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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
TO THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND CITIZENS OF CHELMSFORD:
I am pleased to submit my fourth annual report as Superintendent of Schools, the 53rd in the series of such reports.
I also transmit to you a "Financial Summary" the usual statistical tables and the reports of the other executive and supervisory officers, all of which deserve your thoughtful attention.
PROBLEMS
It is our belief that the parents and citizens of the town should always be kept well informed of any special problems confronting their school officials. Therefore we hope to call to their attention cer- tain problems that are facing them, as parents and taxpayers, as well as you, their representatives of the School Department.
The transportation problem is one that has required much study by the Committee the past fall. The total number of pupils transport- ed has increased from 310 in the fall of 1923, to 44) pupils in the fall of 1926, or an increase of 41.9%. Our facilities are two, large town owned busses and two smaller busses, privately contracted for. the same as we had in 1923. We feel we have reached just about the limit of our ability to transport any more pupils. This fall on several trips the busses were crowded and when this condition is reached, the Com- mittee does not wish to be held responsible for the safety of the child- ren. This crowded condition was finally overcome by assigning cer- tain pupils to a different bus or to a different building, but the limit of re-adjustment in this manner, with our steadily increasing enroll-
ient is just about reached. It seems the committee must accept one of three alternatives; reduce the amount of transportation by the adoption of a rule, that no pupil shall be transported unless he or she lives a mile and a quarter or a mile and a half from the school to which he is assigned; increase our transportation facilit es by the purchase of an additional bus; or recommend the building of a new school house, so located as to relieve greatly the amount of transpor- tation required of our present facilities.
The State Law does not require the transportation of school children unless they live more than two miles from the school to which they are assigned, however, the policy of the School Committee of Chelmsford for many years has been to transport any pupils living more than one mile from their school. Because of this policy in effect for so many years, it is our belief that many parents would object seriously to the requirement that their children should walk for greater distances than one mile, even though the Committee is not required by State Law to furnish transportation unless they live more than two miles from their school. On the other hand, no doubt
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many citizens would object to the increase of our means for transpor- tation by the purchase of an additional bus. Your superintendent is inclined to believe the wisest solution to the problem, probably would be the erection of at least an eight room building on one of the cross-roads, approximately half way between the Groton and Dun- stable Roads. We are now transporting from those sections to the Princeton and Quessey Schools, 157 pupils, enough already to require five class rooms. Such a building, modern in every respect, with adequate playgrounds and properly equipped to fulfill the needs as your Committee sets them, would relieve greatly our present transportation problem and provide for future growth in the school population of those sections for several years to come. Moreover this building would relieve entirely the present congested conditions in both the Princeton Street and the Highland Avenue Schools, and the necessity for the provision of more class rooms at North Chelmsford is impera. tive even at the present time. Furthermore it will not be but a few years before we shall have to make additions to both the Westlands and East Chelmsford Schools to provide more class rooms, or assign grades seven and eight of those schools, to the new Centre Grade School, so rapid is the growth of the school population in the above sections.
This problem of future additions to our present school plant raises at once, the question of the desirability of the organization of Junior High Schools in Chelmsford. In almost every community in Massach- setts where new buildings are being constructed, the 6-3-3 plan, i. e., 6 years of Elementary School, 3 years of Junior High School and 3 years of Senior High School, is being followed. The following data with respect to the above question is particularly pertinent to the average citizen who is called upon to support expenditures for new buildings:
1. 24 of the 39 cities of Massachusetts maintain Junior High Schools. Of the 95,000 pupils of grades 7, 8 and 9, in these. cities, 65,000 are enrolled in Junior High Schools.
2. Of the 79 towns with a population of over 5.000 in Massachu- setts. 39 have Junior High Schools. Of the total of 30,752 pupils in grades 7, 8 and 9 in these towns, 15,000 are enrolled in Junior High Schools.
3. Of the total of 118 towns and cities of over 5,000 in Massachu- setts, 643 have Junior High Schools. Of a total of 125,752 pupils in grades 7, 8 and 9 in these towns and cities, 80,000 are enrolled in Junior High Schools.
4. During the past five years, Massachusetts has expended over $40,000,000 for school buildings. Over half, in fact, 51% of this expend- iture has been for buildings erected to provide for the Junior High School form of organization. The above is conclusive evidence that the people of the Commonwealth have definitely committed themselves to the Junior High School Idea.
