Inaugural address of the mayor, with the annual report of the officers of the city of Quincy for the year 1939, Part 29

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The unsatisfactory lighting conditions in several of the buildings have been brought to my attention, and while I realize that the School Committee cannot do the impossible and convert a thirty or forty year old building into a modern building, we can at least make an effort to improve those conditions which are detrimental to the well-being of the children. I, therefore, recommend that we formulate a plan which will insure within a reasonable time that the school classrooms are adequately lighted.


I recommend that the School Committee give these items their earnest consideration.


I would like to bring to your attention a splendid piece of work that is being done in the schools by a committee that surveyed the professional literature in the extra-curricular field. This work is entitled to recognition. The report submitted by this committee provides an admirable basis for further study.


There are certain fundamental principles underlying the manage- ment of a school system. The School Committee must recognize these principles and be in unison with their executive officer or we cannot hope to maintain an effective and efficient school system. The schools are maintained for the education of the children and they represent an investment of public funds from which the com- munity has reason to expect and demand maximum returns. At this time I present the following:


1. Educational considerations should come first. Those who are employed to serve the educational purposes of the schools should conceive of their employment to that end.


The schools are not maintained to serve those whom they employ.


2. Educational purposes should be served as effectively and as economically as possible-that is, a school system should be operated according to accepted professional standards.


Ineffectiveness or waste due to outmoded practice, inertia or lack of compliance should not be tolerated.


3. A school system should be operated as a school system with unity of purpose and direction.


There is plenty of room for initiative and originality on the part of principals and teachers, and they should be encour- aged to make constructive contributions to the school system of which they are a part, but no school may be maintained as a private enterprise or other than in strict conformity with the principles governing the administration of the sys- tem as a whole.


4. Every activity sponsored by the schools should serve educa- tional purposes and should be such that maximum educa- tional values are derived.


Existing activities should be carefully scrutinized.


For the welfare of the children for whom we have assumed re- sponsibility, the above require your very earnest consideration, your approval, and whole-hearted support. I ask definite action in this matter.


Respectfully submitted, JAMES N. MUIR, Superintendent of Schools.


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CITY OF QUINCY


REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS


MR. JAMES N. MUIR, Superintendent of Schools, Quincy, Massachusetts


MY DEAR MR. MUIR :


I submit the following report on the Trade School, Continuation School, Evening Classes, Evening Vocational Classes, Standardized Tests, Mentally Retarded Children, Special Classes and Physically Handicapped Children.


The Day Trade School


The total enrollment and average membership of the Quincy Trade School for the last five years are given in the table below.


1934-35


1935-36


1930-37


1937-38


1938-39


Enrol.


Av.


Mem.


Enrol.


Av. Mem.


Enrol.


Av.


Mem.


Enrol.


Av


Mem.


Enrol.


Mem.


Auto Mechanics


85


58.SS


77


54.52


79


54.00


79 42


55.06


73


49.21


Electrical.


47


35.42


44


37.63


13


36.13


35.27


40


37.35


Machine


21


18.40


20


17.26


21


17.28


34


26 97


36


32.02


Machine (Co-op- erative)


1


.10


Plumbing


52


34.14


48


34.27


47


34.94


39


34.76


42


34.11


Sheet Metal.


25


18.42


22


17.81


21


17.53


19


18.71


38


34.82


Woodworking


68


56.84


75


55.14


78


54.08


74


48 54


69


52.81


Total Enrollment


299


286


289


287


298


Total Average Membership


222.20


216.63


213.96


219.31


240.32


The figures for 1938-39 are very important as they represent the limit of growth that may be attained in the present building.


The efforts of the Advisory Committee, the School Committee and Superintendent, Mr. Muir, to obtain an addition to the Trade School are well known to all who will read this report and needs no further comment by me other than my thanks and appreciation of their efforts. In fact there has been so much discussion about the Trade School and so many facts reported to the School Committee and Advisory Committee that an annual report is hardly necessary.


Accurate figures for the total cost for the school year 1938-39 have just become available and are worthy of special attention.


The total cost for maintaining the Trade School for 1938-39 in- creased by $2,973.98 to $49.326.46. The table below gives the income to Quincy because of the Trade School for the last two school years:


Av.


