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89,825.10
Examined January 28, 1914 and found correct,
B. F. LINDSEY, FRED L. MORSE, W. L. ELLIOT, Auditors.
1
67.00
64.49
(02.05.28
Attendance Officer
Office expenses, fil-
1,868.88
75.00
3,994.89
699.71
$1,371.02
136
ANNUAL REPORT
ESTIMATED EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR 1914
General Control
1. School Committee-
Estimated 1913 $300.00
Expended 1913 $ 50.00
Estimated 1913
Increase
Agent
-$ 50.00
Clerks
700.00
868.00
$1,235.00
367.00
Office expenses
42.00
110.07
60.00
-50.07
Reports
45.00
33.00
33.00
Telephones
210.00
206.20
224.20
18.00
Census
60.00
60.00
75.00
15.00
2. Superintendence
including
Attendance Officer
Superintendent .... $2,000.00
$2,300.04 $2,300.00
-$ .04
Attendance Officer.
600.00
616.68
650.00
33.32
Office expenses,
filing case and
fuel
150.00
243.63
225.00
-18.63
Expenses
out
of
town
100.00
82.76
85.00
2.24
$3,150.00
$3,243.11
$3,260.00
$16.89
Instruction
Teachers' salaries. $57,000.00 $56,147.09 $60,895.00
$4,747.91
Text-books, supplies
and care of or- gans
3,800.00
3,599.19
3,600.00
Manual training
385.68
200.00
-200.94
Sewing
16.07
$60,800.00 $60,148.03 $64,695.00
$4,546.97
Operating School Plant
Janitors
$8,033.33
$8,065.32
$9,472.00
$1,406.68
Fuel
5,639.26
5,724.90
6,305.40
580.50
Water
1,000.00
674.39
825.00
150.61
Janitors' supplies
400.00
427.62
425.00
-2.62
Power
100.00
100.00
Lights
163.67
130.04
200.00
69.96
Towels
150.00
147.48
155.00
7.52
$15,386.26 $15,169.75 $17,482.40
$2,312.65
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Maintaining School Plant
Repairs
$3,500.00
$3,375.93
$3,400.00
$24.07
Furniture
250.00
331.00
250.00
-81.00
. Flags
25.00
28.75
25.00
-3.75
Care of grounds.
200.00
259.21
200.00
-59.21
$3,975.00
$3,994.89
$3,875.00
-$119.89
Auxiliary Agencies
Health
$ 354.50
$ 366.65
$ 400.00
$ 33.35
Transportation
2,850.00
2,891.99
3,100.00
208.01
$3,204.50
$3,258.64
$3,500.00
$241.36
Miscellaneous
Walpole
Training
School
$ 50.00
$ 25.72
$ 50.00
$24.28
Benevolence
250.00
273.54
275.00
1.46
Graduations
200.00
239.34
125.00
-114.34
Sundries
75.00
104.61
100.00
-4.61
Express
10.00
37.95
25.00
-12.95
$585.00
$681.16
$575.00
-$106.16
Evening Schools
$1,300.00
$1,579.25
$1,600.00
$20.75
Vacation Schools
350.00
423.00
400.00
-23.00
Totals
$90,107.76 $89,825.10 $97,014.60
$7,189.50
SUMMARY OF ESTIMATED EXPENSES FOR 1914
General Control
Estimated 1913
Expended 1913 $1,327.27
Estimated 1913 $1,627.20
1. School Committee $1,357.00
2. Superintendence
3,150.00
3,243.11
3,260.00
Increase $299.93 16.89
Instruction
60,800.00
60,148.03
64,695.00
4,546.97
Operating School Plant Maintaining School
15,386.26
15,169.75
17,482.40
2,312.65
Plant
3,975.00
3,994.89
3,875.00
119.89
Auxiliary Agencies
3,204.50
3,258.64
3,500.00
241.36
Miscellaneous
585.00
681.16
575.00
-106.16
Evening Schools
1,300.00
1,579.25
1,600.00
20.75
Vacation Schools
350.00
423.00
400.00
-23.00
Totals
. $90,107.76 $89,825.10 $97,014.60
$7,189.50
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Estimated receipts
Dog Fund .. $1,700.00
Tuition 575.00
.