5. The North Central Association comprising 19 states, showed the following situation in 1925 for 233 school systems reporting: 550% were organized on the 6-3-3 basis; 34% were organized on the 6-6 basis; 1.7% were organized on a 6-2-4 basis and only 9% retained the 8-4 plan of organization," which we still have in Chelmsford. This indicates that the re-organization of the school work in the upper grades is not only taking place rapidly in Massachusetts, but the movement is Country Wide. The above data was gleaned from a report by Frank W. Wright, State Director of Elementary and Secondary Education.
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Another need deserving the careful consideration of all is a thoroughly trained Director of Physical Education who could do much through preventive and remedial work, toward the development of strong, healthful bodies of our boys and girls. Most of our teachers, our nurse and school physicians, are doing very valuable work to im- prove the posture, alertness and healthful demeanor of our pupils, though the Committee feel that much more might be accomplished if we had a trained physical director. You have this year provided in the Budget for the employment of such a director. Besides supervising the physical exercises taught the pupils by our teachers, he would have complete control of the development of all athletic teams for all the grade schools, as well as for the high school. We hope every citizen will support the Committee in this desire.
Another desire of the Committee is to see a High School Band de- veloped and you have also provided in the Budget for the employment of a Band Instructor, beginning next September.
One educational aim to which we have as yet given almost no atten- tion in Chelmsford is that of some pre-vocational guidance for our boys and girls. To our mind, of the seven educational aims recognized to- day, next to 'Health" and the teaching of . the "Fundamentals, i. e., the 3 R's: Reading, Riting and Rithmetic," the most important is Pre- vocational Guidance. In my report of December 1923 I discussed the topic of Vocations rather fully and would suggest that it merits your reading again.
The home and school programs should include a combination of play, handwork, co-operative activity, and academic work, the whole being varied enough to represent life's demands, and concrete enough to secure an effective response and successful accomplishment by each individual child. True, in a few of our schools we do have sewing, food, agricultural and poultry clubs, organized through the co-operation of the Middlesex County Extension Service and I believe these clubs are very helpful and of much educational value to the few pupils, sufficient- ly interested to join them. Besides, I believe we are offering a real efficient business or commercial course in our high school. However for all children before the school leaving age there should be provided a wide variety of try-out experiences in academic and aesthetic work, gardening, simple processess with tools and machines, elementary con- mercial experiences, and co-operative pupil activities. Such try-out experiences are for the purpose of teaching efficiency in everyday tasks, broadening the social and occupational outlook of the children, and dis- covering to them, their parents and teachers, their interests and abil- ities.
Drifting through school is a common evil in all educational sys- tems. The life-career motive, whether temporary or permanent, should be encouraged as one of the motives in the choice of a curri- culum and of certain elective subjects within a curriculum. To help adapt the schools to the needs of the pupils and the community, and to make sure that each child obtains the equality of opportunity that is due him, it is our duty to establish courses of study that will har- moniously combine the practical with the cultural subjects.
WORK OF THE YEAR
Standard Achievment tests were again given last May in the fund- amental subjects and in almost all subjects and grades better scores were made than in the past four years. For the most part our teachers
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are teaching much more effectively, diagnosing individual difficulties by testing, giving remedial drill at the proper time and to whom neces- sary, better than ever before.
You will remember that a year ago, in fact on December 10, 1925, our grades 5, 6 and 7 competed in a state-wide arithmetic contest in co-operation with the School of Education of Boston University. Below I am giving you a report on this contest, a study of which will show you that the scores for Chelmsford compare very closely to the median scores made by the 98 towns and cities that competed in the contest.
REPORT ON MASSACHUSETTS STATE WIDE ARITHMETIC CONTEST OF DEC. 10, 1925
Below are summary tables showing the comparative data for grades 5, 6, and 7 respectively for cities and towns completing the contest. The ten columns show, under each of the four fundamental processes and fractions, the average score (left hand column under process) and % of pupils of the grade making a perfect score (right hand column under process). For example, line 1 under Grade 5 shows that the fifth grade pupils of Chelmsford secured an average of 45.2 in addition (perfect score is 50, for each process), and that 40.6% of the pupils of the grade made a perfect score in addition; etc.
Also there is shown for each grade under each process on the two items on the table, 1, the high grade score; 2, the third quartile: 3, the median score; 4, the first quartile, and 5, the low score, for all cities making returns. This makes easy comparison.
