph Casey
Helen Lyons
Joseph Raymond Connell
*Eunice Moulton
Warren Shattuck Currier
Elizabeth Maude Nelson
Herbert Martin Emery
Mildred Cecilia Nolan
Rosamond Forsythe George
George Creasey Parsons
Harold Gilbert Gove
Forrest Douglas Patriquin
Edith May Hardy
Alice Kimball Perkins *Eleanor Mary Rolfe
Eugene Lawrence Henry
Raymond March Hughes
Kathryn Marion Twomey Gertrude Carolyn Weare
Gilbert Gerrish Huntington
Charles Edward Whitley *Graduates of the Putnam Free School.
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High School Courses of Study
GENERAL COURSE
FIRST YEAR SECOND YEAR
THIRD YEAR
FOURTH YEAR
English 4-4 English
4-4 English
4-4 English 4-4
Science 5-4 Biology
5-4 Chemistry
5-4 Physics 5-4
Algebra 5-4 Geometry 5-4 French 5-4
French
5-4 French 5-4 or Latin
5-5 Drawing 2-1
or Latin . . 5-5 or Latin . . 5-5 Drawing
2-1 History 5-5
Drawing .. 2-1 History . 5-4 History
5-4Economics 5-5
COMMERCIAL COURSE
English 4-4 English 4~4 English ..
French 5-4 French 5-4
Typewriting.
5-3 Shorthand 5-3
History 5-4 Bookkeeping. 5-4
Commercial
Typewriting . 5-3
Introductory
Shorthand .. 3-3. Geography
3-3 Commercial
Business 5-5 Algebra
Law 2-2
Arithmetic
Geometry ... 5-4
Business Practice . .
5-4
Bookkeeping
Rev. Arith.
Bookpg.
Office Work Elect One
Elect One
Physics 5-4
Chemistry .. 5-4 Economics ... 5-4
French . .5-4 Amer. Hist. . 5-4
SCIENTIFIC COURSE
English 4-4 English
4-4 English 4-4 English 4-4
French 5-5 French
5-5 French 3-3 Algebra 2-2
Algebra 5-5 Geometry 5-5 Algebra 3-3 American
Drawing 2-1 Drawing
4-2 Geometry 2-2 History 5-5
Ancient
Physics 4-3 Chemistry
-4 Physics 5-4
History 5-5
German 5-5 German 5-5
LATIN COURSE
English 4-4 English
4-4 English
4-4 English 4-4
Latin
5-5 Latin
5-5 Latin
5-5 Latin 5-5
Algebra 5-5 Geometry
5-5 Mathematics. 3-3 Mathematics 3-3
Ancient
French 5-5 French
5-4 French 5-4
History 5-5 Physics 6-5
History
5-5
4-4 Commercial
Shorthand
5-4 English 4-4
Penmanship
Geometry 3-3
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Annual Report of the Attendance Officer, 1916
Mr. William C. Moore, Superintendent of Schools, Newburyport, Mass.
Dear Sir :-
As the Attendance Officer of the City of Newburyport I submit my report for the year ending June 30, 1916.
Schools Visited 1,272
Absences Investigated 1,608
Children Returned to School from Street 105
Truants Found-1st Offence 121
Truants Found-5th Offence
2
Complaints Entered in Court
9
Placed on Probation by Court 6
Sentenced by Court
3
Times Visited Lawrence Training School
3
Visits to Factories, Stores and Other Places
522
Children Illegally Employed 34
In addition to the above work I have taken the school census and find that there are between the ages of five and sixteen, 1381 boys and 1388 girls, making a total of 2769, a gain of 198, over last year.
At this time I desire to take the opportunity of thanking the Superintend- ent, teachers and School Committee for the hearty support and help they have accorded me in my work for the past year.
Respectfully,
EDWARD H. PORTER,
November 27, 1916.
Attendance Officer.
SCHOOL CENSUS OF 1916
-
Age
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Total
Total No.