To be appropriated
$94,739.60
EXPENDITURES ITEMIZED GENERAL CONTROL
Walter J. Newman, agent two
months
$ 50.00
Alice I. Wetherell, Clerk $720.00
Myrtle Goodwin, Clerk 128.00
Helen F. Sweet, assisting in office. 20.00 868.00
Providence
Telephone Co., tele-
phones 249.95
William A. Small, census enumera- tor
60.00
Sun Publishing Co., school reports Office expenses :
33.00
Edward E. Babb & Co., envelopes ..
3.75
Lewis A. Fales, postage on reports. 4.00
Walter J. Newman, telephoning, fares, etc 2.49
Sun Publishing Co., postals, bill heads, etc .. 42.00
Underwood Typewriter Co., type- writer and table 55.00
Wright & Potter Printing Co., uni- form school account blanks. 2.83
110.07
$1,371.02
SUPERINTENDENCE, INCLUDING ATTENDANCE OFFICER
Lewis A. Fales, superintendent ... $2,300.04
Warren Parker, attendance officer. 616.68
$2,275.00
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ANNUAL REPORT
Lewis A. Fales, expenses out of town 82.76
Office expenses :
Attleboro Coal Co., coal. 26.40
Attleboro Gas Light Co., gas. 3.90
Edward E. Babb & Co., paper, ink, tags, etc. 39.95
H. C. Barden, oscillating fan. ..
16.75
A. R. Block, carbon and wrapping paper 2.35
C. S. Bush & Co., cotton twine. ...
.70
Thomas K. Corbiere, carbon paper. 3.75
H. C. Dimond & Co., stamps. . Lewis A. Fales, P. O. rental, post- age, telegrams, etc. 34.25
1.30
Library Bureau, transfer and ad- mission cards 18.27
Macey-Stetson-Morris Co., filing cases, etc. 48.64
George R. Paine, sign for outside door
6.00
Remington Typewriter Co., repairs
1.85
William A. Small, repairing clock.
1.00
Sun Publishing Co., enrollment
slips, order blanks, letter heads, etc.
34.75
G. A. Sweeney, book case section .. 3.00
S. Ward Co., paper .77
243.63
$3,243.11
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EXPENSES OF INSTRUCTION (Not including Evening and Vacation Schools)
Teachers' pay roll, High School
teachers
$10,818.00
Teachers' pay roll, Elementary school teachers 43,460.21
Teachers pay roll, supervisors. ...
1,868.88
Manual Training:
Attleboro Steam & Electric Co.,
motor $20.00
Attleboro Steam & Electric Co.,
electricity 38.30
Brownell Hardware Co., tools, etc ..
185.00
Carpenter Coal & Lumber Co., lum- ber
93.51
Chandler & Farquhar Co., supplies.
7.73
Lewis A. Fales, express
.40
Grant Brothers, lumber
15.60
A. R. Macomber Co., labor and fuses
7.57
D. E. Makepeace Co., brass
1.69
Nahum Perry & Co., supplies. . .
20.06
Reed-Prentice Co., binder screw.
.53
J. L. Tobitt & Co., shellac, etc. 8.13
$398.52
Sewing:
Aldrich-Chipman Co.
$9.63
Callender, McAuslan & Troup Co ...
3.15
San Souci Dept. Store Co.
6.44
$19.22
A. I. Atwell, care of organs
52.00
Books:
High
Elem.
John Q. Adams & Co., dictionary. .
$13.00
Allyn & Bacon
$47.12
American Book Co.
67.68
F. J. Barnard & Co., books
13.77
52.97
Edward E. Babb & Co.
322.91
729.72
C. C. Birchard & Co., Laurel Song Books 68.00
rebinding
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ANNUAL REPORT
J. D. Brown, Standard Reference
Works
20.00
Lewis A. Fales, express
2.86
4.37
Ginn & Co.
73.10
247.27
House of Childhood.
1.10
Rand, McNally & Co.
.71
Benjamin H. Sanborn & Co
33.34
27.85
Charles Scribners' Sons
1.32
$630.81
$1,096.28 $1,727.09
Supplies:
American Book Co., bookkeeping
blanks
$32.40
Edward E. Babb & Co., supplies ...
