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Teachers of superior ability and fitness for their important call- ing are in demand. In order, therefore, to secure and retain the services of such, our inducements must equal those of other cities. A reduction of salaries would result in a low average of teachers and a corresponding grade of schools, which no city can afford to maintain. The children and youth of our community have a claim upon us for the best preparation we can give them for their life- work ; and we are bound, by every moral obligation, to meet their claim by placing over them teachers of superior character, apti- tude, and qualifications. From every consideration, therefore, we conclude that it is wise to be exacting in requirements, and to award such compensation as will attract and retain teachers of a high order of endowments ; and that, in all matters pertaining to education, a liberal policy is true economy. It has been well said, " It is universally true, that any public institution will give back to a community a benefit commensurate with the support and the sympathy which it receives from that community."
137
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
SCHOOLHOUSES.
The new building on School Street and the one on Tufts Street were completed in December, 1884, and occupied by schools at the beginning of the winter term, Jan. 5. The building constructed on the site of the Lincoln Schoolhouse, which was burned Oct. 22, 1884, was completed in August last, and occupied by schools at the beginning of the school year, Sept. 14.
CUMMINGS SCHOOLHOUSE.
Cost of building, including heating-apparatus
$12,270 00
66
land, 11,300 feet
2,373 00
furniture
714 00
Total cost
$15,357 00
DAVIS SCHOOLHOUSE.
Cost of building, including heating-apparatus .
$12,606 00
Jand .
5,000 00
furniture
726 00
Total cost
$18,332 00
LINCOLN SCHOOLHOUSE.
Cost of building, including heating-apparatus .
$13,505 00
land, 17,662 feet
1,236 00
furniture
744 00
$15,485 00
138
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TABLE SHOWING THE NAME, LOCATION, DATE OF ERECTION, ESTIMATED VALUE, AND CAPACITY OF THE SEVERAL SCHOOL-BUILDINGS.
NAME.
LOCATION.
When built.
No. of fect in
lot.
Estimated
value.
No. of rooms.
High
.
Highland Avenue
1871
$44,000
9
Forster
.
Sycamore Street
1866
32,693
39,422
13
Prescott .
Pearl Street
1867
21,444
42,000
12
Edgerly .
·
Cross Street
1871
26,428
43,100
8
Davis
Tufts Street .
1884
29,584
18,333
4
L. V. Bell
·
Vinal Avenue .
1874
22,262
43,000
12
Cummings
·
School Street .
1884
11,300
15,357
4
Prospect Hill .
.
Washington Street
1848
25,313
20,600
6
Brastow .
Medford Street
1861
10,019
6,250
2
Bennett .
Joy Street
1868
20,560
8,300
4
Jackson .
Poplar Street .
1861
11,212
8,300
4
Webster .
Webster Avenue
(Before
1842
9,360
2,600
1
Morse
Summer Street
(Purchased
1872
6,000
4,750
2
Spring Hill
Rear of Harvard Street .
1850
4,991
1,700
1
Franklin .
Somerville Avenue
1846
33,017
14,300
4
Harvard .
.
Beacon Street .
1851
9,810
2,600
1
Highland
Highland Avenue
1880
23,260
33,000
8
Lincoln .
Broadway
1885
17,662
15,487
4
Cedar Street
Cedar Street
1843
800
$398,199
112
PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE WANTS.
Demands for additional school accommodations, consequent upon the rapid increase of population in our city, are ever recurring. School-buildings, containing eighty schoolrooms, have been con- structed in this city within the last twenty years.
With one exception, all schoolrooms owned by the city are occupied by schools. Two schools are in basements of school- buildings, and two are occupying unsuitable rooms in Clarendon Block. The attendance of pupils of the ninth class of the Forster School is restricted to one session only, each day. This expedient must be resorted to in other sections of the city, when the custom- ary semi-annual additions are made to the primary schools.
While the population of the city continues to increase as hereto- fore, the necessity will exist for the erection of one or two new schoolhouses each year. In addition to the two school-buildings called for by the school board at the beginning of this year. for the accommodation of pupils in Wards Three and Four, a building is much needed in the southern section of Ward Two.
