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Again in the last of August another festival was held, but this time the program consisted of aquatic designs and tricks. Two teams, one of boys and the other of girls practiced for three weeks. Miss Virginia Hearn was chosen as Queen and she had as her attendants Miss Jeanine Dubuc, and Miss Shirley Johnson.
The swimming pool was by far the most popular feature of the playground. The following was the approximate daily attendance.
Morning-Boys-9:30 beginners 40
Morning-Girls-10:30 beginners 35
Afternoon-Boys-2:00 120
Afternoon-Girls-3:00 110
Afternoon-Boys and Girls-4:00 35
Totał
440 daily
Every Friday the Board obtained some surplus produce from the W. P. A. office. This was then donated to the children. Grapefruit, apples, peaches, and raisins were given out.
The Playground was not without supervision from 8:00 in the morning unti 8:00 at night. It was open 7 days a week and was, therefore, always available to the children.
In an institution such as the Briggs Playground the City has a means by which it may help its citizens bring up their children to be physically able and physically strong. It is certain that the playground has proved its worth. Here the children are carefully supervised in all their actions. They learn to take their place in society as cooperative beings by their associations with others in this give and take institution. It is therefore, the most beneficial enterprise which the city offers to its citizens and their children.
Margaret Manchester.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
CITY OF ATTLEBORO
FOR THE YEAR 1941
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ANNUAL REPORT
SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 1941
Mrs. Lida M. Holbrook, 45 Holden Street.
Term Expires January 1943
Mrs. Alice Stobbs, 63 Bank Street 1943
Mrs. Rena Rounseville, 141 South Main Street. 1943
William A. Blackburn, 197 South Main Street. 1943
Allen K. Remington, 138 Highland Avenue. 1943
H. Dean Baker, 16 Upland Road. 1945
Mrs. Dorothy R. Worman, 23 Third Street
1945
Victor G. Vaughan, 173 County Street
1945
Roger K. Richardson, 303 Bank Street.
1945
Organization
H. Dean Baker Chairman
Mrs. Lida M. Holbrook Secretary
H. Dean Baker Representative before Municipal Council
STANDING COMMITTEES
Mr. Baker
Teachers and Course of Study Mrs. Holbrook Mrs. Stobbs
Mrs. Worman
Textbooks and Supplies Mr. Blackburn Mr. Richardson
Buildings
Mrs. Rounseville
Mr. Richardson Mr. Vaughan
Finance
Mr. Baker
Mrs. Holbrook
Mr. Remington
Regular meetings, first and third Mondays of each month at 7:30 p. m.
Bills are paid on the fifteenth of each month.
All bills to be acted on must be submitted in duplicate and be in the hands of the Clerk of the Committee, Superintendent's Office, on the 26th of each month.
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Superintendent of Schools LEWIS A. FALES
Office: Sanford Street Telephone 12 Residence: 22 Mechanic Street. Telephone 22
The Superintendent's office is open on school days from 8:30 to 5:00; Satur- day, 8:30 to 11:30. The Superintendent's office hours on school days are from 8:30 to 9:00, 4:00 to 5:00 Monday and Wednesday, Monday evening by appoint- ment.
Superintendent's Secretary
Alice I. Wetherell, Telephone 169 32 Sanford Street
Clerks
Hilda R. LaPalme. 61 Hebron Avenue
Edna I. Langley (Mrs.) 53 1-2 Holman Street
School Physician
Dr. Jesse W. Battershall, Telephone 284 18 North Main Street
School Nurse
Mrs. Dorothy B. Wendell, R. N., Telephone 940-W 90 Locust Street Office hours: Willett School 8:00 to 9:00 on school days
Dental Hygienist
Barbara H. Greene. 13 Dean Street
School Dentists
Dr. Anderson S. Briggs Suite 26, Bates Block
Dr. W. Earle Turner . . 59 1-2 Park Street
Attendance Officer and Custodian of School Buildings
W. Wesley Young. Telephones: Office 12 Home 640-M
27 Jewel Avenue
School Calendar
First Term-Monday, Sept. 8 to Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1941.