No. Pupils Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division Fraction
Av.
%
Av.
Av.
%
Av.
%
Av.
GRADE 5
Chelmsford
98
45.2
40.6
41.2
23.9
36.2
9.3
31.4
10.4
7.5
0
High
49.4
88.8
48.8
72.2
45.2
44.3
43.6
77.7
35.4
9
Q3
47.3
63.1
44.7
42.6
37.6
22.5
37.9
20.0
17.7
0
Median
46.2
54.6
43.3
34.9
35.
15.
35.3
14.8
11.1
0
Q1
44.9
42.8
41.2
23.9
32.
7.6
32.
7.3
8.1
0
LOW
34.
20.
29.6
5.1
19.5
0.
21.2
0.
0.
0
GRADE 6
Chelmsford 112
47.
58.1
45.7
39.2
34.5
0.
38.5
18.7
20.7
1.3
High
50.
100.
49.
81.8
47.3
54.2
47.6
80.
46.
33.3
Q3
48.2
72.4
47.1
55.5
41.2
27.2
42.4
38.4
36.8
9.3
Median
47.8
66.6
45.7
47.1
38.3
21.1
40.7
30.2
31.5
9.5
Q1
46.9
57.1
44.6
39.5
34.7
13.
37.8
22.2
26.9
1.7
LOW
39.5
29.8
33.
10.3
29.4
0
28.5
0.
10.6
0.
GRADE 7
Chelmsford
95
47.1
75.
46.9
49.
41.5
31.
41.3
35.
29 ..
2.
High
49.5
92.
50.
100.
49.1
64.4
48.9
82.8
45.
42.2
Median
48.
72.
46.
54.5
40.7
26.3
43.3
40.
34.9
8.6
Low
43.9
42.8
35.1
14.2
32.
34.2
0.
7.5
0.
Q3
48.4
76.4
47.7
62.5
42.7
0. 32.8
44.6
48.7
39.3
13.4
Q1
47.2
64.8
45.6
44.6
39.1
19.1
41.
32.2
29.6
4.7
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By median score for a grade in any subject, we mean, that there were just as many pupils who scored below the median score as there were other pupils who scored above the median. To afford comparison, another similar contest was held the last of this December. This con- test included all New England but we have not received the results of this test.
TEACHERS
By resignation last spring and summer we lost only two teachers, both of whom had given faithful and efficient service. Miss Jane E. McEnaney was elected to take the place of Miss Norah C. Mahoney, resigned to be married. and Miss Estelle M. Buckley was elected to take the place of Miss Mary K. Daley, resigned to teach in Lowell, Miss Katie D. Greenleaf, who had. given excellent service as principal of the East School for two years, was transferred at her own request to take charge of the two grade room at the Center School and Mr. Louis O. Forrest, was elected to the principalship of the East School. These new teachers are giving excellent satisfaction and our other teachers are serving faithfully and efficiently as previously.
ATTENDANCE
The percent of attendance, 94.85 for all schools last year is the best record made in the past 12 years and is an exceedingly important factor providing, to say the least, the opportunity for the best of results from the school work. Last year we had a total of only 750 tardy marks whereas the previous year the total was 1163, in fact, this was the best record with respect to tardiness for the past six years. Both these records are plainly indicative that a majority of our teachers, with the splendid co-operation of parents and the pupils themselves, are suceeding in training our children in those very important habits of regularity and punctuality in school attendance. Of course these splen- did records may also be due somewhat to the better supervision of the health of our pupils, or on the average better weather conditions for the year.
HEALTH SUPERVISION
Study of the "Health Supervision-Summary" when compared with that of the previous year shows excellent results from the medical ex- amination. The total number of defects found this fall was 1248, whereas the previous fall, 1203 cases were found. Altho the number of defects was greater this fall than a year ago this slight increase might easily explained as due to a large number of defects found in those children entering our schools for the first time or due possibly to a more thorough examination on the part of our school physicians. The number of cases treated since last examination or 922 was a little less than the number treated the previous year, when the number was 982. However, it is perfectly clear that parents are giving attention to the reports of the results of the examination and the excellent "follow-up" of the school nurse.
In closing, I wish to assure the Committee that I appreciate ex- ceeedingly your advice and loyal support, and the splendid co-operation of the parents, teachers, pupils and Parent-Teachers' Associations.
Respectfully submitted,
C. H. WALKER.
January 21, 1927.