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1937-38


Tuition for non-residents


$11,504.02


1938-39 $ 8,328.46


Cash for products made in the school


726.11


734.33


Aid from the Federal Government


3,926.67


5,355.67


Aid from the State of Massachusetts.


13,606.12


16,102.64


Miscellaneous receipts


29.25


23.20


Total Receipts


$29,792.17


$30,544.30


Net Cost to City of Quincy


16,560.31


18,782.16


Note the decrease in tuition for non-residents! It is well to know that this figure will continue to decrease as in a few years the school will be almost completely filled with Quincy residents. The aid from the Federal Government, representing both Smith-Hughes and George-Deen funds will be less for 1939-40 and will grow less each year as Quincy gradually begins to pay part of the salaries of two new instructors whose salaries were to be paid from Federal funds for two years. Two years were completed for one of the in- structors on February 1, 1940.


Much of the increase in total cost was caused by larger expendi- tures for supplies to meet the needs of an increased enrolment, re- placement of obsolete and worn-out equipment and new equipment to handle properly improvements within the trades.


The Continuation School


The Continuation School has been discontinued. During the first part of the school year 1938-39 only five girls were enrolled, two of whom became sixteen before April 1, 1939.


The girls attended the Quincy Point Junior High School one day a week where they could receive a maximum amount of instruction in cooking and sewing. When Mr. Dana Clark, under whose super- vision the Continuation School had been administrated, resigned in April 1939, the State Department agreed with our wish to discon- tinue the Continuation School and it was so done.


Only $347.00 was expended for the school from September 1938 through April 1939, $65.50 of which was furnished by the State. Actually the entire charge for the Continuation School is a pro rated charge representing that part of Mr. Clark's salary which theoretically covered the time he spent supervising the Continua- tion School girls. If this part of Mr. Clark's salary had not been charged to the Continuation School it would have been charged to Coordinate and Auxiliary Agencies.


Evening Classes


The table below shows the fall enrollment in the Evening Aca- demic Classes for the fall of 1938 and 1939.


1938


1939


Algebra


....


49


Mechanical Drawing


80


70


Grammar School Arithmetic


46


36


Grammar School English


66


48


Elementary Typewriting


272


274


Intermediate Typewriting


114


155


Advanced Typewriting


114


127


Elementary Stenography


169


141


Intermediate Stenography


68


99


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Advanced Stenography


89


109


Intermediate Business English.


102


73


Advanced Business English.


200


237


Intermediate Business Arithmetic


55


61


Advanced Business Arithmetic


148


111


Classes for Adult Aliens


173


185


Total Enrollment


1696


1775


The class in Algebra has been held at the request of Fore River Apprentices and was very well attended until Christmas. Type- writing continues to be the most popular subject and more would have enrolled if we had had more typewriters available.


The decrease in elementary stenography and the increase in intermediate and advanced stenography is a healthy sign. I hope the same tendency will continue.


The increase in enrollment in the classes for adult aliens makes it the highest total enrollment for the last three years. In these difficult years it is very essential that the foreign born living here should be trained in American ways of living and government by teachers who have high ideals of living and government. Quincy is fortunate in having the right kind of teachers who have devoted years to this kind of teaching.


Evening Vocational Classes


The Evening Vocational Classes for men engaged in the trades were smaller than usual and applied to but two trades-Sheet Metal and Machine. Four teachers taught seventy-five men, thirty- two of this number were enrolled in sheet metal drafting and forty- three in machine shop practice.


There were not sufficient enrollments to start classes in Auto Mechanics, Plumbing or Electrical work, trades in which classes have been held in the past.


The tuition of thirty-two men was paid during the fall to attend evening vocational classes outside of Quincy. Twelve received in- struction in the various branches of the electrical trade and twenty were scattered among ten different types of classes.


At the request of the Granite Manufacturers Association a class was started this fall in Memorial Salesmanship in which thirty- seven enrolled before Christmas. The attendance has been good for an evening class. This class was made possible by the George-Deen Act under which one-half the cost will be paid out of Federal funds, one-fourth out of State funds and the remaining one-fourth out of funds appropriated by Quincy.