1868
11,050
S,300
4
Union
Prospect Street
1869
29,109
26,000
Beech Street
Beech Street
-
139
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Failure to provide promptly for the necessities of the present causes great inconvenience, and imposes upon the future burdens which should be borne, if possible, when urgent demands for them occur.
TEACHERS.
Ten teachers have resigned during the year, nineteen have been elected, and one teacher has died.
ELECTED.
Mr. Herbert L. Morse, sub-master in the L. V. Bell School.
Mr. Fred B. Hall, teacher in the High School.
Miss Minnie L. Wentworth, teacher in the Forster School. Miss Amy C. Hudson, teacher in the Prescott School. Miss L. Gertrude McIntire, teacher in the Prescott School. Miss Elizabeth Waldron, teacher in the Prescott School. Miss Priscilla A. Merritt, teacher in the Davis School.
Miss Hattie E. Adams, teacher in the L. V. Bell School.
Miss Maria H. Macurdy, teacher in the Prospect-hill School.
Miss Mary B. Smith, principal of the Bennett School. Miss Lizzie W. Parkhurst, teacher in the Bennett School. Miss Minnie S. Turner, teacher in the Bennett School. Miss Alice I. Norcross, principal of the Webster School.
Miss Bertha L. Emerson, teacher of the Spring-hill School. Miss Hattie L. Furber, teacher in the Franklin School. Miss Florence N. Robbins, teacher in the Highland School. Miss Annie S. Browne, teacher in the Highland School.
Miss Annie C. Thayer, teacher in the Lincoln School.
Miss Evelyn E. Getchell, teacher in the Lincoln School.
RESIGNED.
Miss Augusta A. Roberts, principal of the Bennett School, after twenty-four years of faithful, valuable, and unintermitted service in our public schools.
Miss Ellen H. Wilde, teacher in the Forster School.
Miss Clara G. Fogg, teacher in the Prescott School.
Miss Mary L. Lewis, teacher in the Prescott School.
Miss Elizabeth Waldron, teacher in the Prescott School.
Miss H. V. Hathaway, teacher in the Edgerly School.
140
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Miss Frances J. Emerson, teacher in the L. V. Bell School. Miss Sarah E. Pennock, principal of the Brastow School. Miss Mary L. Longfellow, principal of the Webster School. Miss Emma J. Rowley, teacher of the Spring-hill School.
Miss Alice B. Chadwick, a highly esteemed teacher in the Lin- coln School, died at her home in Peabody, April 19, after a pro- tracted illness.
The school committee, at their meeting next succeeding the time of her death, passed the following resolutions : -
Resolved, That in the death of Miss Chadwick, the city has lost a faithful and devoted teacher, who, by her wise administration, won the love of her pupils and the confidence of their parents.
Resolved, That the sincere sympathy of the school board of Somerville is extended to the family of the deceased in their great affliction.
Whole number of teachers . 121
Male teachers, 10 ; female teachers, 111.
Number of teachers in the high school
Male teachers, 3 ; female teachers, 6. .
9
Number of teachers in the grammar schools 63
Male teachers, 6 ; female teachers, 57. Number of teachers in the primary schools . · One teacher of vocal music.
48
Within the last twenty years, two hundred and thirty-seven teachers have been elected, one hundred and ten have resigned, and seven have died.
Of the one hundred and twenty-one teachers in our public schools, one was first elected previous to 1860 ; eight between 1860 and 1870; forty-six between 1870 and 1880; sixty-six since the beginning of 1880.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Salaries.
When Elected.
High
George L. Baxter
$2,400
1867
66
·
66
Fred B. Hall
1,000
1885
66
Sarah W. Fox .
1,200
1868
Sarah F. Litchfield
850
1880
66
Fannie W. Kaan
850
1882
66
Eudora Morey .
800
1882
66
Laura E. Giddings
800
1882
Forster
John S. Hayes .
1,800
1878
Mary E. Northup
675
1878
Mary E. Stiles .
600
1883
Agnes L. Adams
600
1884
66
Minna L. Wentworth
600
1885
Lizzie F. Clement
57
1884
Alice A. Batchelor
575
1877
Addie S. Winnek
575
1883
66
Martha H. Pennock .
550
1873
Leila V. Colby .
550
1879
66
Annie S. Gage .
550
1883
66
Lizzie G. Perry
550
1878
66
Nora F. Byard .
