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45 33
179 25
Miscellaneous supplies and disbursements .
269 73
Balance unexpended
$2,561 55
$2,561 55
Somerville Playgrounds Association.
Amount raised .
$1,446 62
Paid for salaries of supervisors and in-
structors
$983 40
Supplies
269 11
Miscellaneous disbursements .
76 60
Balance unexpended
117 51
$1,446 62
$1,446 62
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61 55
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188
ANNUAL REPORTS.
FIRST REPORT OF THE BANK SAVINGS SYSTEM.
Statement concerning the operation of the School Savings Banks, showing the schools in which they are conducted and facts concerning deposits, from the opening of the system March 1, 1912, to January 1, 1913 :-
Name.
Amount Deposited.
Amount Withdrawn.
Amount Transferred.
Balance Jan. 1, 1913.
Hanscom
$54 10
$7 70
$21 25
$25 15
Bennett
39 80
3 30
3 00
33 50
Knapp
266 03
65 87
73 95
126 21
Perry
69 10
10 65
13 00
45 45
Baxter
134 66
35 51
99 15
Cummings
134 49
77 97
56 52
Pope
307 70
82 75
100 00
124 95
Bell
248 08
80 52
31 00
136 56
Edgerly
638 50
70 45
441 80
126 25
Glines
261 80
18 95
152 50
90 35
Forster
388 15
12 85
242 60
132 70
Bingham
672 21
84 02
344 00
244 19
Morse .
118 52
21 55
42 00
54 97
Burns
182 23
5 20
29 85
147 18
Durell
100 05
29 55
6 00
64 50
Proctor
201 41
21 20
75 25
104 96
Brown
462 35
20 20
304 00
138 15
Highland
556 82
47 55
324 00
185 27
Hodgkins
548 92
29 05
214 75
305 12
Lowe
237 60
17 70
78 25
141 65
$5,622 52
$742 54
$2,497 20
$2,382 78
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
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SOMERVILLE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. OFFICERS, 1912-1913.
President, Frank W. Seabury.
Vice-President, Harry L. Jones. Vice-President, Mary Henleigh Brown. Secretary-Treasurer, Irene Vincent.
Executive Committee :-
Superintendent Charles S. Clark, ex-officio.
Edyth M. Grimshaw, Prescott. Margaret A. Orr, Glines.
Charles W. Hurn, Boys' Industrial Grace Shorey, Forster.
School.
Mary F. Mead, Bingham.
Mary B. Nelson, Hanscom.
Mina J. Wendell, Morse.
Eleanor W. Nolan, Bennett.
Etta R. Holden, Baxter.
Mary S. Richardson, Proctor.
Bessie N. Page, Knapp.
Grace E. Packard, Durell.
Florence E. Locke, Pope.
Alice E. Morang, Burns.
Rena S. Hezelton, Bell.
Alice R. Gould, Brown.
Lucia Alger, Cummings.
Annie L. Dimpsey, Edgerly.
Arthur L. Doe, Hodgkins. Harlan P. Knight, Cutler. Stella M. Holland, Lowe.
The meetings held under the auspices of this association in the year 1912 were as follows :-
February 14-Rev. Edward Cummings of Cambridge. Subject: "Plato as a Twentieth Century Educator."
February 17-Social Evening.
March 28-Discussion of the Federation Platform.
April 10-Rev. Edward Cummings. Subject: "Things We Need to Know and Teach."
October 9-Dr. David Snedden, Commissioner of Education for the State of Massachusetts. Subject: "Problems of Teachers' Re- tirement."
December 11-Mr. Walter Sargent, Professor of Aesthetic and In- dustrial Education, Chicago University. Subject: "Relation Be- tween Utility and Beauty."
Mary E. Soule, Carr.
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ANNUAL REPORTS. 1
SOMERVILLE TEACHERS' CLUB. OFFICERS, 1912-1913.
President, Miss Elizabeth J. O'Neil.
Vice-Presidents, Miss Grace E. W. Sprague.
Miss Grace T. Merritt.