Second Term-Monday, Jan. 5 to Friday, Feb. 20, 1942.
Third Term-Monday, March 2 to Friday, April 17, 1942.
Fourth Term-Monday, April 27 to Wednesday, June 24, 1942.
School Sessions
High School-One Session, from 8:15 to 1:40, with a recess of fifteen minutes. Briggs Corner-8:45 to 11:45 and 12:30 to 2:30.
Lincoln School-8:45 to 11:45 and 1:00 to 3:00.
Plat-9:00 to 12:00 and 1:00 to 3:00.
Washington-9:00 to 11:45 and 1:00 to 3:15.
Grammar and Primary Schools-Morning sessions from 9:00 to 11:45. Afternoon Sessions from 1:15 to 3:30. Grade I closes fifteen minutes earlier than the other grades.
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NO SCHOOL SIGNALS Adopted March 5, 1928
Four double strokes of the Fire Alarm 2-2-2-2
7:15 A. M. Postponement of the opening of the High School till 9:00 o'clock.
8:00 A. M. No morning session except for the High School. If signal has sounded at 7:15, no session for the High School.
8:15 A. M. No morning session for grades one, two and three. Afternoon
session for all grades unless the signal is repeated at 12:15 or 12:30.
11:15 A. M. One session. Grades one, two and three will close for the day at 12 M. All higher grades then in session except the High School will close for the day at 1:00 P. M.
12:15 P. M. No afternoon session for all grades below the High School.
12:30 P. M. No afternoon session for grades one, two and three.
The signals will be given at 8:00 A. M. and 12:15 only in very severe weather. WEAN will broadcast no school announcements in the morning between 7:00 and 7:15 and 7:45 and 8:00; and again at 12:00 noon if necessary.
WNAC will also broadcast the no school announcements in the morning.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT, 1941
Receipts Appropriations
April, Salaries. $259,935.67
April, Other Expenses. 50,065.00
October 11, Other Expenses 4,500.00
$314,500.67
Smith-Hughes Fund for Vocational aud Continuation Schools.
601.34
Total available for schools $315,102.01
Total expended-gross cost of schools $311,275.54
RECEIVED by the City on account of schools but not credited to the School Department:
1. State Reimbursements
General School Fund, Teachers' Salaries $26,596.40
Vocational and Continuation Schools.
4,309.62
Americanization Class Trade School tuition .
130.70
2. Tuition from Mass. Training School .
13.65
4. Tuition
438.75
5. Use of school buildings
65.00
6. Sale of books and supplies .
283.41
7. Sale of supplies, Vocational School. 31.00
8. Miscellaneous 15.69
Total
$ 33,091.46
Net cost of schools
$278,184.08
102.50
3. Tuition and Transportation of State Wards.
1,104.74
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EXPENDITURES, 1941
Including delayed bill amounting to $55.66 paid Feb. 15, 1942, out of ap- propriation for 1941.
General Account
High School
Elem. Schools
Total
1. General Control
Clerks. .
$4,173.32
$1,043.33
$5,216.65
Telephones
101.82
70.22
387.93
559.97
Office Expenses.
358.68
358.68
Superintendence
Superintendent .
4,200.00
4,200.00
Attendance Officer and
Custodian of Bldgs.
1,550.00
1,550.00
Office Expenses .
163.99
163.99
Expenses out of Town
35.69
35.69
Automobiles
472.88
472.88
2. Instruction
Teachers
64,197.52
142,921.97
207,119.49
Supervisors
1,826.00
6,164.00
7,990.00
Books .
946.32
3,207.89
4,154.21
Supplies
2,936.36
3,515.81
6,452.17
Cooking
169.21
389.48
558.69
Manual Training.
551.59
809.25
1,360.84
Sewing
4.60
11.53
16.13
3. Operating School Plant
Janitors.
90.00
4,306.19
15,747.61
20,143.80
Fuel.
144.08
3,176.57
9,380.39
12,701.04
Water
160.92
558.17
719.09
Janitors' Supplies
84.60
473.27
557.87
Lights-electricity
31.38
1,378.25
1,306.67
2,716.30
Power
352.15
376.87
729.02
Towels.