350
1884
16
Mary A. Osborne
500
1885
Prescott
G. A. Southworth
1,900
1873
66
Anna M. Bates.
700
1874
66
.
Adelaide Reed .
650
1877
66
.
Amy C. Hudson
600
1885
L. Gertrude McIntire
600
1885
Emma M. Cate
600
1882
66
Abbie A. Anderson
600
1878
66
Amelia I. Sears
600
1873
66
Catharine T. Brown .
575
1868
Clara Taylor
575
1871
66
Sarah E. Pratt .
600
1877
Elgina M. Plummer .
550
1877
66
Florence M. Morton .
550
1882
Edgerly
Frank P. Hudson
800
1877
66
Harriette H. Winslow
600
1881
Hattie M. Pierce
575
1882
66
Fannie F. Fuller
575
1884
66
Anna L. Prescott
550
1873
Lillian Nealley .
550
1882
Clara M. Bagley
550
1873
.
Ada Cowles
550
1875
Davis
Lucretia A. Burns
625
1882
.
Frank M. Hawes
1,800
1879
.
Minnie C. Clark
800
1882
Frances M. Guptill
600
1869
142
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS - Continued.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Salaries.
When Elected.
Davis
Florence A. Robinson
$550
1883
Gertrude A. Earle
350
1884
66
.
Luther V. Bell
Robert Bickford
1,800
1879
Herbert L. Morse
1,200
1885
Abbie C. Hunt .
625
1873
66
66
Minnie H. Marden
600
1876
Hattie E. Adams
600
1885
66
6
Ellen M. Gooding
600
1868
66
66
May E. Berry ·
600
1880
66
66
Fannie A. Wilder
600
1874
Emma F. Schuh
600
1874
66
Nellie A. Hamblin
600
1882
Anna M. Snow .
575
1866
66
Elvira Morrill
575
1884
Eliza L. Schuh .
550
1882
Cummings
Lydia J. Page .
625
1869
66
Kate L. O'Brien
425
1883
Augusta M. Houghton
55
1877
Prospect Hill
66
66
Maria H. Macurdy
575
1885
66
66
·
Mary B. Currier
550
1873
66
66
Lucy E. Clark .
350
1884
Brastow
.
Maria Miller
575
1870
66
Helen M. Dodge
350
1884
Bennett
Mary B. Smith
625
1885
Lizzie W. Parkhurst
550
1885
Minnie S. Turner
300
1885
66
Isadore E. Taylor
425
1883
Jackson
Annie E. McCarty
625
1880
66
Maud M. Hobson
550
1879
Lena G. Allen
350
1884
66
Annie E. Crimmings
350
1884
Webster
Alice I. Norcross
625
1885
Clara J. Whittemore
550
1883
66
Annie L. Savage
550
1873
Union
Isabella M. Prince
550
1876
Morse
Henry C. Parker
1,600
1884
66
Stella Hall
600
1884
Pauline S. Downes
600
1872
66
Ella F. Gould .
600
1882
66
Mary A. Haley .
575
1868
66
Laura J. Brooks
575
1883
·
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Mina J. Wendell
675
1882
Anna E. Sawyer
600
1873
66
Annie Coffin
35
1884
Helen Tincker .
650
1872
.
Ellen Ledyard .
575
1874
66
Charlotte I. Houghton
550
1875
.
.
66
66
.
.
Priscilla A. Merritt .
425
1885
.
66
.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS - Concluded.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Salaries.
When Elected.
Beech Street
Mary E. Bosworth
$575
1882
Helen M. Meade
550
1884
Spring Hill
Bertha L. Emerson
550
1885
Franklin
Hattie A. Hills
650
1874
66
Emeline C. Summerhayes .
575
1876
66
Anna C. Damon
550
1879
Caroline S. Plimpton
550
1859
Hattie L. Furber
425
1885
Harvard
Annie E. Robinson
550
1876
Highland
George E. Nichols
1,700
1877
Lilla A. Hayward
675
1881
Alice E. Gage .
600
1884
66
.
S. Adelaide Blood
575
1882
Annie R. Cox .
57
1883
66
Alice P. Lord .
550
1881
66
Sarah E. Pray .