Recording Secretary, Miss Blanche L. Paine. Corresponding Secretary, Miss Alice E. Morang. Treasurer, Miss Olevia M. Woods. Auditor, Miss Katherine Pike.
OBJECT.
The object shall be to secure a close union among the women teachers in Somerville ; to promote the spirit of mutual helpfulness ; to advance professional interests ; to create a deeper sense of the dignity of the profession; to unite the inter- ests of home and school.
PROGRAMME.
January 9-Chafing-dish demonstration, Minnie S. Turner. January 24-Guest night. Mrs. Christabel W. Kidder, reader. February 13-Musicale. Artists: Miss Myra L. Eckoff, Mr. Herbert W. Smith, Mr. Arthur K. Hadley, Mrs. Irene O. Grant. March 12-Reading of Oscar Wilde's comedy, "The Importance of Being Earnest," Professor Thomas Crosby, Brown University. April 9-Musicale. "The History of Scottish Song," Ellen Elizabeth Doane.
April 24-A play, "Lords and Ladies; or, Just for Fun," by club members.
May 28-Annual meeting.
October 8-Opening fall meeting. Addresses by Mrs. Blanche E. Herbert and Mrs. Mary G. Whiting. Reception.
October 21-Special meeting. Subject: "Teachers' Pensions," Mr. Hamilton of the State Board of Education.
November 12-Address, "Equal Suffrage," Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead.
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
At the meeting of the School Board held on January 29, 1912, the following resolution was adopted :-
Miss Mary A. Lawry passed from this life on January 24, after an illness of one day. She was a teacher of great fidelity and earnestness of purpose. In her death the schools lose an enthusiastic and valuable worker. In appreciation of her high character and devoted work for the schools, the School Com- mittee places this expression upon its minutes, and directs that a copy hereof be sent to the family of the deceased.
At the meeting of the School Board held on April 29, 1912, the following notice was given :---
The Superintendent of Schools announced the death on Friday, April 26, of Naomi E. Stevens, teacher in the Bingham School.
192
ANNUAL REPORTS.
CONTENTS OF APPENDIX.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS
Population and school census
School buildings
Teachers
Attendance for year
-
Cost of school maintenance
Teachers' salaries
Results of eye and ear tests
MISCELLANEOUS TABLES
CONCERNING FINANCE
No. of Table
1. Schedule of school property
2. Cost of maintaining schools, school year 1911-1912
3. Cost per capita of maintaining schools, school year 1911-1912
4. Cost of maintaining schools for a series of years
5. Cost per capita for maintaining schools for a series of years
6. Amount spent annually for new school buildings and for re- pairs for a series of years
CONCERNING PUPILS
7. Population and school census
8. Attendance, etc., of the schools for school year 1911-1912
9. Statistics of the high schools, for school year 1911-1912
11. Separate statistics for grammar and primary schools, for school year 1911-1912
12. Admissions to first grade in February and September
13. Number of grammar school graduates, 1912
14. Truant statistics for a series of years
15. Evening school statistics, 1911-1912
16. Grammar school graduates for a series of years
17. Attendance statistics of all schools for a series of years
18. Statistics of the high school for a series of years
19. Promotions, 1912 19-A. Distribution of pupils by ages, October 1, 1912 19-B. Distribution of pupils, 14 but not 15, October 1, 1912
CONCERNING TEACHERS
20 Resignations of teachers, 1912
21. Teachers elected in 1912
22. Leave of absence of teachers
23. Transfers of teachers
24. Number of teachers employed for a series of years STATISTICAL AND GENERAL TABLES
25. Changes in text-books, 1912
26 High school graduation exercises, 1912
27 Grammar school graduation exercises, 1912
28. Organization of school board for 1913
29. Teachers in service January, 1913
30. Officers in service January, 1913
31. School janitors
193
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
1 .- POPULATION AND SCHOOL CENSUS.
Population, state census, 1895.
52,200
Population, United States census, 1900. 61,643
Population, state census, 1905.
69,272
Population, United states census, 1910.