207.74
$1,082.49
C. C. Birchard & Co., music ..
16.25
2.30
Brownell Hardware Co., glue and sandpaper
.40
Charles S. Bush Co., laboratory supplies
2.15
1.40
George L. Claflin Co., laboratory supplies
78.83
1.10
2.00
1.88
.62
Lewis A. Fales, express, etc.
11.03
13.11
C. P. Gray, relief model of canal ..
13.05
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., labora- tory supplies
69.12
Library Bureau, cards
7.75
Macey-Stetson-Morris Co., cards ..
10.08
R. B. Magaveny, freight and cart- age
10.72
50.78
D. C. McIntosh, calculation pads .. National Book Cover Co., book covers
6.60
A. N. Palmer Co., Prim. writing les- sons, etc.
36.40
E. E. Perrin, cartage
1.00
25.75
Rand, McNally & Co., map of South America
16.80
Remington Typewriter Co., shields, etc.
8.10
Spaulding Print Paper Co., T
10.28
Sun Publishing Co., printed matter
19.76
16.20
A. H. Sweet & Son, boxes.
21.00
A. T. Thompson & Co., post cards.
5.14
J. L. Tobitt & Co., paste, etc.
4.41
Underwood Typewriter Co., rib- bons, etc.
22.50
H. N. Collins, laboratory supplies C. H. Congdon, gummed word labels Thomas K. Corbiere, carbon paper. Oliver Ditson Co., music.
1.67
4.57
2.00
W. A. Hall, leather
19.52
squares, etc.
142
ANNUAL REPORT
E. A. Wales, stamps
3.60
Samuel Ward Co., paper, etc.
39.60
4.36
C. A. Watrous, book covers
4.38
$588.13
$1,300.71
$1,888.84
$60,232.76
OPERATING SCHOOL PLANT (Not including Evening Schools)
High
Elem.
Janitors' pay roll
$849.96 $7,216.36
$8,065.32
Fuel :
Attleboro Coal Co., coal
$473.22
$5,072.93
Emma F. Clements, wood
7.00
Horace Knight, wood
8.00
Joseph McNally, wood
9.00
W. E. Middleton, wood
6.00
Smith Coal Co., wood
24.50
H. A. Smith, wood
15.00
109.25
$488.22
$5,236.68
$5,724.90
Janitors' Supplies, Etc .:
Angell Co., pencil pointer
$4.41
Edward E. Babb & Co., mats, dust- ers, etc.
5.23
55.77
A. R. Block, toilet paper
6.00
Blodgett Clock Co., zincs
5.25
Brownell Hardware Co., floor oil, toilet paper, etc. .
12.00
72.39
A. & E. Burton Co., floor brushes .. Charles S. Bush Co., supplies.
1.20
3.21
L. Z. Carpenter Co., soap, Gold Dust, etc.
1.00
16.21
C. F. Clarke, oil, etc.
.32
H. I. Dallman Co., brushes
13.68
Thomas F. Dean, Bon Ami, etc ....
.30
Dickinson Teaming Co., cleaning cesspool, etc.
8.00
Lewis A. Fales, supplies.
19.75
Formacone Co., liquid soap, etc ... ers
7.50
Howard Dustless Duster Co., dust-
Frank J. Jameson, brooms, etc ....
30.10
Paul LaCross, suprema
2.20
A. R. Macomber, glass jar.
.15
N. Perry & Co., janitors' supplies. .
11.76
53.08
Phinotas Chemical Co., sweeping fibre
5.88
5.41
52.09
.32
143
ANNUAL REPORT
San Souci Dept. Store Co., cheese cloth, etc.
1.11
Frank Shaw, janitors' supplies
1.98
Somerville Brush Co., brushes.
1.96
12.64
A. H. Sweet & Son, sawdust
1.47
J. L. Tobitt & Co., brush
.25
Wm. K. Toole Hardware Co., rake, etc.
.80
Benjamin Treen Co., baskets
2.50
5.00
J. A. Welsh, pencil pointer
5.00
$47.17
$380.45
$427.62
Attleboro Gas Light Co.
$28.66
$27.26
Attleboro Steam & Electric Co ....
