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The conditions of neighborhood and concentration are such at the Adams School, as to permit at that point the most complete classification. There are three grades of Primary Schools, - a fifth- class school, which has been very successfully managed by Miss Williams ; a fourth-class school, which Miss Sheahan has gradually improved, until it can now bear comparison with either of its fel- lows ; and the school kept by Miss Mary E. Dinegan, in the High School building, of the third class, which it is always a pleasure and a satisfaction to visit. These schools are all excellent and all improving, and all doing a great deal of good for the com- munity. It will be noticed that there is no disconnected school here, and consequently there is nothing to be excused, and no
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source of embarrassment to be concealed. But immediately upon turning to the neighboring region known as Quincy Neck, the Point, and Germantown, the evil attendant upon scattered schools is apparent. By the introduction of a new school-house at some convenient point midway between the Neck and the Point, and by drafting to it the children from the Neck, and from a part at least of the region about Edwards' Hill, it will by and by be possible to dispense with the Neck School, and at the same time to add another Primary School to the system at the Washington School. Then there can be three graded schools in this class, exactly cor- responding with those in the West and South, and doubtless of equal excellence. At present the Neck School does not compare well with our best Primary Schools, although its deficiency can neither be attributed to any shortcomings of its careful and pains- taking teacher, Miss Plummer, nor to any lack of quality in its pupils. The same evil detracts from the admitted excellence of Miss Souther's school, which, but for its large number of classes, would be as perfect a school in its way as any town need wish for. But the variety of age and attainment in the children col- lected in one school, which must result from imperfect classifica- tion, requires such minute subdivision of recitation as prevents the attainment of the best practical results.
The Crane School, at Germantown, is another instance of isolation and its consequences. It bears twenty-five names upon its roll. Their ages vary from four to sixteen years. Their studies range from algebra to the alphabet. It is a whole school system from the lowest Primary to the High School in one. It has nearly as many recitations as it has pupils, and its teacher must combine the aptitudes and attainments of a gentle mother and a learned professor. Such a combination is not common, and it has hap- pened not unfrequently that Committees have left the little school- house at Germantown in great discouragement. Fortunately there is no such mischance to report at present. Miss Sheldon has proved herself emphatically the person for that place, and her worth has been recognized and appreciated by her pupils. This school has seldom made an appearance so encouraging and pleasant as it has of late. Still, it will be a fortunate day for those children when the town shall decide to transport them to the
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Washington or Coddington Schools rather than maintain this excrescence upon its plan of education ; for at the Coddington School they would have the advantage of a more perfect classifi- cation, and they would feel the full impulse of the tide of school life.
There are only two Primary Schools at the Coddington School- house, although it were greatly to be wished that there were three, as at the West and South. But one of its Primary Schools is set apart in the High School building, partly to meet the requirements of the locality and partly from want of room. There is an addi- tion required to the Coddington house, at the same time that the new building already suggested in this report is placed near Edwards' Hill, which would improve the position of things as much in the centre of the town as that would add to the advantages at the Neck and Point. But in view of the pressing exigencies in the northern parts of the town, to which extended reference has been made, it is not thought expedient to present at this time the plan which has been much considered by the Committee for a compre- hensive and permanent readjustment of the school accommodation of these parts of the town. It is sufficient here to merely indi- cate the points at which a deficiency is already apparent. Partly in consequence of its disconnection, and perhaps from other causes as well, Miss Howland's school is not quite equal to some others of its class, and fails to fully satisfy the wishes of the Committee. On the other hand, the infant's school of Miss Underwood is a charming specimen of a fifth-class school, and could only be im- proved by dividing it into two parts and forming a fourth-class school, before coming to the school of Miss Lizzie E. Morse, which is a full third class in its attainments. Indeed, Miss Morse is a teacher of such natural vivacity and energy, and succeeds so re- markably in inspiring her pupils with something of her own eager desire to excel, that some of her recitations trench occasionally upon the domain of the second-class school, or, as it is usually called, the Intermediate. The two Primary Schools at the Quincy School-house are neither of them capable of a perfect development in their present quarters. The one entrusted last autumn to the care of Miss Cora I. Young was taken from the overflowing of the school of Miss Flint. No adequate school-room could be obtained near
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by, and the basement of the building was hastily prepared for a temporary abiding-place. The room was low, but perfectly light, well warmed and dry; and thoroughly ventilated. Still it is not held up as a model upon which it is hoped that the town will pattern in future. The accommodation was poor, but sufficient for the immediate need, and preferable to detaching the school from the rest of the pupils, on the one hand, or adding an expensive edifice to that which must be soon abandoned, on the other. The new house at Atlantic will dispose for many years of the just complaints of this part of our town's-people. In the mean time Miss Young is making an admirable school of the fifth class, of the material which has been assigned to her. Miss Flint's school is one of those nominal Primary Schools which include the entire space which should be divided between two schools and a part of a third, in a good system. Hers is a fourth class, a third class, and about one half of a second class school in one, and the consequence is that it is far less satisfactory than any one of them might be by itself. The teacher has, doubtless, labored earnestly and well, and the children are as competent to acquire as any of their contemporaries in the town, but the result of the year's work is not all that could be desired, nor is the school among those to which we point with pride.