77,236
Children between five and fifteen years of age, October, 1911, by school census ..
12,758
Children between five and fifteen years of age, October, 1912, by school census
12,470
Decrease
288
2 .- SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
1911.
1912.
Change.
Number of school buildings ....
27
27
0
Number of classrooms in use in
June
281
281
0
Valuation of school property ...
$1,507,112
$1,596,041
3 .- TEACHERS.
1911.
1912.
Change.
In high schools.
62
66
+4
In grammar schools.
169
169
0
In primary schools.
83
83
0
In kindergartens. ..
7
8
++1
Total in elementary schools
259
260
+1
Industrial school for boys.
4
4
0
Industrial school for girls.
6
8
+2
Atypical class.
1
1
0
Cadet teachers
2
0
-2
Special
9
10
+1
Total
. . .
343
349
+6
4 .- ATTENDANCE FOR YEAR.
+1911.
*1912.
Change.
Entire enrollment for the year. .
14,301
13,272
-1,029
Average number belonging
11,871
11,710
-161
Average number attending.
11,186
11,083
-103
Per cent. of daily attendance ..
94.2
94.6
+0.4
High school graduates.
277
290
+19
Grammar school graduates
805
781
-24
1
5 .- COST OF SCHOOL MAINTENANCE.
₹1911.
*1912.
Change.
Salaries of teachers.
$293,267.30
$299,193.32
+$5,926.02
Salaries of officers ..
7,125.80
7,515.82
+390.02
Cost of books and supplies
24,968.48
30,319.38
+5,350.90
Cost of light.
4,750.65
5,995.20
+1,244.55
Cost of janitors' services,
26,031.12
30,219.41
+4,188.29
Cost of fuel.
14,907.12
15,675.94
+768.82
Telephones
528.63
511.81
-16.82
Total cost of day and
evening schools
371,579.10
389,430.88
+17,851.78
Per capita cost.
29.07
30.66
+1.59
.
. .
194
ANNUAL REPORTS. 1
៛1911.
*1912.
Change.
Cost of high school in- struction
73,302.95
72,930.75
-372.20
Per capita cost. ·
42.69
40,25
-2.44
6 .- MISCELLANEOUS.
1911.
1912.
Change.
Paid for new school
buildings . . ... Repairs and permanent improvements
$7,148.74
$35,527.55
+$28,378.81
18,911.04
14,163.46
-4,747.58
Total school expendi-
tures
397,638.88
439,121.89
+41,483.01
Number of dollars spent to maintain schools out of every $1,000 of valuation
5.52
5.56
+0.04
Valuation of city.
67,284,066.00
69,632,540.00
+2,348,474.00
Number of dollars spent
for all school pur-
poses out of every $1,000 of valuation ...
5.98
6.16
0.18
+Fiscal year.
*School year.
Cost of the Schools. The total amount spent for the main- tenance of the schools of Somerville for the municipal year 1912 is $392,687.64. This does not include the sums spent on schoolhouse repairs and for new buildings. It does cover the amount paid for the care of school buildings, for janitors' services, fuel, light, and school telephones. This expenditure is wholly in charge of the city government.
The amount paid for janitors is.
$27,965.46
The cost of fuel is.
15,758.24
The cost of light is.
5,523.61
The cost of the school telephones is
530.99
A total cost of.
$49,778.30
The cost per capita.
3.92
Cost of repairs.
$24,620.38
The second important expenditure is wholly under the control of the Board, and is covered by what is known as the "School Contingent" appropriation. The following is the itemized account :-
Officers' salaries
$7,498.59
Books
$9,141.79
Stationery
6,538.68
Laboratory and manual training plies
sup-
3,120.92
Bookkeeping blanks
412.95
Maps, charts, etc.
222.04
Drawing
1,172.74
Amounts carried forward .
$20,609.12
$7,498,59
195
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Amounts brought forward .
$20,609.12
$7,498.59
Typewriters and supplies.
256.87
Printing
1,664.25
Telephones
195.93
Postage
251.84
Travel
255.27
Expressage
107.84
Bookbinding
872.81
Board of truants
817.96
Census
251.92
Kindergarten supplies
273.39
Graduation exercises ..