During the school year 1938-39, $1,317.61 was spent for Evening Vocational Classes. The city collected $166.60 in tuition, $478.90 was received from State Funds and $165.14 from Federal Funds which reduced the net cost to $506.97.


Standardized Tests, Mentally Retarded Children and Special Classes


The standardized achievement tests usually given in May of each year were omitted in 1938-39 as an economy measure. I believe teachers, principals and administrators in Quincy are unanimous in their opinion that the omission was no real economy.


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Many teachers, who in the past have groaned over the extra work the giving and correcting of tests entails, have expressed the desire that standardized achievement tests be used in 1939-40.


The usual group intelligence tests were given to grades one and five in October and in December all junior high school pupils for whom there was no Terman Group Test I. Q. were tested with the Terman Group Tests of Mental Ability. Special reports have al- ready been made to all those interested.


One hundred and twenty-two children were referred to various clinics to determine the quality of their intelligence. Ten were found to be normal, forty-three dull normal, sixty-five definitely mentally retarded and four children did not keep the clinic appoint- ments.


'No change has been made in the number of special classes for the mentally retarded and about the same number of pupils are enrolled in them as last year. The number of mentally retarded children is increasing in the north end of the city. For the first time since its establishment there has been a waiting list for the special class located in the Francis W. Parker School. The number of adolescent girls on the list of those three years mentally retarded has increased. If this increase continues the city will soon need another teacher for the older mentally retarded girls.


Physically Handicapped Children


During the school year ending in June 1939 there were twenty- five children scattered throughout the grades who were transported to the class for the physically handicapped. Fourteen children were so handicapped as to require the services of visiting teachers in their home. Eleven of the above children were able to return to their regular school classes in the fall of 1939.


Since the establishment of the class for physically handicapped children at the Thomas B. Pollard School in 1935, fifty-three pupils suffering from ten different types of disease have been enrolled in the class during the past four years. Of this number


21 have returned to their regular schools


1 received her high school diploma from the class


12 have become sixteen and have left school


5 have left the city


4 now require home teaching


1 is deceased


We should be encouraged by the larger number of children who are recovering from their handicaps. Heart disease caused by rheumatic fever keeps the largest number of children from the regular school but in turn a large number of the heart cases im- prove so that eventually they can return to regular class work.


The children in the handicapped class and those receiving home instruction not only make good progress in their work but also acquire excellent habits, attitudes and ideals.


The courage, cheerfulness and cooperation of the handicapped children is very noticeable, furnishing an inspiration to all who know them. The handicapped classroom houses one of the most cheerful groups of children in the city.


Respectfully submitted,


ALBERT H. COCHRANE, Assistant Superintendent of Schools.


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APPENDIX A


STATISTICAL DATA


1. Financial Statement for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1939


REGULAR. AND STATE-AIDED SCHOOLS


I.


Appropriated by City Council (exclusive of Federal Funds) $1,245,000.00


Additional Appropriations 3,605.00


Total available (exclusive of Federal Funds) $1,248,605.00


Expended, Regular and State-Aided Schools (exclusive of Federal Funds)


1,247,397.12


Balance unexpended $ 1,207.88


Itemized Expenditures


Instruction $983,093.56


General Control


22,315.04


Coordinate and Auxiliary Agencies. ... 26,997.18


Travel Outside of State


105.00


Operation of Plant 66 (Outstanding 1939 bill)


7,264.73


Maintenance


24,024.22


Maintenance-Deficit bill 1938


240.00


Maintenance-New Equipment


8,965.11


Miscellaneous


2,279.10


Evening School


2,269.92


Total for regular schools


$1,197,447.59


Trade School $ 45,768.53


Smith-Hughes Fund


1,746.67


George Deen Fund 4,600.00


Continuation School 27.00


Smith-Hughes Fund


104.00


Out of City Industrial


1,636.32


Evening Trade Extension 825.79


77.50


Americanization Work


1,691.89


Total for State-Aided Schools. $ 56,477.70


Less: Smith-Hughes and George


Deen Funds 6,528.17


49,949.53


Total expenditure (exclusive of Federal Funds) $1,247,397.12


George Deen Fund


119,893.73


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II. STATEMENT OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS


Smith-Hughes Fund


Balance from 1938-Trade School $1,746.67 Continuation School .. 104.00


1,850.67


Received, 1939-Trade School $1,695.67


Evening Trade Extension Classes


40.14


1,735.81


Total available $3,586.48


Expended


1,850.67


Balance unexpended


$1,735.81


George Deen Fund


Balance from 1938-Trade School. ..