130.44
208.62
339.06
4. Maintaining School Plant
Repairs.
757.56
6,261.19
7,018.75
Equipment, repairs and re- placement.
76.80
1,556.80
1,633.60
Flags.
7.61
107.48
115.09
Care of Grounds.
5.94
48.62
54.56
5. Auxiliary Agencies
Health-Salaries.
75.00
2,675.00
2,750.00
Auto
68.04
68.04
Transportation
2,606.37
7,506.37
10,112.74
6. Miscellaneous
236.23
31.72
267.95
Sundries
12.00
94.64
106.64
Express
1.00
48.54
49.54
Band
81.75
81.75
$11,321.84
85,194.53
203,857.86
300,374.23
Graduation
ANNUAL REPORT
7. Vocational and Continuation School
Salaries
$ 7,245.49
Salaries from Smith-Hughes Fund.
601.34
Telephones.
17.54
Books and supplies.
97.73
Cooking, sewing and manual training.
268.04
Fuel
418.80
Gas
42.95
Electric lights.
96.06
Maintenance and replacement of equipment.
42.91
Transportation
521.63
Sundries
3.60
$ 9,356.09 $ 9,356.09
8. Evening School Salaries
301.00
9. Parochial School Transportation 1,144.41
10. Tuition to Trade Schools 99.81
Total expended.
$311,275.54
Balance.
3,826.47
$315,102.01
Summary of Expenditures
General Control
School Committee
6,135.30
Superintendence .
6,422.56 227,651.53
Instruction.
Operating School Plant.
37,906.18
Maintenance.
8,822.00
Auxiliary Agencies
12,930.78
Miscellaneous
505.88
$300,374.23
General Vocational and Continuation School
9,356.09
Evening School Salaries
301.00
Parochial School Transportation.
1,144.41
Tuition to Trade Schools .
99.81
Total.
$311,275.54
Balance
3,826.47
$315,102.01
Summary of Accounts
Salaries.
Receipts $259,935.67
Expenditures $256,516.43
$
Balance 3,419.24
Other Expenses.
54,565.00
54,157.77
407.23
Smith-Hughes Fund.
601.34
601.34
$315,102.01
$311,275.54
$ 3,826.47
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Jewelry Trades School
Appropriation. $ 13,529.75
Total expended-gross cost of school. 13,427.37
Received by the City on account of school but not credited to the School Department:
1. State reimbursement for maintenance. 2,709.21
2. Tuition for non-resident pupils for 1940 246.84
3. Tuition for non-resident pupils for 1941 1,001.64
4. Sale of supplies.
281.49
$ 4,239.18
Tuition for non-resident pupils, received after Jan. 1, 1942. $ 89.76
Expenditures
Telephone .
$ 53.21
Gas. .
54.57
Electric Lights .
66.08
Power
234.86
Books.
6.95
Supplies
1,002.36
Maintenance and replacement.
1,115.60
Janitors' Supplies.
19.81
Miscellaneous
159.03
Transportation
9.87
2,722.34
2,722.34
New Equipment.
900.86
Alterations to building
651.15
Rent
1,586.64
Teachers' salaries.
7,566.38
Total expended
$ 13,427.37
Balance .
102.38
$ 13,529.75
Federal Funds
Received from State Department, George-Deen Fund . $ 3,968.39
Received from State Department, Smith-Hughes Fund. 253.35
$ 4,221.74
Expended for salaries of teachers in the Attleboro Jewelry Trades School. $ 3,873.28
Balance, George-Deen Fund. 348.46
$ 4,221.74
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George-Deen Fund for Evening Classes
Balance from 1940
$ 158.00
Received from State Dept. of Education, Federal Funds.
658.00
$ 816.00
Expended for salaries of teachers .
$ 753.00
Balance
63.00
$ 816.00
Vocational Education of Defense Workers
Receipts
Federal Funds.
$
5,622.99
Expenditures
Salaries
$ 3,806.60
Attleboro Ice Company.
15.00
Attleboro Print, Inc.