435.50
Repairing and tuning pianos
57.75
Tuition for pupils in Boston.
207.17
Tuition for pupil in Medford school ..
15.00
Industrial school for boys.
1,543.09
Industrial school for girls.
409.11
Atypical school ...
15.23
Evening Practical Arts Classes.
15.00
Cooking Classes, High School.
274.73
Dental supplies.
80.51
Adding machine.
220.50
Miscellaneous
700.99
Total for school supplies, etc.
29,531.78
Total outlay on school contingent account.
$37,030.37
Appropriation
32,000.00
Deficiency
$5,030.37
The third, and by far the largest, element of the cost of schools is the sum spent for the salaries of teachers. The following shows the monthly payments :-
January
$30,190.93
February
30,346.01
March
30,750.05
April
30,021.00
May
30,059.27
June
29,903.06
September
29,858.50
October
31,341.32
November
31,941.63
December
31,467.20
Total
$305,878.97
Amount of appropriation
306,000.00
Balance
$121.03
The estimate of the School Board for teachers' salaries amounted to $315,500. The expenditure was $9,621.03 less.
The total outlay for all school purposes in 1912 was as follows :-
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
1
Care of schoolhouses
$49,778.30
Administration
7,498.59
School supplies.
29,531.78
Teachers' salaries.
305,878.97
Total for school maintenance
$392,687.64
Paid for repairs.
24,620.38
Total for all school purposes
$417,308.02
Each dollar of the sum spent for the support of schools has been divided in the following proportion :-
1907.
1908. $0.070
1909. $0.071
1910. $0.070
1911. $0.071
1912. $0.071
Heat and light
0.057
0.051
0.052
0.054
0.053
0.054
Administration
0.016
0.015
0.015
0.017
0.019
0.020
School supplies.
0.072
0.072
0.061
0.071
0.068
0.076
Teachers' salaries.
0.785
0,792
0.801
0.788
0.789
0.779
Total
$1.000
$1.000
$1.000
$1.000
$1.000
$1.000
Per Capita Cost. The proper method of comparison of the cost of schools year by year is to consider the sum spent for each pupil in the average membership. In this computa- tion we exclude the cost of evening schools, the sum being so large as possibly to mislead. The following shows
THE PER CAPITA COST OF DAY SCHOOLS FOR 1911 AND 1912.
High Schools.
Grammar and Primary Schools.
All Day Schools.
1911.
1912.
In- crease.
1911.
1912.
In- crease.
1911.
1912.
In- crease.
Instruction .
$42 85
$41 13
-$1 72
$21 18
$21 99
$0 81
$24 68
$24 97
0 29
Supplies
4 78
5 63
0 85
1 36
1 71
0 35
2 06
2 34
0 28
Care
5 08
5 39
0 31
3 45
3 94
0 49
3 77
4 16
0 39
Total
$52 71
$52 15
-$0 56
$25 99
$27 64
$1 65
$30 51
$31 47
$0 96
Including the cost of maintenance of evening schools, the per capita cost is as follows :-
1909.
1910.
1911. $23.50
1912.
Cost of instruction.
$24.00
$23.05
$23.61
Cost of supplies.
1.76
2.03
1.95
2.12
Cost of care.
3.66
3.59
3.62
3.99
Total
$29.48
$28.67
$29.07
$29.72
An examination of these tables shows that we have paid $1.72 more for the instruction of cach pupil in the high school than in 1911, and eighty-five cents more per pupil for supplies.
The grammar and primary schools have cost eighty-one cents more per pupil for instruction, and thirty-five cents more for supplies.
Janitors' salaries.
$0.070
CLASSIFIED STATEMENT SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENDITURES CONTROLLED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD.
SCHOOLS.
Regular.
Substitute.
Special,
Kindergarten.
Toul
Administration
Books.
White Paper.
Manila Paper.
Books.
Pens, etc.
Bookbinding.
Manual Training Supplies.