74.12
$130.04
Towels:
Lewis A. Fales, towels for Briggs
Corner
$ 1.80
New England Towel Supply Co. . . $17.71
127.97
$17.71
$129.77
$147.48
H. F. Conant, Water Registrar.
$94.80
$579.59
$674.39
$15,169.75
MAINTAINING SCHOOL PLANT
Repairs, Etc .:
Attleboro Gas Light Co., lamps ....
$21.20
$66.55
H. C. Barden, installing lights, etc Claude L. Bowen, Sanf. wall, sewer connections, etc.
326.28
33.23
Brownell Hardware Co., repairs ... J. W. Bullock & Co., Sanf. St. gut- ters, H. S. furnace repairs.
106.34
264.86
Charles S. Bush Co., sal ammoniac. Fred A. Clark, repairs.
119.22
Simeon Collins, carting stone.
1.00
Continental Grate Co., Sanf. St. grate
58.94
Malcolm Currie, Sanf. St. fence, etc Charles F. Damon, taking up seats.
1.60
Frank H. Davis, repairs at Capron. Thomas F. Dean, glass.
38.26
.60
27.00
Everett O. Dexter, cementing, etc .. Dickinson Teaming Co., carting ashes, etc. .
8.85
J. F. Dingman, painting Washing- ton School, etc ..
103.00
Lewis A. Fales, repairs on lawn mower, etc.
2.30
William F. Flynn & Co., furnace re- pairs
85.95
E. M. Fuller, repairs
8.50
Grant Brothers, labor and screen wire
.88
J. L. Hammett Co., liquid slating. .
9.00
2.84
85.86
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ANNUAL REPORT
144
Hebronville Mfg. Co., spraying ....
1.50
George H. Herrick Co., repairs on clocks
10.00
Clarence Higgins, shingling Ca- pron school
297.58
The Samuel Jackson Co., repairs ..
5.23
R. H. Jones, repairing concrete. . ..
19.27
H. W. Keach, blackboard.
5.40
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., bubblers
91.87
J. Walter Lewis, labor
2.00
A. R. Macomber Co., labor and ma- terial
21.90
49.22
Mackinnon & Nicholson, repairs ..
60.81
Fred W. Noyes & Son, repairs.
17.34
1.78
Olaf Pearson, cement floor, concret- ing, etc.
7.60
241.11
Nahum Perry & Co., furnace re- pairs, bubblers, etc.
139.71
Pope & Read, Dodgeville heater, etc.
2.89
383.70
Bert Riley, fire extinguishers
27.00
John N. Schneider, repairs.
.85
William A. Small, repairs
1.75
George H. Snell, repairs
5.85
P. J. Taeger, repairs .
69.23
J. Gilbert Thompson, shingling Car- penter St. School, etc.
13.30
399.55
J. L. Tobitt & Co., repairs.
4.69
84.01
E. A. Wales, repairs ..
2.00
H. E. White & Co., repairs.
4.20
Daniel Young & Co., repairs
32.33
$195.26
$3,180.67
$3,375.93
Edward E. Babb & Co., flags
$28.75
$28.75
Furniture:
American Seating Co., seats for
Richardson and Tiffany, etc ...
$325.00
Lewis A. Fales, express. .
.25
G. A. Sweeney, costumers, etc.
5.75
Hedges:
John E. Anderson, planting shrubs.
$20.50
Brownell Hardware Co., seed ... 1.71
Dickinson Teaming Co., dressing ..
3.00
Charles R. Fish & Co., Hebron. shrubs
82.50
C. H. Greaton, shrubs for Tiffany School
51.00
N. Perry & Co., seed.
.50
Frank E. Shaw, preparing grounds, etc.
100.00
$331.00
$259.21
$3,994.89
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AUXILIARY AGENCIES
Health:
George E. McPherson, M. D., School Physician
$250.00
Wilfred E. Rounseville, M. D., School Physician
116.65
$366.65
$366.65
Transportation :
Horatio Briggs, barge
$396.00
Seneca Cole, barge
403.00
Charles Fine, barge
33.00
Frederick Gauthier, barge.
63.00
Interstate Con. St. Ry. Co., tickets W. E. Middleton, barge.
512.50
Edgar E. Mott, barge
288.00
tickets
575.00
E. E. Perrin, barge
270.00
Taunton & Pawtucket St. Ry. Co., tickets
700.00
$3,339.50
$3,706.15
MISCELLANEOUS (Not including Evening Schools)
Bristol County, training school.