The second school at Wollaston is called a Primary School, as the first school is classed as an Intermediate School ; but as yet a thorough classification has been impracticable. The extreme rapidity of settlement at this point will require a full assortment of schools very soon, but in the mean time the immediate need is pretty well satisfied by two mixed schools of indefinite grades. The success of the second of these schools has been small, and some alteration will probably be tried in its management.
INTERMEDIATE.
The next step of the ladder is that to the class of schools, com- , monly called Intermediate, - a name which has lost much of its original significance since the Primary Schools have been graded. They might advantageously be called schools of the second class. From them there is but one step to the Grammar School, which is really the highest point in the ordinary course of study for much the largest number of our young people. The High School is a
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supplementary school. There are five schools which are at present classed as Intermediate Schools, although the first school at Wol- laston Heights combines a little of both Grammar School and High School in its composition. It has been gathered but a few weeks, and numbers only about twenty scholars as yet ; but under the vigorous hand, quick eye, and natural as well as trained aptitude and fitness of Miss H. H. Morse, it is making remarkable progress, and it is very much to be hoped that this teacher may be secured to take charge of the first-class school, which it is expected to es- tablish at this point as soon as a proper house and a sufficient at- tendance is secured. Such a selection would, it is true, be an experiment in this town, but the Committee have no doubt of its fortunate issue in the case of Miss Morse. The four Intermedi- ate Schools proper have all been doing a good work during the year. Miss Robbins, at the Washington School, could display less apparent product for her intelligent industry than the others, because a very large draft of her most advanced pupils was early removed to the Grammar School ; but she commands the perfect confidence of the Committee as fully as ever. Miss Emily A. Dine- gan's school, in the Stone School-house, was generally good, and in some particulars remarkably proficient. Her care and sedulous efforts are never relaxed in the attempt to make her school in every respect gratifying to the Committee. The school of Miss Edwards, at the Coddington, made a very good appearance at the examination, and is making fair progress. It is invidious, where all are good, to select one for special approval, but it is no more than justice if it is well deserved, and it may be calculated to call forth a stronger spirit of honorable emulation. With this motive and with no desire to detract from the well-deserved praise which has been already bestowed upon the three schools which have just been mentioned, the Committee think that a slight superiority was mani- fested by the school of Miss Veazie, at the Willard, to any of this grade. It is difficult to speak with absolute certainty where all were so good ; but this impression was common to all the Commit- tee.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
Of the four schools of this class two have steadily supported their well-established reputation for sound method, steady progress, and
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perfect discipline. They have been for some years under the same guidance, and their character is fixed. With the Willard and the Washington Schools the case had been different. Frequent changes had taken place in their management, and the result had been seen in a deterioration of discipline and a relaxation of effort. But the appointment of Mr. Hall at the Washington School, at the beginning of the year, has been productive of admirable conse- quences. The school has gained spirit and animation, and exhibits a laudable desire to get on in all its studies. The examination was exceedingly satisfactory. Miss Meade has seconded the efforts of the principal zealously and efficiently ; and it is with real pleasure that the Committee make substantially the same favorable report in regard to the Willard Grammar School. It too had suffered somewhat in its tone and discipline, and it like- wise has been entirely re-established. In September last, Mr. Higgins was elected to the care of that school. In February last, when the school was very carefully examined, it appeared as well in every respect as it ever has done within the recollection of any member of the Committee. And from a competent experience of the methods and manner of instruction adopted by the Principal, and the able and indefatigable assistance afforded him by Miss Thomas, nothing is risked by predicting the most flattering results from another year of such management. The Adams School, under Mr. Dewing, displays the same characteristics with which we have long been familiar. Nowhere is a more careful training manifest in the great first principles of a good plain education. Reading, writing, grammar, and arithmetic are nowhere more thoroughly and assiduously taught. Mr. Blood, who has acted as his assistant, has effected a great improvement in the deportment and proficiency of the department intrusted to him. Nor is the Coddington School lacking in these substantial merits, while there has been manifested there of late a desire to advance, which is cordially greeted by the Committee. An attempt has been made with flattering results by Mr. Brown in this school, as well as by Mr. Higgins at the Willard School, to diminish the reliance upon forms and text-books, which sometimes tends to weaken, rather than to strengthen, the mind, and is apt to substitute the formulas of the teacher for the reasonings of the pupil. Some tact is necessary for