550
1878
66
Hallie M. Hood
500
1884
Annie L. Browne
350
1885
Lincoln
Mary A. Paul
625
1879
Carrie M. Smith
575
1882
Susie A. Mattoon
425
1884
Annie C. Thayer
300
1885
Evelyn E. Getchell
575
1885
Cedar Street
Alice Simpson .
550
1872
66
Alice M. Porter
550
1880
Teacher of Music
S. H. O. Hadley
1,333
1868
PUPILS.
Number of pupils in attendance in January . 5.043
Number of persons between five and fifteen years of age on the first day of May last
. 5,608
Number between eight and fourteen years of age . 3,641
Number in attendance in December ·
. 5,186
In the high school .
378
In the grammar schools 2,558
In the primary schools 2,250
Number over fifteen years of age in December In the high school 332
In the grammar schools . 206
538
.
Jennie Colburn .
600
1875
Florence N. Robbins
600
1885
144
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Whole number registered during the year
In the high school . 471
In the grammar schools 2,717
In the primary schools
3,088
.
6,276
The whole number of pupils registered in all the schools during the year is 1,090 in excess of the whole number in attendance in December. This excess includes 46 graduates of the high school ; 47 pupils who have left the high school within the year, exclusive of the graduates ; 56 graduates of the grammar schools who did not enter the high school ; 941 pupils, exclusive of graduates, who have left the grammar and primary school from all causes: Of this last number, a large per cent left the schools in consequence of removal from the city.
TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PUPILS IN EACH OF THE THIRTEEN CLASSES IN DECEMBER, THE AVERAGE AGE OF PUPILS IN EACH CLASS, AND THE PER CENT THAT THE NUMBER IN EACH CLASS IS OF THE NUMBER IN ALL THE CLASSES.
GRADE.
Class.
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
Average Age.
Per cent.
High .
·
First
21
35
56
18 years 6 mos.
1.08
66
·
Second
23
43
66
17
66
5
66
1.31
Third
34
56
90
16
6
1.73
66
Fourth .
65
101
166
15
66
7
3.20
Grammar
.
First
115
123
238
14
66
66
4.58
.
Second .
141
142
283
14
66
2
5.45
Third
183
189
372
12
66
11
66
7.17
·
Fourth
267
209
476
12
66
3
66
9.18
66
·
Sixth
350
251
601
10
5
6
11.59
Primary
First
334
262
596
9
66
2
66
11.49
·
Second
392
263
655
8
2
66
12.63
Third
539
460
999
6
6
66
19.26
1
Total
2,797
2,389
5,186
.
.
100.00
.
.
Fifth
333
255
588
11
2
11.33
145
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
ATTENDANCE.
It is our constant endeavor to render the schools profitable and attractive. A high order of instruction is furnished in all the grades ; all books and supplies are provided free of cost ; all moral influences, at our disposal, are employed to induce pupils to remain in the schools, and to avail themselves of all the advantages gra- tuitously and liberally afforded them for securing a substantial, ele- mentary education ; but our statistics disclose the discouraging. fact that nearly seventy per cent of all pupils who enter the gram- mar schools, and fifty-eight per cent of all who enter the high school, fail, from necessity or choice, to complete the courses of study prescribed for those schools, and to secure diplomas of graduation.
Average whole number in all the schools for the year . 4,904.1
high school 320.3
grammar schools 2,435.6
primary schools 2,148.2
Average attendance in all the schools for the year . 4,626.6
high school . 309.6
grammar schools 2,323.7
primary schools 1,993.3
Per cent of attendance in all the schools for the year
94.4
high school
96.6
grammar schools
95.4
primary schools 92.9
Number of tardinesses in all the schools for the year
. 2,480
high school
357
grammar schools
932
primary schools
1,191
Number of dismissals in all the schools for the year . 2,305
high school . 504
grammar schools
1,062
primary schools
739
146
ANNUAL REPORTS.
MONTHLY REPORTS OF THE TRUANT-OFFICERS.
1885.
Cases Investigated.
Cases of Truancy.
No. returned to School.
No. sent to House of Reformation.
January .
14
6
1
February
16
6
2
-
March
13
6
6
May
61
35
35
. June
71
51
51
1
September
23
21
21
October
51
37
37
November
39
25
25
-
December
58
38
37
1
Total
346
225
215
2
EDWARD L. ROBINSON, JAIRUS MANN, Truant - Officers.