14.00
Attleboro Steam & Electric Company .
84.02
Brownell Hardware Company
68.08
Congress Steel Company
349.55
Lewis A. Fales.
2.30
Grant's, Inc.
.25
A. S. Ingraham.
144.36
J. William Metters
3.90
Mossberg Pressed Steel Corp.
10.80
George T. Reynolds & Son, Inc.
16.50
Frank H. Straker
3.15
Universal Textile Company.
19.50
Total expended.
$ 4,538.01
Balance.
1,084.98
$ 5,622.99
ANNUAL REPORT
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS New Hebronville School (Finberg School)
January 1, 1941, Balance. $ 1,361.15
August 15, 1941, transferred to Watson Avenue School Construction Account . 1,361.15
Watson Avenue School Construction Account
Balance from 1940
$103,325.10
August transfer
1,361.15
Dec. 31, 1941, refund on freight charge.
1.55
Expenditures
$104,687.80
Expenditures
Kilham, Hopkins & Greeley Co. $ 2,151.90
James A. Munroe & Sons .
85,307.57
Labor
4,709.18
Adams Asphalt Co.
733.70
American Seating Co
37.32
M. F. Ashley & Co ..
62.44
Atherton Furniture Co.
621.60
Attleboro Gas Light Co.
196.00
Attleboro Steam & Electric Co ..
154.66
J. J. Bidden Cordage Co.
11.00
Ernest Broadbent.
724.19
Brownell Hardware Co.
1.40
Chase Brass & Copper Co.
354.89
Congdon & Carpenter Co.
17.64
Everett O. Dexter Co ..
561.67
R. S. Dunham Lumber Co.
24.88
William R. Dunlap.
50.00
Electric Shop.
17.43
Farm Service Co.
136.50
Filing Equipment Bureau
64.50
Fine's . .
22.96
William Flynn & Son.
72.20
William H. J. Hooper
61.20
E. L. LeBaron Foundry Co.
1,103.53
Massachusetts Reformatory
4,966.40
N. Y., N. H. & Hartford R. R. Co.
148.83
Parker, Danner Co ..
795.00
Pitcher & Co., Inc ..
354.37
Edith C. Richards. W. H. Riley & Son
5.00
A. B. Stanley Co.
30.00
State Tree Expert Co.
13.80
Sun Publishing Co.
6.00
Times Publishing Co ..
64.29
C. M. White Iron Works
5.40
103,957.56
F. W. Woolworth Co ..
730.24
Balance
183.34
J. L. Hammett Co.
32.00
Jarrell-Ash Co. .
15.84
Lyon Metal Products Inc ..
18.45
120.48
$104,687.80
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Report of the Superintendent of Schools
To the School Committee of Attleboro:
I submit herewith my thirty-seventh annual report, it being the fifty-seventh in the series of Superintendents' Annual Reports.
STATISTICS
I. Population
Census, 1930
21,769
1935
21,835
1940.
22,071
II. School Census, October, 1941
Number of children between the ages of 5 and 7.
534
Number of children between the ages of 7 and 16.
2,780
Total
3,314
III. Attendance
Total number of different pupils enrolled.
3,595
Average daily membership.
3,426
Average daily attendance.
3,230
Per cent of attendance.
94
Table showing the average membership of the High and the Elementary Schools from 1930-1931 to 1940- 1941.
High Gain or
Elem. Schools
Gain
All Schools Gain
Sept .- June
Av. Memb.
Loss
Av. or Memb. Loss
Av. or Memb. Loss
1930-1931
693
-28
3333
92
4026
120
1931-1932
823
130
3302
-31
4125
99
1932-1933
920
97
3356
54
4276
151
1933-1934
893
-27
3263
-93
4156
-120
1934-1935
918
25
3192
-71
4110
-46
1935-1936
895
-23
3036
-156
3931
-179
1936-1937
875
-20
2949
-87
3824
-107
1937-1938
919
44
2836
-113
3755
-69
1938-1939
924
5
2769
-67
3693
-62
1939-1940
943
19
2669
-100
3612
-81
1940-1941
901
-42
2525
-144
3426
-186
Gain or loss in 10 years
208
808
600
Compare these figures with a decreased appropriation of $39,716.00 in the same period.