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such an experiment, and, no doubt, it adds very considerably to the labor of the teacher ; but surely if it is practicable to direct rather than to carry the young learner, to encourage him to put forth his own efforts rather than to rely upon those of others, and to look for rea- sons in his own brain rather than in a book, its tendency must be to. sharpen and develop the reasoning powers. Mr. Brown has also been very fortunate in his assistant, Miss Carrie P. Barnes, who has been singularly judicious in forwarding the course of instruction which he has marked out. In some respects the results already reached are exceptionally gratifying.
HIGH SCHOOL.
This school is designed to afford to such pupils as may desire to pursue their studies somewhat beyond the bounds of a mere famil- iarity with the solid essentials of a plain common-school education, an opportunity to obtain an acquaintance with Latin and Greek, - if they elect to study them, -French, Geometry and Algebra in their elements, natural science in some of its more practical as- pects, the great fundamental principles of mental and moral action and civil polity, a glance at English literature, and a competent facility in the keeping of mercantile accounts. Of course, such a school is capable of the greatest usefulness, but for some years its value has been diminished by the small percentage of pupils who were at once prepared and desirous to partake its privileges. The present year has been more favorable. The school has been fairly filled throughout, averaging an attendance of fifty-five per- sons, who exhibit a general quality of proficiency and ability not inferior to that of any former year. There is no pupil in Quincy who desires instruction in Greek in this school, and of course no such class has been instituted. In Latin, Mr. Keith has three classes, numbering together forty-six, the more advanced of which display a very commendable knowledge of the principles of the lan- guage combined with a fair acquaintance with its construction in the authors which they have studied. The third class also seemed to be laying a sound foundation for the successful prosecution of this useful study. The school was subjected to a very careful ex- amination, extending over nearly ten hours, in January last, and the result was, upon the whole, satisfactory. In some branches of
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study, in particular, a very strong excellence was manifest, and the general tone and manner of the school was all that could be wished. It is desirable in this school, which is required by law to teach " general history, book-keeping, surveying, geometry, natu- ral philosophy, chemistry, botany, the civil polity of this Common- wealth and of the United States, the Latin, Greek, and French languages, astronomy, geology, rhetoric, logic, intellectual and moral science, and political economy," that such a distribution of time may be made among these numerous pursuits as will admit of something like a thorough attention to some few of them at once. The danger is, that an attempt to cover too much ground will ren- der your edifice insecure and unbraced, and a perpetual repetition of disconnected fragments of knowledge tend to dissipate and en- feeble the mental powers. The most valuable result of intellect- ual discipline, apart from the mere acquisition of facts, is undoubtedly the power of prolonged and intense attention to a connected series of propositions, the sum and tendency of which it is necessary to understand. This power requires a practice in con- centration, and a patient persistence in a single aim which a great variety or daily change of study must weaken. It has been the aim of the gentlemen, therefore, who have directed the course pursued in this school for some years back, to so distribute the seasons of application to the various branches of science, as to se- cure consecutive periods of unbroken study to each scientific pur- suit, combined with a persistent attention to mathematics, and some foreign language, either ancient or modern. It is our con- viction that this policy is a sound one, and should be followed as far as can be done without undue neglect of any essential element in such an education as a High School is designed to furnish. They are not really well adapted to the preparation of those who now intend to seek a collegiate or special training. The require- ments at Cambridge are becoming each year more exacting and difficult, and the share of attention which the master must be- stow upon one or two boys, to enable them to meet these require- ments, becomes necessarily more disproportioned to their relative importance in the school. What they gain must be taken from sixty others, who are equally entitled to consideration and care. It is not to be regretted, therefore, that the opening of the Adams'