Drawing Supplies.
Laboratory Supplies.
Bookkeeping Blanks+
Cooking Supplies.
Typewriters and Supplies.
Mending "Tape Paste, etc.
Piano Tuning and Repairing
Tuition and Board of Truants,
Miscellaneous.
Totals
$73,725 00
$721 00
$406 35
$74.852 35
$3,352 76
$675 04
$195 80
430 38
$189 68
$70 08
$378 33
$1,146 89
$511 78
$040 91
$144 40
$274 23
$394 72
$22 62
$14 57
$7 00
$310 42 8 3
$163 69
$9,412 43
Prescott
10,411 25
100 75
557 18
11,369 18
279 54
134 80
33 74
11 08
46 37
21 21
28 83
$2 65
95 37
38 6
3 65
....
11 90
739 73
7.111 38
50 25
196 56
8,438 07
140 17
G6 41
67 34
4 12
36 87
8 85
7 82
79 31
41 01
1 00
7 00
12 99
477 30
Bennett
4,001 88
42 00
114 20
945 00
5,103 08
67 77
65 95
29 94
19 90
28 43
3 75
2 21
28 1:
22 50
115 80
49 61
11 75
8 75
17 05
12 75
1.008 79
4,342 81
100 25
145 85
4,588 91
119 92
20 52
25 00
15 77
1 87
3 00
7 6
24 58
1 10
1 19
2 00
Perry
0,433 50
92 50
594 54
11,050 54
221 94
04 49
35 57
00 11
2 00
108 11
44 82
1 35
14 31
10 12
18 €0
618 37
8.626 12
61 75
562 62
9,250 49
158 04
57 93
18 00 .
15 08
48 41
43 86
12 9
99 57
50 42
11 03
98 65
49 75
1 20
5 83
14 85
28 25
962 37
13,858 84
42 50
723 69
323 02
73 21
94 55
95 08
49 GO
20 90
123 97
85 57
30
6 28
6 00
9 61
90 78
16 98
1.034 08
14,065 13
72.50
702 92
14,840 55
471 62
45 23
21 56
14 55
51 51
106 06
58 77
1 80
7.74
2 00
9 21
9 72
18 13
1,011 57
14,221 32
108 00
766 84
15,096 16
472 55
36 28
15 47
19 25
103 77
76 63
1 55
5 97
9 75
7 45
17 74
949 40
0,477 63
86 75
530 55
10,094 93
260 27
60 49
04 61
50 13
13 95
18 07
70 62
51 60
15 29
19.08
1 10
4 20
75
1 80
3 50
10 39
12 20
18 19
717 73
10,439 75
735 54
11,259 04
206 64
136 60
50 72
29 45
32 22
158 20
41 02
40
4 74
85
24 08
10 85
717 43
12,048 75
280 25
680 57
13,015 57
371 21
15 21
17 86
40 46
32 57
39 TA
93 02
43 85
3 CO
6 30
13 8
22 89
815 07
2,045 00
66 25
40 80
2,152 05
12 87
20 53
21 69
2 5G
11 60
17 41
4 62
33 37
59 34
26 04
11 64
3 65
1,111 47
110 57
26 55
47 52
14 95
14 70
4.95
11 75
174 22
1,555 71
Girls' Industrial
5,697 50
5,697 50
13 44
22 38
5 60
7 37
12 55
2 90
0 90
3 21
2 3
4 95
141 00
6 40
1 15
17 25
35 66
446 90
16 86
1 0
$1,040 13
387 00
1,976 36
Evening, Industrial
67 50
67 50
Totals
$289,510 59
$2,421 75
$10,179 25
$3,767 38
$7,498 59
$9,266 29 $2,600 55
$1,195 54
$750 83
$1,185 27
$320 42
$523 16
$3,836 92
$1,781 89
$643 61
$298 79
$695 37
$1,718 66
$142 13
$186 07
$57 75
$505 37
$283 45
$1,040 13
$1,719 20
$30,284 51
Less stock on hand sent out to schools
$752 73
Maps
Bland
Pencils,
and Charts.