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Payments 1926 Amounts Totals
Grand
General Control-
Expenses School Committee:
Expenses Attendance Officers
Expenses School Census
.$ 798.13 $
798.13 $
Expenses Graduations
Expenses Travel
Expenses Supt.'s Office
Expenses All Other
Salary Superintendent
3,199.92
3,199.92
$ 3,998.05
Instruction-
Teachers' Salaries :
High
$14,251.40
Elementary
43,096.13
Supervisors
2,893.44
Evening School
96.00
$60,336.97
Books and Supplies:
High
$ 1,510.52
Elementary
2,566.93
4,077.45
Operation and Maintenance-
Jan.tor Service:
High
$ 1,709.94
Elementary
5,650.00
Janitor Supplies :
High
$ 336.85
Elementary
149.24
Water, Light and Power
$ 1,050.74. $ 1,050.74
Repairs and Expenses:
High
1,103.39
Elementary
2,894.33
3,997.72
Fuel:
1,637.76
Elementary
4,044.98
5,682.74
$18,577.23
159
$64,414.42
$ 7,359.94
$ 486.09
High
Totals
Auxiliary Agencies-
Transportation :
High
4,285.59
Elementary
4,276.64
8,562.23
Salary School Nurse
$ 1,500.00
1,500.00
Supplies School Nurse
75.88
75.88
Salaries School Physicians
600.00
600.00
Outlays-
New Equipment
$ 1,496.46
1,496.46
Heating Plans & Specifications
350.00
350.00
Heating Units for North & West.
12.428.00
12,428.00
Sanitary Plans & Specifications West ..
26.50
26.50
Plans for Athletic Field
100.00
100.00
New Ctr. Grade School
48,211.12
48,211.12.
$62,612.08
Other Payments-
Insurance
465.50
465.50
Vocational School, Lowell
3,270.70
3,270.70
$ 3,736.20
Total Payments
$164,076.09
* Paid by Special Committee.
** Paid by Special Building Committee.
* Paid by Selectmen.
RECEIPTS 1926
Appropriation, Feb. 1926 $100,300.00
Refunds, during 1926, (Vocational School) 201.95
1,269.49
Reimbursement from State, for Tuition Paid Vocational School
1,240.52
Reimbursement on Account of Teachers' Salaries, from State Reimbursement on Account of Tuition of State Wards.
949.28
Received from all other Tuition
253.86
Special Appropriation for Heating, Plans & Specifications:
Special Appropriation for Heating Princeton St. & Quessey Schools
350.00
Special Appropriation for Heating Units, Princeton & Quessey Schools 12,500.00
Special Appropriation for Sanitary Plans & Specifications, Quessey School
100.00
Special Appropriation for Plans for Athletic Field 100.00
Special Appropriation for Grading at New Centre School. 4,825.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund of Finance Committee
214.42
Total Receipts $130,944.52
160
$10.738.11
*
Received from Dog Tax
8,640.00
SUMMARY DECEMBER 31, 1926
Appropriation, not including any other receipts.
$100.300.00 Payments on account of current expenses of the schools 99,224.27
Unexpended Balance $ 1,075.73 Total payments for schools, not including those from Special Appropriations, or for Insurance & Vocational School. 99,224.27
Total Reimbursements, including Dog Tax and "other tuition," but not including reimbursement or refund from Vocational School
11,112.63
Net payments for schools, from local taxation
$ 88,111.64
SCHOOL BUDGET FOR 1927
Appropriations for 1926
Payments for 1926
Proposed for 1927
General Control
$ 4,000.00
$ 3,998.05
$ 4,300.00
Instruction
64,200.00
64,414.42
69,000.00
Operation & Maintenance
18,900.00
18,577.23
18,900.00
Auxiliary Agencies
11,700.00
10,738.11
11,200.00
Outlays
1,500.00
1,496.46
1,500.00
$100,300.00
$ 99,224.27
$104,900.00
A few individual items in the above tables will be found to differ from those of the Town Accountant's report, because of the fact that the State Board of Education requires different classification of ex- penditures than the Bureau of Statistics.
INVENTORY OF SCHOOL PROPERTY
Buildings .$ 65,000.00
Land
High School
New Center Grade School
143,000.00
5,000.00
Princeton St. (New)
30,000.00
3,000.00
33,000.00
Princeton St. (Old)
7,000.00
7,000.00
Highland Ave.