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Academy, designed to meet that single demand, will probably re- lieve us of the liability to be called upon for such peculiar atten- tion, and enable the school to be devoted more perfectly to its proper work of bestowing a general and diffusive culture of its own rather than forming a single step in a broader system of complete training. Mr. Keith has conducted the school with good success, and has been very efficiently seconded by Miss S. L. Barnes, who replaced the former assistant at the opening of the year. The Com- mittee, at the urgent request of the pupils themselves, have during the year introduced the study of music to a limited extent among the occupations of the school. The subject of the expediency of adopting a thorough elementary training in music, as an essential ingredient in common-school education, has been a great deal debated, and is yet in dispute. It is required in the schools of Germany, which are considered the best in the world. But with- out entering upon the general question, it may be sufficient to say that the Committee have no doubt as to the propriety of the action taken in this particular instance. It is recommended that the experiment be continued for the coming year, at an expense of about two hundred dollars, and it is confidently believed that no persons, who will be at the trouble of visiting the school, and hearing for themselves the gratifying manifestation of a musical taste and culture which is already apparent, can regard this money as ill spent.
And in this connection, the Committee desire to reiterate once more the often repeated appeal to the parents of school children, to show a more effectual interest in this very important matter of education, by an occasional visit to that school at least where they may happen to be sending a child. If one or other of the parents of one-half of these boys and girls would be careful to do this only once in each term, the good effects upon children, as well as teaclı- ers, would be very great.
GENERAL REMARKS.
There remain only one or two considerations of a general char- acter to complete this report. It will have been observed that the review which has been attempted is upon the whole favorable. Indeed, the aspect of school matters is really encouraging, but it is
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not yet all that is desired. It will be noticed that a sum of money larger than ever before is asked by the Committee. They desire it not certainly to spend themselves, inasmuch as a majority of the Committee yield their places to others coming fresh from the people, and entrusted with their especial confidence, but because an increased expenditure is believed to be essential to the welfare of the town. Many schools are quite bare of maps, blackboards, globes, and similar important aids to effective teaching. To drag along in these days, in order to save a small immediate outlay, without the best instruments of education, is as uneconomical as to manufacture with old-fashioned or worn-out machinery. A small sum is asked for these necessary appliances in such schools as most lack them. Again it is a very injudicious parsimony to scrimp the salaries of teachers to the very last cent at which they will not leave you. This matter ought to be entrusted to the good judg- ment of the School Committee, and some provision should be made for an emergency. If one set of Committee-men cannot be trusted to exercise a wise discretion on this as on other subjects pertaining to their office, let others who are more judicious be substituted. The intelligence of our rising generation should not be permitted to lag behind that of its neighbors for want of the best guidance. Yet it will do so if our schools are poorer than theirs, and the schools will certainly be poorer if their teachers are inferior, - not so active, not so enterprising, not so well trained, not so anxious to keep abreast of the best thought upon subjects connected with their profession. Now the best teachers cannot be had in these days for less than the best price. The superior members of this profession are speedily recognized and easily obtain the highest remuneration. Quincy now adjoins Boston, and its schools and teachers are brought into sharp and crisp contrast with those of its great neighbor. Able and ambitious teachers can readily cross the river. It is hardly consistent with a decent pride to see first- rate schools taught by teachers who have left our town to better their condition, lining the north bank of the Neponset, while second-rate schools lag along upon the south bank.