Kindergarten Supplies.
High
1.115 00
141 50
190 29
750 00
8,196 79
36 58
4 40
32 01
41 26
66 65
7 22
63 51
1 50
1 57
6 00
15 06
616 82
Baxter
1.432 69
40 50
694 60
12,167 79
162 91
48 41
31 02
54 08
51
37 47
6 05
Pope
Bell
2,910 38
27 50
61 50
2,999 44
81 94
17 10
22 60
63
6 60
2 82
Cummings
10,086 50
49 75
572 22
10,708 17
474 99
107 79
57 70
18 15
12 41
9 91
Edgerly
10,898 87
44 50
555 22
992 50
266 72
45 25
69 59
9 37
49 33
12 16
28 91
69 61
39 67
9 35
6 35
4 00
6 93
17 00
627 24
Morse
5,559 51
81 75
186 84
5,828 10
173 66
08 63
50 27
5 75
27 65
63
9 92
2 89
4 19
12 76
15 24
31 75
70 57
93 85
1 30
7 94
3 00
Brown
8,917 62
35 50
470 86
0,423 98
391 33
54 21
26 98
13 70
31 13
0 48
7 87
16 GG
Lincoln
0,200 24
38 00
137 02
6,375 26
201 76
28 58
36 87
2 9
14 74
9 48
Cutler
3,798 24
28 50
172 88
3,999 62
224 98
144 62
70 33
16 59
60 57
Atypical
815 00
815 00
89
1 67
2 86
10
92 03
Boys' Industrial
3,990 18
100 00
4,090 18
11 73
3 0
....
19 80
130 94
412 59
Evening, High
4,142 50
3 96
9 00
1 80
572 05
Evening, Bell
7 85
12 03
1 15
71 18
Evening, Highland
3 10
1 10
94 91
Stock
Administration
250 10
682 23
30 85
212 01
199 21
297 69
1.715 32
Miscellaneous
303 50
303 50
15 00
15 00
Dental Service
55 00
205 03
6.524 91
82 16
51 75
28 41
6 72
25 85
1 95
17 63
90
Burns
2,745 12
40 75
68 52
2,854 39
77 77
-19 70
15 08
12 56
157 41
14 01
289 02
Highland
83 75
Hodgkins
55
2 92
1 45
1 92
3.05
5 95
19 67
₲31 59
183 09
3 15
165 42
2 70
282 13
58 74
40
9 00
7 06
24 00
17 82
161 31
356 63
$7,498 59
25 98
41 94
4,142 50
2,704 00
21 1-4
7 91
753 00
758 00
4 93
3 15
GO 71
55 87
14 11
19 38
13 00
25 67
5 1.
Proctor
18 00
414 39
Durell
6,261 88
5 00
15 19
110 00
Lowe
15 50
355 05
4 6
3 74
1 15
24 50
21 75
12 75
1 98
4 00
15 8
12 87
158 03
Glines
. .. .. .
1 2
17 61
675 82
Forster
Bingham
Carr
100 63
69 67
13 55
11 55
280 83
Knapp
17 68
548 08
40
2 18
5 00
Travel $13 32 11 23
Postage $30 35
SALARIES
- TEACHERS
Graduation Expenses.
Expressage.
Printing. $445 46
Hanscom
$1.079 88
286 65
452 03
232 98
44 83
30 09
1 05
12,491 00 14,025 03
176 92
124 55
14 51
38 59
12 34
1 01
.
$305,878 97
$869 21
$426 53
Amount spent for supplies from Contingent, 1912
. $29,531 78
2,704 00
100 12
90 00
1 72
17 65
1 0
$281 37
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
According to the Annual Report of the State Board of Education for 1911-'12, the amount yielded for each child in the average membership of the public schools was $33.31, giving to Somerville the rank of 106 among the cities and towns of Massachusetts. In 1910-'11 the rank was 109. By the same report it is shown that Somerville appropriated to the support of the public schools $5.95 for each thousand dollars of valuation, and had the rank of 138. The year before the amount spent was $5.75 and the rank 132.