30,000.00
1,000.00
31,000.00
Quessey
30,000.00
350.00
30,350.00
South
15,000.00
200.00
15,200.00
South Row
4,000.00
150.00
4,150.00
East
45,000.00
300.00
45,300.00
Westlands
30,000.00
1,800.00
31,800.00
$399,000.00
$ 14,800.00
$413,800.00
$ 3,000.00
Total $ 68,000.00 148,000.00
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SCHOOL STATISTICS-1925-26 Attendance
School
Number of
Day in Session
Boys
Girls
Average Daily
Membership
Average Daily
Attendance
Attendance
Per cent
Tardiness
High
182
79
123
185.75
178.75 96.23
74
Center Grade 1
176
23
14
31.68
29.69
93.71
19
Center Grade 2
176
18
18
32.12
30.61
95.29
15
Center Grade 3
176
14
8
22.04
21.02
95.
13
Center Grade 4
176
16
16
30.25
29.39
97.15
7
Center Grade 5
176
22
19
38.
35.76
94.11
6
Center Grade 6
176
23
29
45.28
43.31
95.65
4
Center Grade 7
176
19
18
32.13
31.02
96.23
4
Center Grade 8
176
17
21
36.08
34.64
96.
5
Westlands Grades 1 & 2
176.5
21
18
38.86
36.05
92.76
12
Westlands Grades 3 & 4
176.5
18
19
34.73
33.11
95.33
6
Westlands Grades 5 & 6
176.5
11
22
32.10
30.95
96.41
7
Westlands Grades 7 & 8
176.5
7
10
14.12
13.53
95.82
7
East Grades 1 & 2
176.5
18
18
35.70
31.63
88.60
38
East Grades 3 & 4
176.5
11
10
22.32
20.71
92.78
18
East Grades 5 & 6
176.5
23
8
31.17
28.93
96.02
24
East Grades 7 & 8
176.5
12
12
23.75
22.07
92.92
12
South Grades 1, 2 & 3
176.5
11
11
18.09
17.29
95.56
4
South Grades 4, 5 & 6
176.5
19
10
24.99
23.91
95.60
28
South Row Grades 1, 2, 3, 4
176.5
10
8
17.96
16.90
94.
41
Princeton Street Grade 1
176.5
17
21
35.63
31.77
89.16
22
Princeton Street Grade 2
176.5
24
22
41.08
38.
91.85
17
Princeton Street Grade 3
176.5
19
22
35.73
33.72
94.35
12
Princeton Street Grade 4
176.5
17
14
30.82
29.22
94.81
85
Princeton Street Grade 5
176.5
17
21
30.77
29.43
95.62
13
Princeton Street
Grade
6
176.5
20
21
37.51
35.87
95.63
31
Princeton Street Grade 7
176.5
22
13
35.06
33.92
96.75
41
Princeton Street Grade
8
176.5
14
18
30.30
29.61
97.72
23
Highland Ave. Grades 1 & 2
176.5
17
27
31.83
29.73
93.51
28
Highland Ave. Grades 2 & 3
176.5
12
21
29.37
28.
94.31
30
Highland Ave. Grades 4 & 5
176.5
18
18
39.38
37.74
95.85
37
Highland Ave. Grades 6 & 7
176.5
12
19
36.79
35.75
97.16
6
Quessy Grades 1 & 2
176.5
20
9
35.52
32.78
92.49
6
Quessy Grades 3 & 4
176.5
23
20
38.04
36.41
95.20
13
Quessy Grades 5 & 6
176.5
8
15
27.70
26.10
94.20
26
Quessy Grades 7 & 8
176.5
17
7
25.79
24.80
95.88
16
Total or Average
176.
669
695
1288.14 1222.12
94.85
750
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CHELMSFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS Enrollment, October 1, 1926 .
Grades:
1
2
3
4
10
6
7
S
9
10
11
12
Ttls.
High
79
57
46 32
216
Center
38
29
30
26
35
43
56
30
. .
..
. .
.
287
Princeton
39
36
40
37
32
30
32
33
...
·
279
Highland
(14
20) (18
21) (13
23) (17
19)
..
.
145
Quessy
(24
17) (18
19) (17
10) (20
11)
..
..
. .
..
. .
. .
. .
..
. .
.
. .
·
168 157 157 141
136
136
146
125
79
57
46
32
1382
. .
. .