It is also recommended that a change be made in the times of vacation in the schools. A considerable number of pupils can at- tend school only in the winter term. They are obliged to follow
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other pursuits in the summer term. A glance at the tables of at- tendance will show how considerable this disparity is in some schools. The close of the winter term in February, accompanied by a recess of one week, is generally accepted by them as the signal for their departure. This short intermission effectually snaps the chain of study. They do not care to commence afresh, after an interval of idleness, a new term which must soon be broken off. Now there seems to be no very valid reason for closing the schools at that time. The season is rough and rugged, and but little adapted to out-of-door recreation or enjoyment. The space is long enough to unsettle, but not sufficient to refresh the pupils. Public opinion and common sense seem to point more and more plainly to the adoption of a simple plan which shall devote our long, cold winter to steady and unbroken exertion, and abandon the severe heats of July and August to complete relaxation. By such an arrange- ment there would be more study and more play, for the summer vacation could be longer, and a large number of meritorious pupils who now leave us in February would then stay until April. This subject is respectfully urged upon the attention of the next Com- mittee.
The detailed statement of the anticipated general expenses for the ensuing year will be found appended to this report, and a candid examination of that important paper is respectfully urged. It is believed that no material reduction in the sums there speci- fied can be made with a due regard to the best interests of the schools and the town. Having said this, the Committee feel that they have done their duty, and they cheerfully leave the matter where it belongs, in the hands of their fellow-town's-people.
EVENING SCHOOLS.
Three Evening Schools were opened October 2, 1871, in the Adams, Willard and Quincy School buildings respectively, and continued until the 23d of January last.
The school in the Adams Building contained 94 pupils, of whom 71 were males and 23 females, with an average attendance of 59. That in the Willard Building contained 54 pupils, all males, with an average attendance of 26; and that in the Quincy Building contained 53 pupils, all males, with an average attendance of 26. 2Q
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Reading, Writing, Spelling, Arithmetic, Geography and Book- keeping were taught, with very satisfactory results, in all of the schools, and a small class in the elements of Mechanical Drawing made commendable progress in the Adams School.
The Committee feel convinced that these schools are doing a very useful work, and supply a deserving class of our community, who are or have been debarred from enjoying the advantages of the day schools, with their only means of obtaining an education ; and recommend their permanent establishment as part of our school system.
TEACHERS.
The following is a list of teachers employed during the school year : -
HIGH SCHOOL.
Mr. H. A. Keith, Principal ; Miss L. Jennie Butler, succeeded by Miss Sarah L. Barnes, Assistants.
CODDINGTON SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. H. B. Brown, Principal ; Miss Carrie P. Barnes, Assistant.
Intermediate. - Miss Ida Edwards.
Primary No. 1. - Miss Lizzie E. Morse.
Primary No. 2. - Miss Julia E. Underwood.
Primary No. 3. - Miss Florence B. Howland.
ADAMS SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. Seth Dewing, Jr., Principal ; Miss Carrie L. P. Torrey, succeeded by Mr. A. H. K. Blood, Assistants.
Intermediate. - Miss Emily A. Dinegan.
Primary No. 1. - Miss Mary E. Dinegan.
Primary No. 2. - Miss Eliza C. Sheahan.
Primary No. 3. - Miss L. Annie Williams.
WILLARD SCHOOLS.
Grammar .- Mr. D. T. Bradford, succeeded by Mr. S. C. Higgins, Principal ; Miss Ella M. Walker, succeeded by Miss Thomas, Assistants.
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Intermediate. - Miss Martha A. Veazie.
Primary No. 1. - Miss Emeline A. Newcomb.
Primary No. 2. - Miss Ada E. Locke. Primary No. 3. - Miss M. A. Spear. Primary No. 4. - Miss E. F. Cole.
WASHINGTON SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. Isaac F. Hall, Principal ; Miss Amelia G. Mead, Assistant.
Intermediate. - Miss A. P. Robbins.
Primary No. 1. - Miss Elgina M. Plummer.