MFMFMF MFM
F
23
28
25
19
24
26
27
24 27
28
22
33
15
23
283
284
567
Ward 2
22
21
26
30
39
30
18
37
35
32
25
39
26
26
31
26
26
21
22
16
292
307
599
Ward 3
8
17
16
12
12
11
15
23
9
15
15
10
15
8
11
14
13
20
11
15
10
151
136
287
Ward 4
.. 19
10
14
15
29
26
19
33
10
29
16
20
12
14
16
22
20
16
14
13
12
11
181
208
389
Ward 5
17
31
26
19
22
19
14
20
19
25
19
19
13
21
13
13
27
11
20
15
19
15
209
208
417
Ward 6 ..
18
22
21
22
26
17
26
24
25
22
30
24
29
32
22
24
12
21
29
20
27
17
265
245
510
108 121 133 122 166 127 119 159 135 145 130 136 114 130 111 128 124 115 131 113 110
92 1381 1388 2769
Ward 1
26
29
29
20
38
23
31
30
1,381
Boys, 7 to 14 years
898
Boys, 5 to 16 years
Girls, 7 to 14 years
939
Girls, 5 to 16 years
1,388
Total children of school age, 5 to 16 years ..
2,769
Total children, 7 to 14 years .
1837
Illiterate Minors, 24.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
F MF
M F
M
F
Chil.
MF MF
M F
M
24 24
.
.. 6
35
·
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ATTENDANCE RECORD 1915-1916
Number of Different
Pupils Enrolled
Over 15 Years
Between
7 and 14 Years
Average Membership
Average Attendance
Percentage of
Attendance
Days of School
Cases of Tardiness
Number of Dismissals
Cases of Truancy
Corporal Punishment
High School
505
463
42
450.6
433.3
.96
177.
798
349
Currier IX
35
2
22
34.0
33.2
.95
185.
1
12
2
4
Currier VIII
36
5
29
33.65
32.6
.969
184.5
20
Currier VII
38
1
37
38.0
36.5
.961
184.5
6
2
2
Currier VI
36
36
33.5
32.4
967
184.5
6
11
Currier V
40
Currier V and VI
33
37
32.7
31.0
.948
185.5
13
20
2
Jackman IX
69
1
41
53.76
51.85
.964
183.
48
122
Jackman VII and VIII
64
1
58
60.0
58.8
.946
183.
25
72
3
Jackman
VIII
34
4
25
31.0
29.0
.958
183.
85
48
2
1
Jackman
VII
43
1
39
41.5
40.06
.965
183.
2
11
Jackman
VI
42
VI
40
1
37
37.0
36.0
.97
183.
16
27
Jackman
V
42
41
42.0
39.2
.933
183.
37
45
2
Jackman
V
44
42
43.2
38.37
.89
183.
69
42
2
1
Kelley IX
37
12
25
40.3
39.1
.97
185.5
160
51
2
2
Kelley VIII
45
8
37
41.0
37.0
.91
185.5
103
60
Kelley VII
39
2
37
39.1
37.7
.964
185.5
156
87
Kelley VI
41
41
41.32
39.82
965
185.5
13
11
Kelley V
43
1
42
36.7
35.1
.956
185.5
23
14
.
..
.
·
·
.
1
39
37.0
34.7
.91
183.
39
50
Jackman
·
·
.
.
3
ANNUAL REPORT
17
38.65
36.45
.943
184.5
24
Bromfield St. IV
32
1 29
30.7
28.9
.938
181.
42
33
4
Bromfield St. III
40
40
36.3
34.3
.944
181.
40
81
6
Bromfield St. II
49
18
39.6
37.1
.94
181.
122
42
Bromfield St. I
45
14
36.2
31.8
.87
181.