$25.72
Aldrich-Chipman Co., shoes.
273.54
Graduations:
High
Elem.
Aldrich-Chipman Co., ribbon
$4.12
Grace Appleby, pianist
6.00
Bates Block Associates, rental of opera house $100.00
2.50
E. L. Freeman Co., diplomas.
18.00
John L. Gibb, rental of orchestral music
2.85
W. H. Kinyon, engrossing diplomas
8.60
24.60
N. C. Mathews, rental of chairs .... San Souci Dept. Store Co., ribbon ..
1.50
2.67
C. F. Stone, rental of chairs.
6.00
10.00
29.00
Sun Publishing Co., programs, etc .. Daniel Young & Co., labor and lum- ber
23.50
$152.45
$86.89
$239.34
99.00
Norton & Taunton St. Ry. Co.,
Flower Shop, palms
140
ANNUAL REPORT
Sundries:
Aldrich-Chipman Co., curtains .. . . Edward E. Babb & Co., tongue de- pressors
2.60
C. S. Bush Co., paper, etc. 3.80
H. R. Eaton, expenses and postage Lewis A. Fales, sundries.
$19.23
.18
funeral
9.00
E. E. King, flowers for funeral. Merritt & Co., locker
9.00
A. N. Palmer Co., postage ..
.50
San Souci Dept. Store Co., fram- ing certificates
2.56
Herbert A. Sullivan, inspection of boilers
6.00
Sun Publishing Co., advertising for bids, etc.
7.50
48.58
$26.73
$88.38
$115.11
Express:
Lewis A. Fales, express
$9.20
R. B. Magaveny, cartage
.50
E. C. Newman & Co., cartage.
28.75
$38.45
$692.16
EVENING SCHOOLS
Teachers' pay roll
$1,301.00
Janitors' pay roll
75.00
Attleboro Gas Light Co.
$67.00
Attleboro Steam & Electric Co. 64.49
$131.49
Books:
American Book Co .. $1.20
Edward E. Babb & Co
32.21
D. C. Heath & Co.
4.17
Supplies:
American Book Co., bookkeeping
blanks
$34.03
Edward E. Babb & Co., supplies .. 20.78
Lewis A. Fales, express. 1.35
Frost & Adams Co., drawing instru-
$37.58
$60.60
$60.60
$1.16
The Flower Shop, flowers for
5.00
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Sundries:
Lewis A. Fales, distributing posters $ .80
Sun Publishing Co., posters, etc ... 6.75
$7.55
$1,613.22
VACATION SCHOOL
Teachers' pay roll
$300.00
Sundries:
Aldrich-Chipman Co., sewing ma-
terial
$17.50
Attleboro Furniture Co., croquet
sets
4.00
Brownell Hardware Co., knives .... 1.47
Callender, McAuslan & Troup Co., brass
2.75
Fred A. Clark, shellac, etc.
1.50
Lewis A. Fales, supplies
21.77
J. L. Hammett Co., supplies.
72.08
Milton, Bradley Co., supplies
1.93
$123.00
$423.00
Total gross expenditures. $90,446.06
Note :- Deducting the amount received for reimbursements, $620.96, would make the total net expenditures for schools, $89,825.10.
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Attleborough :
The School Committee herewith submits for your consideration the reports of the Educational Department for the year 1913.
Your attention is called to the financial statement, which is given this year in more detail than has been the custom heretofore, it having come to the attention of the committee that complaints have been made in regard to the manner in which the board was submitting its re- port. While we believe that this detailed statement incurs a needless expense,we are willing to give at all times any and all information to the voters of the town upon the manner in which the public money has been expended in our department.
You are urged to consider carefully the report of the Superintendent and the various reports submitted in this department that you may more fully understand the work of the committee and what we are trying to accom -- plish. The year has not been characterized by any radi- cal changes in the educational system of the department. The increases in teachers' salaries enable us to retain more of our best teachers and thus avoid hiring quite as many new ones each year, and we believe that we can obtain better results.
On account of the rapidly increasing school popu- lation in the vicinity of Thacher Street we shall be obliged this year to open the last room available in the new Tiffany School and possibly to maintain an evening school in that locality the coming winter. The opening of the new High School will leave the old building avail- able for grade purposes and we shall be able to house properly all of the pupils, although some may have to go a longer distance than heretofore.