Primary No. 2. - Miss S. Addie Souther.
QUINCY SCHOOLS.
Grammar. - Mr. Lewis F. Hobbs.
Primary No. 1. - Miss Lizzie A. Flint. Primary No. 2. - Miss Cora I. Young.
CRANE SCHOOL.
Mixed. - Miss Phinie C. Sheldon.
WOLLASTON SCHOOLS.
Intermediate. - Miss Harriet H. Morse. Primary. - Miss Ella M. Walker.
HIGH SCHOOL APPLICANTS.
The following is a statement of the number of applicants for admission to the High School and of the number admitted. Mini- mum standard of attainments, sixty per cent. Whole number of applicants, July 24th, 1871, was 31 ; admitted, 27, as follows : -
Applied.
Admitted.
Adams Grammar School,
5
5
Coddington 66
66
6
6
Willard
66
6
4
Washington
66
66
7
7
Quincy
1
1
Crane
66
4
2
Private
66
2
2
- -
31
27
20
Supplementary Examination, held Sept 2d, 1871. Whole number of applicants, 8 ; admitted, 6, as follows : -
Applied.
Admitted.
Coddington Grammar School, 2
2
Willard 66
3
2
Washington 66 66
1
1
Quincy
66 66
1
1
Crane
66 66
1
0
-
8 6
Whole number admitted, 33.
FINANCIAL.
Appropriation by the town (teaching and
fuel),
$18,500 00
State School Fund,
407 31
Coddington Fund, 75 00
Amount appropriation (teaching and fuel),
$18,982 31
Expenses of teaching (day schools), $15,834 50
" fuel,
155 27
" teaching (evening schools), 557 00
66 " lamps, oil, and care of houses for evening schools,
165 16
Expenses of horse-hire, 13 50
Amount expended,
$16,725 43
Less than appropriations, $2,256 88
Bill for coal remains unpaid.
ESTIMATED EXPENSES OF SCHOOLS FOR THE YEAR 1872.
For salaries of teachers,
$18,500 00
" evening schools,
1,000 00
" fuel, 1,500 00
" all incidental expenses,
4,500 00
Amount,
$25,500 00
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And your Committee herewith respectfully recommend the above-named appropriations.
NEW HOUSES.
Estimated costs of land for two new school-
houses, $2,000 00
Estimated costs of two new school-houses,
30,000 00
Amount, $32,000 00
And your Committee herewith also respectfully recommend the appropriation by the town of the aforesaid sum of $32,000 for the above-named purposes.
JOHN Q. ADAMS, Chairman,
ASA WELLINGTON, Secretary,
WM. B. DUGGAN,
School Committee
H. FARNAM SMITH,
of Quincy.
HENRY LUNT,
NOAH CUMMINGS,
SCHOOL STATISTICS FOR 1871-72.
Number of children in Quincy between the ages of five and fifteen years, May 1st, 1870, as per Assess- ors' enumeration, 1,536
Number of children in Quincy between the ages of five and fifteen years, May 1st, 1871, as per Assess- ors' enumeration,
1,279
Decrease,
257
Number of schools,
27
Number of pupils in all the schools,
1,640
Increase from last year,
119
Average attendance in all the schools,
1,183
Percentage of attendance,
.72++
Number of teachers, 32
Classification of schools.
No. of teachers.
High School,
1
2
Grammar Schools,
5
9
Intermediate Schools,
5
5
Primary Schools, 15
15
Mixed,
1
1
- -
27
32
22
HIGH SCHOOL.
Number of teachers,
2
Number of pupils,
77
Increase from last year,
20
Average attendance,
55
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
Number of schools,
5
Number of teachers,
9
Number of pupils,
449
Decrease from last year,
7
Average number of pupils in each school,
89+
Total average attendance,
354
Average attendance in each school,
71
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS.
Number of schools,
5
Number of teachers,
5
Number of pupils,
232
Decrease from last year,
6
Average number of pupils in each school,
47
Total average attendance,
170
Average attendance in each school,
38
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Number of schools,
15
Number of teachers,
15
Number of pupils,
857
Increase from last year,
110
Average number of pupils in each school,
57
Total average attendance,
592
Average attendance in each school,
43
MIXED SCHOOL.