$500.00


Received, 1939-Trade School


4,710.00


Distributive Occupations 105.00


Total available


$5,315.00


Expended


4,677.50


Balance unexpended $637.50


2. Money Received into the City Treasury as Result of School Department Operation


Tuition :


City of Boston Wards.


$694.49


State Wards


3,995.70


Non-resident pupils :


North Quincy High School.


189.18


Evening School


402.00


Trade School


7,064.67


Evening Trade Extension Classes.


129.20


$12,475.24


State and Federal Reimbursements:


Trade School


$13,606.12


Evening Trade Extension Classes.


481.59


Continuation School (Home School Ex- penditure)


267.75


Continuation, Trade School and House- hold Arts (Cities and Towns). 481.20


Smith-Hughes Fund (Fed. Government)


1,735.81


George Deen Fund (Fed. Government) .. 4,815.00


General School Fund Statement ..


96,984.18


Americanization


828.57


119,200.22


Miscellaneous Receipts :


Hall and gymnasium rentals.


$1,571.00


Miscellaneous (lost books, sale of ma- terial, telephone, etc.)


673.54


Trade School (sale of material, etc.).


730.15


2,974.69


Total Receipts


$134,650.15


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CITY OF QUINCY


3. Itemized Cost Per Pupil for Support of Public Schools (Day, Evening, Summer) for the School Year Ending With June, 1939


(Based on the Average Membership of the Schools)


Items


Aver. per Capita Ex- penditure for Quincy


Aver. per Capita Ex- penditure for 38 Other Cities


Aver. per Capita Ex- penditure for the State


Instruction (Salaries)


$68.76


$80.54


$73.72


General Control


2.06


3.66


3.71


Text-books


1.18


.95


1.13


Other Expenses of Instruction ..


2.83


2.75


2.75


Operation


9.04


11.54


11.39


Repairs, etc.


2.31


3.38


3.28


Libraries


.92


.09


.13


Health


.77


1.77


1.67


Transportation


.78


.62


2.78


Tuition


.05


.15


1.10


Miscellaneous


.18


.79


.81


Total for Support including ordinary repairs


$88.88


$106.24 4.92


$102.47 5.15


Outlay, New Buildings, etc.


.77


Total for Support and Outlay ..


$89.65


$111.16


$107.62


4. General Statistics, December, 1939


Population of the City (U. S. Census of 1930)


72,000


Number of school buildings: Quincy High1, 1; North Quincy


High2, 1; Junior High, 3; Elementary, 19; Annex3, 1; total 1 2 3 25 Teachers in Quincy High School : men, 21, women, 42; total .... 63 Teachers in North Quincy High School: men, 22; women, 55; total


77


Teachers in Junior High Schools: men, 25; women, 67; total .... 92 Teachers in Elementary Schools: men, 2; women, 198; total .... 200


Principals: Quincy High School, men, 1; (asst. principal), 1; North Quincy High School, men, 1; (asst. principal), 1; Junior High Schools, men, 3; Elementary Schools, men, 9'; women, 2; total 18


Supervisors and Directors: Americanization, 1; drawing, 1; health education, 1; music, 2; teaching aids, 1; total.


6


Special teachers: librarians, 5; drawing, 1; music, 1; instru- mental music, 1 (part time); special class teachers, 9; teachers of physically handicapped children, 3; health in- structors, 2; total 22


Trade School teachers: men, principal, 1; teachers, 14; total .... 15


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Evening School teachers: men, 7; women, 11; total $ 18


Evening Trade Extension Classes: men, 5; total G 5


Americanization teachers: women, 5; total


Total number of different teachers 513


General Control:


Superintendent, 1; Asst. Superintendent, 1; Director of Guidance and Research, 1; Secretary to Superintendent, 1; Bookkeeper, 1; Clerks, 2; total


7


Clerks: Quincy High School, 2; North Quincy High School, 2; Junior High Schools, 3; Trade School, 1; total 8