A number of rather expensive repairs have been made during the year. Some of the larger items are :
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Sanford St. School, retaining wall, $120; fence, $85; sewer connection and dry wells, $150, (half of this for locating pipes) ; repairing gutters on grammar building, $141 ; new grates for boiler, police valve and other re- pairs, $150; cement floor in cellar of superintendent's office, $81; High School furnace repairs, $75; Farmers School furnace repairs, $85. Carpenter St. and Capron Schools shingled, $600; Dodgeville new furnace, $306; Washington School, painting, $94; installing 12 drinking fountains, $125. These twelve items total over $2000, the rest of the amount for repairs being expended in smaller sums on the different buildings. This year the old High School building and the Richardson building should be connected with the sewer, the Dodgeville building should be shingled, a few more drinking foun- tains installed, and a retaining wall built at Farmers if satisfactory arrangements can be made with the abuttor. The smaller building on Pine St. needs better ventilating arrangements, and the sanitaries at Sanford St. should be completely altered and improved.
The financial report shows the way the money en- trusted to our care has been expended and we recom- mend that the sum of $94,500.00 with the receipts and the Dog Fund, be appropriated for this department the en- suing year.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER J. NEWMAN, Chairman : ALDRO A. FRENCH, Secretary ; BENJAMIN P. KING, EMILY L. RICHARDSON,
FLORENCE B. THEOBALD, THOMAS G. SADLER, HAROLD E. SWEET, REGINALD P. DAKIN, SUSIE M. PEARSE,
School Committee.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT
To the School Committee of the Town of Attleborough :
I have the honor to submit herewith my ninth an- nual report as Superintendent of Schools, it being the thirtieth in the series of superintendents' reports. The school attendance figures are for the school year from September 1912 to June 1913 ; the other statistics are for the calendar year 1913.
STATISTICS
Population of Attleboro, census 1910. . 16.215
II .- School Census
Number of boys between five and fifteen 1.571
Number of girls between five and fifteen 1.467
--
Total 3.038
Number of boys between seven and fourteen. 1,224
Number of girls between seven and fourteen 1,175
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Total 2.399
III .- Attendance
Attendance statistics for the school year from Sep- tember 9. 1912. to June 27, 1913 :
Number of different pupils enrolled. boys .. I334
Number of different pupils enrolled. girls. . 1284
Total enrollment 2.618
Average membership 2.407
Average attendance 2,295
Per cent. of attendance .95
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Table showing average membership and per cent. of attendance since 1902-1903 :
Average membership
Gain over Per cent. of previous year attendance
1902-1903
2000
52
91
1903-1904
2045
45
92
1904-1905
2070
25
93
1905-1906
2086
16
92
1906-1907
2109
23
93
1907-1908
2207
98
93
1908-1909
235I
I44
94
1909-1910
2213
-138
93
1910-19II
2317
104
93
1911-1912
2302
-15
95
1912-1913
2407
105
95
Fall Term, 1913
September
2596
97
October
2613
97
November
2625
96
December
2613
95
Average for fall term .. 2612
96
New pupils entering grade I in September :
1909
1910 19II 1912
1913
243 265
I56
282
3II
The above figures show that for the school year be- ginning September 1912 we gained in membership 105 pupils or 21/2 rooms over the previous year. For the year beginning September 1913 the average membership for the fall term was 2612, a gain of 160 pupils or four rooms over the fall term of 1912. Thus in two years our school population has increased nearly seven rooms. The greater part of this increase is in the schools in the center of the town, the outlying schools being little affected, some of them even showing a slight loss as shown by the following table.
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School
Average membership Sept. 1912
Average membership Sept. 1913
Gain
Loss
Briggs Corner
88
82
6
Dodgeville
71
65
6
Hebronville
129
II5
14
South Attleboro
III
108
13
Washington
I43
145
2
Plat
16
22
6
Farmers
115
II2
3
Carpenter St.
67
78
II
Pleasant St.
S-
75
I2
Bliss
323
352
29
Richardson
377
427
50
High
295
313
18
-
Total
1822
1894
II6
44
Net gain for above schools.