SCHOOLS.
Three new schools have been established within the year : one grammar school in East Somerville district, one grammar school in Prospect-hill district, and one primary school in West Somer- ville district. The three new buildings contain four schools each.
The primary schools contain 43.39 per cent of the pupils in all the schools, the grammar schools 49.32 per cent, and the high school 7.29 per cent.
Whole number of schools
. 105
High school
1
Grammar schools
58
Primary schools
46
Increase for the year
3
Increase in ten years .
28
Increase in twenty years
.
72
-
-
-
-
·
.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Thirty-five schools of this grade contain one class each ; ten, two classes each; one school contains three classes. Thirty-one of the forty-six primary-school teachers have had a term of service
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
that entitles them to the maximum of salary. The remaining fifteen have taught from one to three years.
Nine teachers in schools of this grade report no case of corporal punishment during the year ; three report one case each ; and five two cases each. A large proportion of all cases reported occurred in comparatively few schools.
Number of primary schools
46
Increase for the year .
1
Number of pupils in attendance in January .
2,258
Number admitted during the year
830
Number promoted to the grammar schools .
528
Number in attendance in December
2,250
Boys, 1,265 ; girls, 985.
49
Number registered during the year
. 3,088
EXHIBIT OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Aver. Whole
Number.
Average
Attendance.
Per cent of
Attendance.
'Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Forster .
.
M. H. Pennock
46.4
44.4
95.6
5
9
66
.
A. S. Gage
49 0
46.6
95.1
9
4
66
N. F. Byard
37.9
35.5
93.8
6
10
Prescott
S. E. Pratt
46.2
44.2
95.5
5
12
66
E. M. Plummer
49.0
45.5
92.8
6
16
.
F. M. Morton .
57.5
54 2
94.2
11
9
Edgerly
A. L. Prescott .
42.4
40.6
95.8
11
7
66
C. M. Bagley .
45.1
42.5
93.4
10
8
Davis
F. A. Robinson
38.2
35.6
93.2
12
6
·
G. A. Earle
41.4
37.3
90.0
26
23
P. A. Merritt .
52.1
48.0
92.1
20
0
L. V. Bell
E. L. Schuh
51.0
46.7
91.6
3
1
Cummings
K. L. O'Brien .
49.4
46.1
93.3
38
15
A. M. Houghton
55.7
51.3
92.1
37
2
Annie Coffin
48.0
45.5
94.2
15
13
Prospect Hill,
66
L. E. Clark
43.8
42.0
95.9
28
17
66
66
C. I. Houghton
44.1
40.1
90.9
35
18
Brastow
·
H. M. Dodge .
43.6
40.3
92.3
17
11
·
L. V. Colby
45.4
43.2
95.1
11
9
L. G. Perry
63.2
58.3
92.2
9
14
Lillian Nealley
49.6
47.4
95 6
12
12
Ada Cowles
46.0
41.9
91.1
17
8
·
.
M. B. Currier .
43.0
40.8
94.9
20
16
.
Average number to a teacher
148
ANNUAL REPORTS.
EXHIBIT OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS - Concluded.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Aver. Whole
Number.
Average
Attendance.
Per cent of
Attendauce.
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Bennett
.
L. W. Parkhurst
44.2
41.0
92.7
30
19
M. S. Turner .
50.9
46.6
91.5
51
19
66
.
I. E. Taylor
51.9
45.4
87.4
43
2
Jackson
M. M. Hobson
42.9
39.7
92.5
37
21
66
.
L. G. Allen
58.3
52.2
89.5
62
21
66
A. E. Crimmings
64.9
62.3
95.7
41
0
Webster
C. J. Whittemore
33.0
28.6
92.9
110
76
Union
I. M. Prince
49.6
47.5
95.8
13
2
Beech Street .
M. E. Bosworth
44.7
42.5
95.1
8
8
66
66
H. M. Meade
.
47.5
45.3
95.2
18
34
Spring Hill
B. L. Emerson
.
53.4
51.0
95.5
15
21
Franklin
.
C. S. Plimpton
57.4
56.0
97.6
25
12
Harvard
A. E. Robinson
42.4
40.3
95.0
73
33
Highland
A. P. Lord
45.1
41.8
92.6
7
9
66
.