Fall Term, September-December, 1941
High
Elem. Schools
All Schools
September
848
2497
3345
October.
838
2501
3339
November.
834
2503
3337
December
822
2483
3305
Loss since September
26
14
40
Gain
Loss
Loss
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SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Number of School Buildings in Use.
12
Number of Classrooms (H. S. 34; Grades 85; Vocational 6) 125
The event of the year, the culmination of many years of effort and hopeful wishing, was the opening of the Thomas Willett School on Watson Avenue when schools began in September. This new building houses all the pupils who were in the Capron and the Sanford Street schools, and three rooms of pupils who would have attended the Bank Street School. It also cares for the vocational school, having shops for the boys and domestic science rooms for the girls. All pupils have the use of the auditorium-gymnasium, a new feature in the Attleboro school system. The following description of the building was furnished by the architects, Kilham, Hopkins and Greeley.
The Thomas Willett School is located between the high land on Watson Avenue and the low area occupied by the Municipal Playground, and takes advantage of the great differences in level by a plan in which class rooms are all on the ground level; those on the lower floor of the building are level with the grounds on the south side; those on the upper floor with the Watson Avenue grounds. There is, however, in the center unit a third story in which the con- tinuation school for girls is housed in a separate suite of rooms, cooking, sewing, class and toilet rooms, all one flight above the ground.
The class rooms are distributed along the southerly side in order to make maximum use for the children of the sunny exposure, administrative rooms are on the north, as also the main toilets. In the southeast corner is located the kindergarten with its special facilities, including a large semicircular bay window. Over this bay is a sundial carefully worked out for the exact latitude and long- itude to tell accurately the sun-time, as well as the day of the year. This was in charge of an expert in this field, R. N. Mayall.
The boys' continuation work, like the girls, has its own suite of rooms. Under the gymnasium, are provided shop and class room accommodations, with full size windows opening to the west, and with a door and driveway for auto- mobiles. The electric service meter and switch room is in this part of the building
In the west wing is an assembly hall designed also for use as a gymnasium, and equipped with stage, chair storage room and separate vestibuled entrances from outdoors.
The building is equipped with the most complete and modern system of heating and ventilation, Mr. A. R. Moller, the designer, has worked out and tested all the special features to give adequate and responsive automatic control. The lighting and power system, designed by Mr. E. P. Mahard, is planned on the most approved lines and provides the required illumination, motorization, clock and bell service, sound distribution layout, etc. There is also a system of emer- gency gas lighting in case of failure of electric current.
The building itself is constructed according to the high standards laid down by the Commonwealth, with additional safeguards which the architects, Kilham, Hopkins & Greeley, have been able to include within the appropriation that was made available.
The design has been worked out to safeguard the pupils and facilitate their school work and play, but always with economy in view, and with a minimum of expenditure on anything that could be called ornamentation or elaboration. The architects have had the assistance of the local firm of Higgins & Johnston through- out the period of construction. This construction was all in the hands of James A. Munroe of North Attleboro, general contractor, who has been most cooperative under an extremely difficult and exacting market, as far as building is concerned, but whose energy and patience have helped to complete the contract successfully.
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TEACHERS
Number of Teachers
December 1941
High School
35
GradesI-VIII
91
Kindergartens
2
Supervisors and special teachers.
6
Vocational School
4
Total
138
APPROPRIATIONS
The following figures show how the appropriations for schools has diminished in the last ten years.
Fiscal Year
Salaries
Other Expenses
Total
1931
$299,076
$ 55,140
$354,216
1932
284,737
45,605
330,342
1933
232,210
43,163
275,373
1934
244,902
45,845
290,747
1935
248,255
49,558
297,813
1936
272,000
57,777
329,777
1937
272,000
46,810
318,810
1938
272,506
46,940
319,446
1939
268,480
47,560
316,040
1940
265,308
47,880
313,188
1941
259,935
54,565
314,500
Reduction in 10 years.