72
In order to make comparisons for the following schools I have taken the average membership for Feb- ruary 1913. the second month after the Tiffany school was opened :
School
Average membership Feb. 1913
Average membership Sept. 1913
Gain
Loss
Sanford St
412
453
41
Capron
33
58
25
Tiffany
160
19I
31
605
702
97
Total net gain for all schools over
last year
165
The loss at the Pleasant St. School and part of the gain at the Sanford St. School are due to the fact that it was necessary to transfer the fourth grade from Pleasant St. to Sanford St. in order to relieve crowded conditions. and these figures were taken after the transfer was made. The last eight schools mentioned above. being those nearest the center of the town, excepting Farmers, show
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a gain of 193 pupils over last year. At the Tiffany School another room was opened. In the remaining schools, grades were combined, and many rooms filled to their seating capacity. The following figures show the condition of the schools in September this year :
SCHOOL
Room
Grade
Enrollment
Sanford St.
I.
VIII
55
Sanford St.
7.
V
48
Sanford St.
6.
V
27
Sanford St.
IV
17
-
44
Richardson
5.
V
48
Richardson
6.
V
47
Richardson
8.
IV
48
Richardson
7.
IV
29
Richardson
III
16
-
45
Richardson
9.
III
14
Richardson
II
29
-
Richardson
IO.
I
49
Bliss
VI
49
Bliss
4.
V
48
Bliss
5.
IV
48
Bliss
7.
II
42
Bliss
8.
I
45
Carpenter St.
I.
II
15
Carpenter St.
I
28
43
Pleasant St.
I.
III
24
Pleasant St.
II
2I
43
-
45
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As a consequence of these conditions many pupils were transferred from the schools where they properly belonged to other schools where the conditions were less crowded. Such transfers are always difficult to make, as parents living near one school justly object to having their children transferred to a school farther away. After having the situation explained to them, however, I have always found parents very considerate, and I wish to thank them for the spirit of cooperation they have shown even when the arrangements made were not fully satis- factory to them.
What is the best plan for relieving this crowded condition which will surely be worse next year? Had the new high school building been completed earlier so that the old high school building had been available this year, adjustments could easily have been made. It is so late in the year now, however, that it seems unwise to disturb a number of rooms at this time in order to re- lieve them. Results will probably be better if the schools continue as at present till the close of the year. In Sep- tember another room should be opened at the Tiffany School. The only other available rooms we shall have besides the South Main St. School are in the old high school building. How shall this building be used ?
In October, I presented to the Committee three plans for utilizing the old high school building.
I. Organize a new graded school to care for the pupils from the Pleasant St. section.
2. Transfer grades seven and eight from Sanford St. to this building, and relieve other schools by trans- ferring pupils to Sanford St.
3. Transfer the eighth grades from all three center schools to the old building, equip a room for manual training and sewing, and later for cooking, allowing those who desire to take a larger amount of commercial and manual work, and have a special room for those minors under sixteen who have been at work but who
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by the present law must attend school when out of em- ployment.
The objections to the first plan are that the building is not adapted to primary classes, making expensive alterations necessary ; there is not sufficient playground for primary pupils ; and the whole building would have to be equipped with new furniture. It would probably be more expensive, also, to maintain two similar schools so near together, as this and the Sanford St. School would be, than it would be to place all the pupils of the same grade in one building.
The second plan involves transferring many pupils out of their own district to another. This always raises serious objections on the part of parents and is to be avoided whenever possible. On younger children it in- volves more or less hardship.
The third plan which was adopted by the Committee as the only satisfactory way of relieving the center schools next year, has more advantages and fewer ob- jections than either of the others. It will bring together all the eighth grade pupils and give opportunity for some departmental teaching, if desired, thus making the prepa- ration of the pupils for high school work more uniform. Having a room equipped for manual training in the same building will save the time now spent in traveling to and from the school on South Main St., and will probably have a beneficial reaction on the discipline and work of the school. The girls can have the advantage of a sewing room equipped for that purpose and can be taught the use of sewing machines. If at some future time it is desired to give the girls the benefit of a course in domestic science, the old chemical laboratory can be utilized for that purpose. By having all the eighth grade pupils together, more can be done to develop individual tendencies than we are now doing.
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