The amount spent for the fiscal year 1912 was $5.64, or twelve cents more than that spent in 1911. The amount yielded for each child in the average membership of the schools for 1912, not including the industrial schools, was $33.06.
Teachers' Salaries. The salaries paid to teachers in Janu- ary, 1913, are as follows :-
1 man
$3,200
2 women
$850
3 men
2,000
17 women
825
9 men, 2 women.
1,900
7 women
800
1 man
1,850
5 women
775
3 men
1,800
165 women
750
8 men
1,700
25 women,
1 man.
700
1 man, 1 woman
1,600
16 women
650
3 men
1,500
14 women,
man
600
2 men, 1 woman.
1,400
1 woman
525
1 man
1,300
1 woman
500
3 women
1,200
2 women
475
3 men
1,100
1 woman
425
2 men
1,050
2 women
400
1 man, 15 women.
1,000
woman
375
3 women
950
2 women
350
18 women
900
3 women
......
275
2 women
875
Sight and Hearing. The following gives the results of the eye and ear test :- EYES.
1911.
1912.
Change.
Tested
10,794
10,933
+139
Defective
1,822
1,765
-57
Per cent. defective.
16.9
16.1
-0.8
Notices sent to parents
1,098
1,085
Professionally treated.
181
169
EARS.
1911.
1912.
Change.
Tested
11,303
11,634
+331
Defective
292
270
-22
Per cent. defective.
2.6
2.3
-0.3
Notices sent to parents.
202
182
Professionally treated.
33
26
.
TABLE 1 .- SCHOOLHOUSES.
NAME.
No. of Classrooms.
No. of Sittings.
Size of Lot, includ- ing Space Occupied by Build- ing.
Material.
How Heated.
How Ventilated ..
Valuation, including Furniture.
When Built.
Enlargements.
High
) West .
a17
*
Brick Brick
Steam Steam
Fan Fan
$141,160 114,761
1895
School East
14
·
Prescott
12
585
22,000
Brick
Steam
Fan
66,260
1867
Knapp
13
636
24,517
Brick
Steam
Gravity
50,540
1889
4 rooms added 1894
Pope
12
578
27,236
Brick
Steam
Gravity Fan
48,897
1874
Edgerly .
12
533
24,000
Brick
Steam
Gravity
46,030
1871
§ 4 rooms added 1882
Glines
14
674
28,800
Brick
Steam
Gravity Gravity
80,740
1891
5 rooms added 1896
Forster
18
823
30,632
Brick
Steam
85,290
1866
6 rooms added 1899
Bingham
16
797
35,586
Brick
Steam
Gravity
70,005
1886
§ 4 rooms added 1894 8 rooms added 1904
Carr
17
776
20,450
Brick
Steam
Gravity
54,210
1898
Morse .
12
520
29,000
Brick
Furnace
Furnace
48,199
1869
Highland
12
583
23,260
Brick
Steam
Gravity
60,560
1880
4 rooms added 1891
Hodgkins
14
557
35,034
Brick
Steam
Gravity
75,651
1896
Cutler
12
551
53,729
Brick
Steam
88,929
1912
Bennett
12
507
17,000
Brick
Steam
60,248
1902
Hanscom
12
481
12,756
Brick
Steam
Gravity Fan
73,290
1897
4 rooms added 1907
Carried forward
231
10,374
(a) There are besides, nine recitation rooms, a chemical, a physical, and a biological laboratory, four manual training rooms, a cooking room a typewriting room, three drawing rooms, two libraries, two offices, three teachers' rooms, two lecture halls, and a lunch room in the basement. *Buildings are located on Central Hill Park, which contains 13 1-10 acres.
ANNUAL
REPORTS.
198
·
.
·
.
.
$1,250,530
·
·
.
Bell
12
501
22,262
Brick
Steam
85,760
1891
8 rooms added 1906
.
1,272
1871
.
·
.
.
6 rooms added 1890
4 rooms added 1892
TABLE 1 (Concluded) .- SCHOOLHOUSES.