Coordinate and Auxiliary Agencies :


Supervisor of Attendance, 1; Nurses, 4; Physicians, 2; Ad- justment Service, 28; total 8 9


Custodians and Janitorial Service :


Chief Custodian, 1; Engineer, 1; Custodians, 22; Asst. Jan- itors, 7; Cleaners, 11; Laborer, 1; total 43


Total number of different persons employed by the School Department 579


1 Trade School located in Quincy High School Building.


2 Six-year high school.


3 Offices of Supervisors located in Annex.


4 One also included in Junior High Schools.


5 Two teach also in Quincy High School.


6 Four teach also in Trade School.


7 One teaches also in Junior High School.


8 One is Supervisor of Americanization.


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5. Brief Description of School Property, Also the Value of Schoolhou ses and Lots, Etc., January 1, 1940


BUILDINGS


Date of


Occupation


Wood or Brick


No. of Stories


Condition


Heating Apparatus


Assembly Halls


Number of


Schoolrooms


Assessed Value of Land


Assessed Value


of Building


Value of


Equipment


Total


Sq. Ft. in Lot


Quincy High (Academic) 1 2. (Trade) 1 3


1924


B


3


Good


Steam


1


41


$122,000


$875,000


$108,897


$1,105,897


146,279


North Quincy High1 4


1927


B


3


Good


1


57


45,000


955,000


65,324


1,065,324


188,062


Central Junior High1 2 Portable


1907


B


3


Good


Steam Steam Hot Air Steam


1


25


45,500


230,500


20,198


296,198


85,348


South Junior High1


1927


B


3


Good


Fair


Steam


Steam


1


16


14,000


180,000


6,450


200,450


137,300


Atherton Hough?


1911


B


2


Fair


Steam


1


17


15,000


210,000


14,809


239,809


77,040


Coddington8


1909


B


3


Good


Steam


1


13


108,000


115,000


5,731


228,731


56,785


Cranch


1900


B


2


Good


Steam


9


15,000


61,000


2,000


78,000


62,6 '8


Daniel Webster


1917


B


2


Fair


Steam


1


16


18,300


374,000


7,098


399,398


126,388


Francis W. Parker


1917


B


2


Good


Steam


1


16


25,000


260,000


6,900


291,900


80,893


Gridley Bryant9


1896


B


2


Fair


Steam


....


13


5,500


118,000


5,113


128,613


53,475


John Hancock


1886


B


3


Good


Steam


....


10


12,000


53,000


2,000


67,000


106,255


Lincoln


1892


B


2


Good


Steam


....


12


6,500


56,000


1,800


64,300


69.841


...


2


1


26


22,000


535,000


43,706 24,851


600,706


193,917


Quincy Pnt. Junior High1 5


1928


B


2


...


18


Adams6


1913


B


W


1


Poor


700


700


24,851


2


Good


....


...


6


...


CITY OF QUINCY


Massachusetts Fields10


1896


B B


2


Good Good Good


Steam Steam Steam Steam


1


18


21,300 18,000


269,500 147,000 205,000 145,000


11,647 7,980 7,519 7,980


159,480


50,373


Nathaniel S. Hunting


1929


B


2


Good


Good


Steam


2


20


13,400


3,000 4,500


221,400 67,500


123,831


Squantum


1919


B


1


Good Good


Steam Steam


1


17


12,500


8,945


228,945


76,842


Thomas B. Pollard1


1920


B


1


B


2


Good Good


Steam Steam Steam


1


20


10,000


80,000


3,500


93,500


50,240


Willard1


1891


B


21/2 2


Good


1


12


24,000


136,000


6,450


166,450


94,672


Annex 13


1922


W


21/2


Poor


Steam


....


17,000


17,000


184,346


North Quincy Athletic Field


...


....


....


...


1Cafeterias, gymnasiums, special rooms and shops: Quincy High, 15; Trade, 6; North Quincy High, 25; Junior Highs, 27; Thomas B. Pollard, 1; Willard, 1.


"Assembly hall used for classroom purposes.


3Valuation of Trade School furniture included in Quincy High school valuation.


*East wing addition occupied September, 1931. West wing addition occupied September, 1936.