A. S. Browne .
27.4
24.8
90.5
10
9
Lincoln .
·
S. A. Mattoon .
50 3
44.5
88.5
21
16
A. C. Thayer .
42.0
37.5
89.3
10
2
Cedar Street .
Alice Simpson .
39.1
35.5
90.8
32
51
66
A. M. Porter
40.6
31.6
77.8
88
62
Total.
2,148.2
1,993.3
92.9
1,191
739
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
At the close of the school year in July last, two hundred and eleven pupils were graduated at the several grammar schools, being thirty in excess of the largest number graduated in any previous year : -
From the L. V. Bell School, 73 : boys, 37 ; girls, 36
" Prescott
51:
25;
26
66 " Morse
30 :
10; 20
66
" Highland
29 :
11;
18
" Forster
28 :
11 ; . .
17
·
S. E. Pray
45.6
42.0
92.1
14
11
H. M. Hood
41.0
37.4
91.0
29
S
·
A. C. Damon .
.
41.4
37.8
91.3
26
40
A. L. Savage .
46.3
44.0
95.0
65
26
.
.
·
.
One hundred and fifty-five of the graduates from the grammar schools entered the high school in September : -
149
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
From the L. V. Bell School, 50 : boys, 23 ; girls, 27
" Prescott
36:
66 16; 20
" Highland 27:
10 : 66 17
" Morse
22 :
. 6
9 ;
66 13
" Forster 66 20: . :
6 ;
14
Number promoted to the first class in July .
:6
66
66 second “ 6. 6.
304
66 " third " 66 . .
355
. .
. . .. " fourth "'
· 474
..
. . fifth
. 502
66
. .
!! sixth
Eighty-nine per cent of all pupils in the grammar schools were promoted at the end of the school year.
Number of grammar schools
58
Increase for the year .
2
Number in attendance in January
2,483
Number received from the primary schools .
528
Number in attendance in December
2,588
Average number to a school
44
Number over fifteen years of age
206
Number registered during the year
. 2,717
EXHIBIT OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Aver. Whole
Number. .
Average
Attendance.
Per cent of
Attendance.
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Forster .
J. S. Hayes
·
66
.
.
M. E. Stiles
·
.
·36.4
34.5
94.8
0
6
A. L. Adams
46.6
44.1
94.7
2
10
F. M. Guptill .
35.8
33.7
94.1
2
9
66
M. L. Wentworth
30 2
28.9
95.7
5
8
.
L. F. Clement .
42.5
40.1
94,3
4
10
A. S. Winnek .
38.5
36.5
94.8
6
26
A. A. Batchelor
54.2
51.2
94.5
13
18
Prescott
G. A. Southworth
59.3
58.3
98.4
0
0
66
Amy C. Hudson
36.2
34.9
96.2
0
11
L. G. McIntire.
34.4
33.2
96.5
4
10
66
-
E. M. Cate
41.7
40.2
96.3
2
4
.
528
·
238
.
28.9
27.9
96.2
1
2
.
·
150
ANNUAL REPORTS.
EXHIBIT OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS - Concluded.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Aver. Whole
Number.
Average
Attendance.
Per cent of
Attendance.
Tardinesses.
Dismissals.
Prescott
·
A. A. Anderson
45.4
43.7
96.2
3
4
66
·
·
A. I. Sears
46.7
44.5
95.4
3
10
60
.
C. T. Brown
.
45.5
43.3
95.1
6
10
Clara Taylor
46.7
45.2
96.7
5
11
Edgerly
.
F. P. Hudson .
40 6
39.4
97.0
4
4
66
.
H. M. Pierce
40.1
38.4
95.7
1
8
66
F. F. Fuller
40.2
38.4
95 5
8
3
Davis
L. A. Burns
39.4
37.9
96.3
9
14
L. V. Bell
.
Robert Bickford
54.1
51.6
95.3
29
21
66
.
H. L. Morse
35.5
33.7
95.0
29
53
66
·
M. H. Marden
40.6
39.5
97.2
5
9
66
·
E. M. Gooding
48.9
47.2
96.6
31
21
66
.
F. A. Wilder
43.2
42.0
97.2
17
15
66
·
E. F. Schuh
46.8
44.1
94.3
30
18
66
N. A. Hamblin
44.5
42.0
94.4
13
4
66
A. M. Snow
53.2
51.7
97.0
17
15
·
Elvira Morrill .