261
18
2
Curtis IV
33
33
30.56
36.8
34.6
.937
181.5
36
28
Curtis III
37
36
20.9
19.6
.936
181.5
17
14
Curtis I
35
3
29.3
26.8
.915
181.5
34
7
Davenport IV
30
30
28.65
27.43
.957
181.5
26
27
1
4
Davenport III
27
27
30.2
28.3
.937
181.
44
8
5
Davenport II
33
17
32.2
30.8
.954
181.5
19
7
4
Davenport I
44
1
6
30.3
34.5
872
182.
53
10
3
Johnson III
29
29
32.45
30.22
.921
180.5
72
6
2
Johnson II
32
17
35.5
32.7
.921
181.
49
9
2
1
Johnson I
34
1
32.9
30.15
916
180.5
72
6
6
Temple St. III and IV
45
43
41.0
38.0
.927
183.5
34
43
Temple St. I and II
45
1
11
37.5
35.5
.946
183.5
20
9
Training IV .
32
32
33.09
31.66
.956
182.
61
8
Training III
40
39
38.2
36.8
.963
182.
126
28
Training II
38
26
31.16
30.72
.98
182.
104
33
Training I
33
3
31.0
26.6
.858
182.
80
4
Moultonville I to IV
22
14
17.9
16.4
.905
187.5
10
3
Total
2115
506
1210
1946.47
1841.08
936
182.5
3179
1553
52
19
Figures for 1915
2110
454
1258
2016.6
1917.5
958
181.0
3125
1549
52
25
Increase
5
52
Decrease
48
70.13
76.42
0 022
1.5
54
4
6
·
.
...
.. .
. .
. .
..
.
.
30
30
29.08
27.04
.93
181.
48
49
3
29.01
.946
181.5
Curtis II
24
5
.
·
.
.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
75
9
Johnson IV
37
38
ANNUAL REPORT
The Grades for Ten Years
1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
Grade I
254
264
211
261
216
223
240
253
260
226
Grade II
239
234
220
212
243
199
216
219
211
200
Grade III
258
221
183
208
189
203
182
197 204
200
Grade IV
231
245
176
184
204
187
171
193
176
183
Grade V
247
232
199
168
175
182
191
174
189
202
Grade VI
177
247
227
214
166
159
170
165
172
159
Grade VII
207
197
225
183
205
150
124
143
146
120
Grade VIII
123
161
145
139
122
153
172
175
154
179
Grade IX
132
125
147
140
157
124
131
122
126
141
Grade X
122
146
133
176
132
168
132
170
157
190
Grade XI
78
100
133
85
155
120
123
144
134
130
Grade XII
58
62
68
118
84
116
110
92
94
109
Grade XIII
59
56
60
60
76
60
90
80
84
76
Post Graduates
2
5
2
2
3
6
2
3
Total
.2187 2295 2129 2150 2127 2050 2054 2127 2110 2115
39
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Attendance By Grades
GRADES.
HIGH SCHOOL
CURRIER
JACKMAN.
KELLEY.
BROMFIELD ST.
CURTIS.
DAVENPORT.
JOHNSON.
TEMPLE ST.
TRAINING.
MOULTONVILLE.
XIII
76
(33 boys and 43 girls.)
76
XII
109
(43 boys and 66 girls.)
109
XI
130
(82 boys and 48 girls.)
130
X
190
(90 boys and 100 girls.)
190
IX
35
69
37
(67 boys and 74 girls.)
141
VIII
36
98
45
(74 boys and 105 girls.)
179
VII
38
43
39
(60 boys and 60 girls.)
120
VI
36
82
41
(77 boys and 82 girls.)
159
V
73
86
43
(98 boys and 104 girls.)
202
IV
( 86 boys and 97 girls.)
32
33
30
30
23
32
3
183
III
(101 boys and 99 girls.)
40
37
27
29
22
40
5
200
II
(103 boys and 97 girls.)
49
24
33
32
18
38
6
200
I
(114 boys and 112 girls.)
45
35
44
34
27
33
8
226
Totals
505
218
378
205
166
129
134
125
90
143
22
2115
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