$39,141
$575
$39,716
Compare this decrease in appropriations with a net drop in enrollment of 600 pupils in the same period.
COST OF INSTRUCTION
Valuation of Attleboro, 1941
$25,083,880.00
Tax Rate per $1,000, 1941
34.20
Expended for support of schools, excluding Vocational School
300,374.23
Average membership of day schools, Sept. 1940-June 1941.
3426
Expended per pupil based on average membership
87.67
Cost of books and supplies per pupil.
3.10
High School
Total expended for High School, including High School share of general expense . $ 88,172.17
Average membership of High School, 1940-1941.
901
Cost per pupil.
97.86
Cost of books and supplies per pupil.
4.31
Elementary Schools
Total Expended.
$ 212,202.06
Average membership, 1940-1941.
2525
Cost per pupil
84.04
Cost of books and supplies per pupil.
2.66
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COMPARATIVE COST OF THE SCHOOLS STATE REPORT FOR 1940-1941
Attleboro's Rank in the State 351 Cities and Towns
Population, Census 1940, 22,071. Attleboro's Rank No. 40
Valuation, Jan. 1, 1940, $24,554,795 Attleboro's Rank No. 45
Valuation per pupil $7,205 Attleboro's Rank No. 160
Cost per pupil, $90.06. Attleboro's Rank in the State No. 273
Seventy-eight cities and towns have a lower cost as follows:
Group I-39 Cities, 6 have lower cost.
Average cost for the group $111.78
Group II-85 Towns, 27 have lower cost.
99.62
Group III-110 Towns, 33 have lower cost 98.88
Group IV-117 Towns, 12 have lower cost.
114.88
Average for State-351 Cities and Towns $107.91
Attleboro's Rank No. 273. Attleboro's Cost $90.06
From the same report. Cost per pupil:
1. Attleboro $90.06
2. Taunton. 93.88
3. North Attleboro. 93.87
4. Mansfield. 93.18
5. Norton. 86 36
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Cities and Towns Having a Lower Cost Per Pupil Than Attleboro State Report 1940-1941
Town
Cost
or City
Cost per pupil
Town or City
per pupil
273
Attleboro.
.$90.06
313
Ashburnham
$82.80
274
Raynham
90.01
314
Clinton.
82.36
275
Watertown.
89.77
315
Middleton.
81.40
276
Westford.
89.74
316
Tewksbury
80.97
277
Cloucester
89.59
317
Atho
80.43
278
Everett
89.45
318
Millbury
80.42
279
Bernardston.
89.20
319
Charlton
80.15
280
Provincetown
89.18
320
Cheshire .
79.38
281
Townsend.
89.17
321
North Reading.
79.23
282
New Bedford
89.02
322
Douglas.
78.47
283
Framingham.
88.91
323
Seekonk
78.16
284
Weymouth
88.71
324
Medway
77.49
285
Holbrook.
88.00
325
Woburn.
77.38
286
Dartmouth.
87.44
326
Stoughton.
77.32
287
Burlington
87.32
327
Rockland.
76.58
288
Georgetown
87.24
328
Pepperill .
76.19
289
Westborough
87.20
329
W. Bridgewater
76.03
290
Easton.
87.14
330
Rowley
75.36
291
Fairhaven. .
87.13
331
Franklin
75.33
292
Southbridge
86.92
332
Billerica
74.87
293
Maynard
86.81
333
Winchendon
74.61
294
Swansea.
86.74
334
Orange
74.20
295
Northbridge
86.69
335
Saugus
74.09
296
Norton .
86.36
336
Chelmsford .
73.46
297
Hanson
86.28
337
Avon . .
73.01
298
Adams
86.14
338
Dracut.
72.74
299
E. Bridgewater
85.82
339
Merrimac.
72.32
300
Middleboro
85 75
340
Leicester
71.83
301
Millville
85.67
341
Randolph
71 33
302
Ayer.
85.60
342
Auburn.
71.25
303
Newburyport
85.37
343
Northboro
71.21
304
Holden . .
85.36
344
Mendon.
70.73
305
Bellingham.