52.2
49.9
95.4
27
18
Cummings
.
L. J. Page
46.4
44.4
95.2
4
2
Prospect Hill,
Helen Tincker
40.7
38.5
94.8
13
12
M. H. Macurdy
44.7
41.7
93.2
18
17
60
66
Ellen Ledyard .
38.8
37.2
95.8
18
11
Brastow
·
·
48.7
46.6
95 5
48
25
Bennett
.
.
48.1
44.0
91.4
74
23
Jackson
·
A. E. McCarty
.
47.7
45.6
95.5
61
31
Webster
A. I. Norcross
32.4
30.5
94.2
129
79
Morse
H. C. Parker
28.4
27.5
96.8
9
8
·
Stella Hall
35.2
33.9
96.3
5
35
·
.
48.9
48.1
98.2
0
2
.
E. F. Gould
54.0
50.6
93.7
23
50
66
.
M. A. Haley
48.1
45.2
94.0
21
27
L. J. Brooks
31.1
30.1
96.9
13
10
Franklin
H. A. Hills
30.4
28.8
94.7
24
16
66
E. C. Summerhayes .
49.2
46.2
93.9
26
22
Highland
G. E. Nichols .
33.9
32.7
96.4
2
16
66
·
Jennie Colburn
47.4
44.6
94.0
3
18
F. N. Robbins
49.6
46.4
93.6
10
33
S. A. Blood
50.9
47.3
92.8
21
51
66
A. R. Cox
·
46.2
44.6
96 5
6
12
Lincoln .
M. A. Paul
30.4
28.8
94.9
12
52
60
C. M. Smith
38.3
35.8
93.5
37
26
Total .
·
2,435.6
2,323.7
95.4
932
1,062
·
H. E. Adams
40.4
38.4
95.0
27
26
M. E. Berry
52.1
50.2
96.4
27
49
·
·
.
48.6
46.2
95.1
18
25
.
.
·
.
A. E. Gage
.
38.1
36.3
95.2
2
27
·
.
.
.
.
·
·
38.6
37.5
96.9
5
5
H. H. Winslow
.
·
·
Maria Miller
.
·
.
P. S. Downes
A. E. Sawyer
.
.
.
·
·
M. B. Smith
·
.
.
66
.
151
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
HIGH SCHOOL.
When this school first occupied the present high-school building, March 4, 1872, it contained 150 pupils and 6 teachers, - a teacher for every 25 pupils. At the present time it contains 378 pupils and 9 teachers, - a teacher for every 42 pupils. The whole num- ber of pupils in attendance in September last was 385, being 70 in excess of the largest number belonging to the school at any previous period. The class that entered the school at the begin- ning of the fall term, numbered 165 pupils. The largest number entered at any former time, was 122.
In consequence of the large addition to the school at the begin- ning of the school-year, it was necessary to place a portion of the pupils in the high-school hall, and to employ an additional teacher.
From present indications, it will be necessary to construct schoolrooms in the high-school hall the coming year, and to employ another teacher.
Whole number of different pupils during the year 471
Largest number at one time 385
Number admitted during the year 175
From our grammar schools . 155
From other schools 20
Number graduated
46
of graduates who entered college . 12
.. who entered Newton Theological Institution . 1
who entered the School of Technology . 4
.: who have left the school during the year. exclusive of graduates 47
Whole number at the present time
378
Average number to a teacher
42
Number over fifteen years of age
332
in course preparatory to college
98
pursuing the regular course . 200
. . pursuing the English course . 80
in the first class on entering the school .
111
at the present time
56
in the second class on entering the school 96
at the present time
66
in the third class on entering the school. . 122
152
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Number at the present time
90
66 in the fourth class on entering the school 170
at the present time 166
Forty-two per cent of all pupils who have entered the high school for the last twenty years have received diplomas of gradua- tion.
Forty-nine per cent of the pupils who entered the school in September, 1881, graduated at the close of the school-year in June last.
Six of the graduates entered Harvard College and the Annex ; two, Tufts College ; two, Boston University ; one, Smith College ; one, Wellesley College ; one, Newton Theological Institution ; four, the Institute of Technology ; two, the Salem Normal School.
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