COMPARATIVE TABLE FOR SIX YEARS
1920-21 1921-22
1922-23 1923-24 1924-25
1925-26
No. pupils enrolled
1210
1153
1214
1326
1386
1364
Av. Membership
1084.78
1116
1119.67
1221.69
1337.42
1288.44
Av. Daily Attendance
991.05
1047
1038.75
1156.67
1262.65
1222.12
Percent of Attendance
91.06
93.82
92.77
94.68
94.50
94.85
No. in High School
160
184
203
210
221
202
No. of Tardinesses
1553
1007
788
938
1163
750
High School, cost per pupil in Av. Membership
$ 152.75 $ 127.67 $ 141.09 $ 137.92 $ 135.71 $ 129.36
Elementary school, cost per
pupil in Av. Membership ..
65.36
56.64
62.67
66.73
59.64
59.52
Cost of transportation
10513.18
8464.05
8968.94 7895.58
8371.10
8279.49
Per mile, per pupil per day, fiscal year
.285
.22
.195
.306
For private owned busses .
.18
.10
.097
.107
For town owned busses
.15
.14
.117
.11
..
..
. .
122
Westlands
(14
24) (15
18) 1(14
15) ( 5 15) (16
17)
East
(22
20) (22
15) (15
2) 10
41
South
(13
7) ( 9
5
3
16
South Row
4
. .
. .
-
.
136
140
15)
2 P. G.
163
AGE AND GRADE DISTRIBUTION TABLE-APRIL 1, 1926
Totals
No. Normal
% Normal
No. Over
% Over
Age
Age
Age
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Ages, Under
6
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16 17
18
19
167
151
90.4
11
6.5
5
3.1
Grade
1
CT
107
44
10
1
·
. .
.
13.3
2
1.3
Grade
2
.
2
96
39
17
2
2
. .
.
.
.
..
.
131
105
80.1
25
19.1
1
.8
Grade
3
.
. .
1
79
26
14
8
3
. .
. .
1
1
1
. .
. .
·
Grade
4
6.4
Grade
5
·
..
.
9
60
37
18
12
5
· .
. .
. .
·
176
100
56.8
50
28.4
26
14.8
Grade
6
..
. .
.
. .
1
25
62
38
24
18
7
1
. .
. .
.
126
31
64.3
27
21.4
18
14.3
Grade 7
94
77
81.9
12
12.7
5
5.4
Grade
8
5 109
141
130 125 144 146
111
78
27
4
.
·
1139
860
75.7
211
18.3
68
6.
Totals or Average . .
HIGH SCHOOL
7 11.8
10
17.
Grade
9
..
·
.
. .
.
. .
. .
.
1
14
15
11
2
1
44
26
51.1
3
6.8
15
34.1
Grade 11
10
9
7
1
27
16
59.2
1
3.7
10
37.1
Grade 12
2
2
. .
. .
. .
. .
Post Graduate
·
66.1
17
8.9
40
25.
11
28
55
42
26
11
3
176
119
Totals or Average ..
The figures in bold faced type show the number of pupils of normal age for the grade; those at right of bold faced type show the number above normal age or "over age"; those at the left show the number below normal age or "under age." With a well adapted course of study and not too arbitrary system of marking, a school system in general should show about the same percentage of "over age" and "under age" pupils.
164
48 5
33 41
18 36
S
1
. .
. .
.
.
.
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
10
23
19
6
1
. .
. .
1
44
33
75.
6
13.6
5
11.4
1
4
22
11
5
. .
Grade 10
.
.
. .
.
. .
.
.
·
.
. .
..
. .
.
2
..
142
97
68.3
36
20. 25.3
2
1.4
145
114
78.6
29
2
71
43
19
7
.
.
. .
..
.
158
135
85.4
21
.
11
1
.
59
42
71.2
Age
No. Under
% Under
.
9
1
18
HEALTH SUPERVISION-SUMMARY Sept. 1925, to Sept. 1926
Approximate date of examinations. Sept. 1925 to Dec. 1925 1312
Number of Pupils Examined
Cases
Defects Found
No. Cases Found
Notices Sent Treated Since
by Examiner
Parents
Last Exam.
Carious Teeth
558
348
802
Pendiculosis
70
70
Enlarged Tonsils
303
142
34
Defective Nasal Breathing
48
19
Cervical Glands
122
9
3
Heart
34
Fullness of Thyroid Gland
10
8
5
Disease of Skin
56
38
11
Deformity of Spine
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