85.12
345
Templeton.
70.53
306
Acushnet.
84.82
346
Holliston
68.70
307
Wayland
84.44
347
Rehoboth
65.68
308
Brockton
84.40
348
Oxford
65.69
309
Salisbury
84.09
349
Upton
65.42
310
Scituate.
83.15
350
Sutton
64.34
311
Groveland.
83.12
351
Wilmington
59.53
312
Westport.
83.12
87
ANNUAL REPORT
ATTLEBORO'S RANK IN THE STATE 351 TOWNS AND CITIES
STATE REPORT 1904-1941
Population Census 1930
Valuation Jan. 1. 1940 $24,254,795
· Valuation per Pupil $7,205
Cost per Pupil $90.06
22,071 Rank No. 40
Rank No. 45 Rank No. 160
Rank No. 273
5 15 25 35 45 55 65 75 85 95 105 115 125 135 145 155 165 175 185 195 205 215 225 235 245 255 265 275 285 295 305 315 325 335 345 351
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ANNUAL REPORT
JEWELRY TRADES SCHOOL
This school opened in September as a full-fledged trade school. Three additional instructors were employed, one for toolmaking, one for related work and one for academic subjects, and the boys spend alternately one week in the shop and one week at the High School. The attendance has been more regular than in previous years, and the work done has been of a higher standard. Full details are given in the director's report.
Jewelry Trades School Financial Statement
Appropriated
Expended
Balance
Salaries paid by City
$ 8,649.75
$ 7,566.38
$ 1,083.37
Rent .. .
1,480.00
1,586.64
-106.64
Equipment.
900.86
-900.86
Maintenance.
2,400.00
2,722.34
-322.34
Shop changes
1,000.00
651.15
348.85
$13,529.75
$13,427.37
$ 102.38
RESIGNATIONS
The following resignations and retirements occurred during the year:
1941
Teacher
School
Reason
March 17
Mary M. Whalen
Tiffany
To be married To be married
March 24
Bernice E. Trulson
Richardson
May 3
Helen Claflin
High
Another position
June 3
Alice Larson
Finberg
To be married
June 20
Helen Cassels
Washington
To be married
June 24
Katherine L. Johnson
Washington
To be married
June 24
Catherine J. Bruen
Bliss
To be married
July 7
Carolyn Churchill
High
July 9
Alice Gaw
Washington
To be married
July 28
Mary L. Shields
Farmers
Better position
August 13
John A. MacDonald
High
Business
August 14
Joice B. Winstanley
Washington
To be married
October 17
Barbara E. Hart
Finberg
To be married
November 18
Rozelda Vernick
Lincoln
To be married
November 22
Barbara L. Stanley
Richardson
To be married
RETIREMENTS
July 1 Mrs. Abbie E. Hill, for many years a teacher in Attleboro and for twenty years principal of the Tiffany School.
July 1 Milton P. Dutton, for twenty-nine years a principal in the Bliss and Bank Street schools.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Philip L. Garland, Principal of the High School, to study at Teachers College, Columbia University.
PENMANSHIP
The schools have done excellent work in penmanship as the following figures show. Awards are given by the Palmer Company on papers submitted to them. Only 145 pupils out of 2,406 pupils enrolled in June, 1941, did not have the award for their grade. A total of 2261 pupils did as well as was expected of them.
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ANNUAL REPORT
Summary of Awards 1940-1941
School
June Enroll- ment
Pupils not holding grade award or above in June 1941
Pupils holding grade award or above in June 1941
Per Cent. 100
%
1
Capron
45
45
100
1
Bank Street .
137
1
136
99.3%
2
Washington
266
2
264
99.2%
3
Pleasant Street
69
1
68
98.5%
4
Richardson.
367
19
348
94
5
Plat .
27
2
25
92.6%
6
Sanford Street .
271
21
250
92.3%
7
Farmers.
90
7
83
92
%
8
Bliss.
426
37
389
91.3%
9
Lincoln
205
20
185
90.2%
10
Tiffany
230
23
207
90
%
11
Briggs Corner
76
12
64
84
%
12
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