NAME.
No. of Classrooms.
No. of Sittings.
Size of Lot, includ- ing Space Occupied by Build- ing.
Material.
How Heated.
How Ventilated.
Valuation, including Furniture.
When Built.
Enlargements.
Brought forward .
231
10,374
Brown
10
187
20,093
Brick
Steam Steam
Gravity
64,151
1901
4 rooms added 1907
Proctor
9
343
18,000
Brick
Brick
Steam
Gravity
34,760
1886
4 rooms added 1899
Lowe .
8
337
21,650
Brick
Steam
Gravity
51,826
1903
Baxter
6
298
11,000
Brick Brick
Steam
Gravity
32 956
1901
Perry
6
321
46,080
Steam
Gravity
37,080
1899
Girls' Industrial
6b
50
8,850
Wood
Furnace
Furnace
9,338
1911
Boys' Industrial
4
50
30,155
Wood
Furnace
Furnace
22,720
1884
Cummings
4
167
11,300
Wood
Furnace
Furnace
11,920
1884
Durell.
4
198
13,883
Brick
Steam
Gravity
19,720
1894
Lincoln* .
.
.
17,662
Wood
Steam
Gravity
18,220
1885
Total
296
13,012
$1,596,041
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·
·
·
·
·
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·
·
·
(b) There are besides one girls' dining room, one teachers' dining room, one stock room, four fitting rooms, one infirmary, and a principal's office. * Temporarily out of use.
SCHOOL
DEPARTMENT.
199
·
·
8
387
16,080
Gravity
42,820
1905
Burns .
$1,250,530
200
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TABLE 2 .- COST OF MAINTAINING SCHOOLS FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1911-12.
SCHOOLS.
Instruction and Supervision.
Supplies.
Care.
High
$74,529 17
$10,396 29
$9,758 19
$94,683 65
Prescott
11,496 32
993 53
1,842 01
14,331 86
Knapp
12,216 04
1,001 64
1,760 72
14,978 40
Pope
11,544 26
836 56
2,023 18
14,404 00
Bell
9,817 85
844 08
1,467 99
12,129 92
Edgerly
10,797 64
993 38
1,638 54
13,429 56
Glines
12,618 85
735 93
2,275 38
15,630 16
Forster
14,763 00
1,180 28
3,146 34
19,089 62
Bingham
15,024 29
1,127 55
2,100 29
18,252 13
Carr
15,192 72
1,281 86
2,274 71
18,749 29
Morse
10,324 60
721 62
1,679 55
12,725 77
Brown
9,444 27
734 86
1,548 72
11,727 85
Highland
11,232 22
1,032 29
1,642 19
13,906 70
Hodgkins
14,495 06
1,216 36
1,781 60
17,493 02
Bennett
8,507 02
638 26
1,822 04
10,967 32
Hanscom
8,758 64
569 31
1,770 38
11,098 33
Proctor .
6,004 31
502 63
1,418 01
7,924 95
Burns
.
6,560 40
497 34
1,363 88
8,421 62
Lowe
6,684 77
438 85
1,394 08
8,517 70
Baxter
4,932 92
348 12
1,090 46
6,371 50
Perry
4,638 54
285 71
1,128 29
6,053 54
Cummings
3,136 70
251 97
1,136 13
4,524 80
Durell
2,983 82
219 04
902 22
4,105 08
Lincoln .
3,623 41
278 61
1,381 04
5,283 06
Evening
7,573 95
548 21
1,977 09
10,099 25
Atypical
820 66
46 52
34 13
901 31
Boys' Industrial
3,996 95
1,837 15
1,363 47
7,197 57*
Girls' Industrial
4,990 76
761 43
680 73
6,432 92*
Total
$306,709 14
$30,319 38
$52,402 36
$389,430 88
FROM SCHOOL APPROPRIATION.
SPENT BY CITY GOVERNMENT.
Total.
* This total for industrial schools is about $7,004 larger than the cost to the city for maintain - ing them, as the city will be reimbursed that amount by the state under provisions of Statute.
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