Number of schools,
1
Number of teachers,
1
Number of pupils,
25
Increase from last year,
2
Average attendance, 15
GENERAL TABLE.
Names of Schools.
Names of Teachers.
Whole Numb.r, Ist. Tem.
Average attend- ance. 1st. Term.
Whole Number, 2d. Term.
Average attend- ance, 2d. Term.
Per cent., Ist. Term.
Per cent., 2d. Term.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Mr. H. A. Keith, Principal, .. Miss L. Jennie Butler, Assistan , suc- n
54
462
70
63.3
.93
.93%
ceeded by Miss Sarah L. Barnes, ...
ADAMS SCHOOLS.
Grammar
Mr. Seth Dewing, Jr., Principal, . . .. Miss C. L. P. Torrey, Assistant, suc-
116
84
120
98
.72+
.82
Intermediate
Miss Emily A. Dinegan . .
45
38
52
45
.84
.86
Primary No. 1
Miss Mary E. Dinegan .
63
48
59
50
76
.84
Primary No. 2.
Miss Eliza C. Sheahan ..
49
40
53
44
.81
.83
Primary No. 3
Miss L. Annie Williams .
92
57
83
55
.64
.66+
CODDINGTON SCHOOLS.
Mr. H. B. Brown, Principal ...
94
83₺
108
95.3
.89
.88-+-
Intermediate
Miss Ida Edwards . .
54
46
53
42++
.80++
Primary No. 1.
Miss Lizzie E. Morse . ..
46
41
36
32
Primary No. 2.
Miss Julia E. Underwood.
64
48
48
38
.75
.79+
Primary No. 3.
Miss Florence B. Howland .
43
33
33
29
.76
.87
WILLARD SCHOOLS.
Grammar
(Mr. D. T. Bradford, Principal, succeeded ) by Mr. S. C. Higgins. . . · Miss Ella M. Walker, Assistant, suc- ceeded by Miss Thomas .
77
61
85
68++-
.79+
.80
24
Grammar .
Miss Carrie P. Barnes, Assistant ..
·
.88-1
ceeded by Mr. A. H. K. Blood.
.
Intermediate
Miss Martha A. Veazie.
59
38
63
48
.64+ .91+
.90
Primary No. 2 ..
Miss Ada E. Locke
52
48
59
53
.92
.89
Primary No. 3.
Miss M. A. Spear.
78
62
63
50
.79+
.79+
Primary No. 4.
Miss E. F. Cole
43
34
32
27
.79+
.84+
WASHINGTON SCHOOLS.
Grammar
Miss Amelia G. Mead, Assistant.
75
612
87
71+
.82
.82++
Intermediate
Miss A. P. Robbins .
44
35+
39
27+
.80
.70
Primary No. 1.
Miss Elgina M. Plummer
35
25
33
25
.71+
.76
Primary No. 2.
Miss S. Addie Souther .
67
49+
64
47++
.73
.74+
QUINCY SCHOOLS.
Grammar . .
Mr. Lewis F. Hobbs .
68
45+
52
40
.66+
.77
Primary No. 1.
Miss Lizzie A. Flint .
84
44
45
29
.52
.64
Primary No. 2.
Miss Cora I. Young .
..
. . .
42
26
...
.62
WOLLASTON SCHOOLS.
Intermediate
Miss Harriet H. Morse .
20
18
...
.90
Primary .
Miss Ella M. Walker
. . .
. ..
36
26
. ..
.72
CRANE SCHOOL.
Mixed .
Miss Phinie C. Sheldon
23
16
16
12+
.70
.76
. .
Primary No. 1.
Miss E. A. Newcomb.
57
52
54
49
.
.
Mr. I. F. Hall. Principal. .
.
...
.
.76++
25
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I 3 1641 00071 4851 THOMAS CRANE PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Date Due
6 De
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Demco 293-5
7951
Q. R. 352 Q4
Report of the school committee of the town of Quinc.1 377-78
6 De il 4140XA 05
Q.R.352 Qu4
البر البياين
تديالحجاب
احمد حسن
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