5Quincy Point Junior High School valuation of land and building and the square feet in lot included in Daniel Webster School figures. 6Addition of four rooms occupied September, 1931. "Addition of nine rooms and assembly hall occupied January, 1930.


$Auditorium and four classrooms used for Quincy High School Commercial classes. 9Addition of four rooms occupied September, 1930. 10 Addition of ten rooms occupied September, 1924.


11 Addition of nine rooms and assembly hall occupied March, 1930.


12 Addition of eight rooms and assembly hall occupied September, 1932.


13 Located on Quincy High School lot. Valuation of land and building included in Quincy High School figures. Formerly Home Making School. Offices of Supervisors now located in Annex.


REPORT OF SCHOOL DEPARTMENT


302,447 172,980


101,987 243,470


Merrymount


1929


Montclair11


1912


B


2


1


17


14,000


10


6,500


Quincy 12


1907


B


3


1


6


10,500


205,000 52,500 207,500


80,000


2,500


98,500


78,626


Washington


1903


10


....


Total.


....


...


17


448


$617,000


$5,550,000


$379,598


$6,546,598


...


....


2


10


...


226,519


84,314


58,286


16,000


Wollaston2


1912


B


10


447


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CITY OF QUINCY


6. Report of Attendance Department Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1939


School


No. of Cases


Referred


No. of Calls


* (see note)


No. of Cases


of Truancy


Handled by


Att. Dept.


All Known Cases of


Truancy


Quincy High


349


466


40


50


North Quincy High


181


268


9


55


Central Junior High


314


377


31


38


Central Portable


37


58


5


5


South Junior High


244


291


17


17


Quincy Point Junior High ..


132


155


3


6


Adams


21


35


2


11


Atherton Hough


25


42


4


8


Coddington


6


9


....


1


Cranch


4


4


....


....


Daniel Webster


11


26


....


2


Francis W. Parker


35


42


....


2


John Hancock


15


27


1


1


Massachusetts Fields


6


10


1


5


Merrymount


3


1


1


4


Nathaniel S. Hunting


3


3


....


....


Quincy


13


21


....


3


Thomas B. Pollard


45


61


8


8


Washington


7


7


6


6


Willard


86


92


6


10


Wollaston


5


8


....


....


Trade


89


112


12


20


Continuation


3


4


....


....


Evening School


4


5


....


....


Boston Trade for Girls.


3


6


....


....


Total


1681


2185


149


258


1


1


....


....


15


19


3


4


Lincoln


....


....


....


2


Montclair


24


32


....


....


Coddington Special


Gridley Bryant


Squantum


....


....


....


*Includes number of home visits, conferences with principals, teachers, pupils, social agencies, court officials and court appear- ances.


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Employment Certificates Issued for the Year Ending December 31, 1939


Boys


Girls


Total


Educational Certificates, Form I:


16 to 18 years of age


182


182


364


18 to 21 years of age .. Form J (Special)


540


408


948


2


1


3


Employment Certificates (14 to 16 years of age) :


Form C (Regular)


8


....


8


Form E (Temporary)


20


2


22


Form D (Regular-Nonresident ) ..


1


....


1


Special Certificates:


6


6


Total


753


599


1352


Total number issued in 1938


1192


Total number issued in 1939.


1352


Increase for year


160


Home Permits


HARRY G BURNHAM, Supervisor of Attendance.


450


CITY OF QUINCY


7. Report of Hearing and Eyesight Tests 1939-1940*


Sight Tested


School


Defective in


Number


Examined Eyesight


Parents Notified


Quincy High


1955


48


48


North Quincy High


2249


102


102


Central Junior High


970


86


47


South Junior High


820


70


69


Quincy Point Junior High ..


653


23


23


Adams


417


14


13


Atherton Hough


443


19


14


Coddington


182


6


6


Cranch


189


12


12


Daniel Webster


417


14


14


Francis W. Parker


401


18


14


Gridley Bryant


198


15


15


John Hancock


229


7


7


Lincoln


320


21


18


Mass. Fields


470


27


17


Merrymount


201


8


8


Montclair


464


14


9


Nathaniel S. Hunting


237


12


6


Quincy


392


23


20


Squantum


136


4


2


Thomas B. Pollard.


368


10


9


Washington


174


10


8


Willard




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