4,144 PUPILS ARE IN BROWN COUNTY

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2,030 of These in High

and Graded Districts.

— 2,114 in Ungraded

Rural Districts.

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167 TEACHERS

EMPLOYED IN

COUNTY SCHOOLS

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Average Monthly Wages Paid for Instructing

Youth of County Is $127.

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According to Superintendent R. B. Kennedy’s annual report, which he will submit to the state department of education, there were 4,144 pupils enrolled in the public schools of the county during the school year, which will end July 31. Of this number 2,030 were enrolled in the high and graded districts and 2,114 in ungraded elementary rural districts. In the high and graded schools 1,874 pupils are entitled to apportionment and in the rural districts the number is 1,968. Students not entitled to apportionment in high and graded schools number 156 and in rural districts there are 146.

School Census.

According to the superintendent’s report there were a total of 2,030 children included in the school census in high and graded school districts of the county. This included 999 males and 1,031 females. In the ungraded districts there were 2,000 children of a school age. The males numbered 1,031 and the females 969. The total in the county is 4,030.

Students According to Ages.

There are 984 students in the county between the ages of five and eight years; 416 of these are in graded school districts and 568 in ungraded districts. The number between the ages of eight and sixteen years in graded districts is 1,180 and in ungraded districts, 1,523. The total is 2,703. There are 447 pupils in the county between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years, of which 424 reside in high and graded school districts and 23 in ungraded districts. The total number under 5 and over 21 years of age enrolled in the county is 10. All are in the high and graded districts.

The report states that the average daily attendance in the high and graded schools of the county is 1,713, while in the ungraded schools the number is 1,530.

Enrollment by Grades.

There were a total of 685 children attended school in the public schools in the first grade during the past year. Of this number 368 were boys and 317were girls. The total children in the first grade in the high and graded elementary schools was 284; ungraded elementary schools, 401. Second grade total, 424; boys, 231; girls,193; high and graded schools, 166; ungraded, 258. Third grade total, 409; boys, 210; girls, 199; high and graded schools, 156; ungraded, 253. Fourth grade, total, 426; boys, 203; girls, 223; high and graded schools, 175; ungraded, 251. Fifth grade total, 395; boys, 203; girls, 192; high and graded,148; ungraded, 247. Sixth grade total, 364 boys, 181; girls, 183; high and graded,146; ungraded, 218. Seventh grade total, 392; boys, 205; girls,187; high and graded,152; ungraded, 240. Eighth grade total, 364; boys, 181; girls, 183; high and graded, 134; ungraded, 230. Beyond eighth grade total, 685; boys,308; girls, 377; high and graded, 669; ungraded, 16.

Number of Teachers.

There were 167 teachers employed in all the public schools of the county during the past school year. Of this number 24 were males and 143 females. Seventeen males and seventy-one female teachers were employed in the high and graded schools the past year, making a total of eighty-eight. The average monthly wages of the males was $229 and of the females $139, making a total average monthly wage of $157. In the rural and semi-graded schools there were seven male and seventy-two female teachers employed. The average salary of the males was $95 and of the females, $93, making a total average monthly wage of $93.

Nearly all the teachers employed in the county during the past year are graduates of a college or a teachers training school. The report shows a high grade of teachers both in the high and graded as well as the rural and semi-graded districts. Forty-eight of the full number have taught in the same school three years; forty-three have taught two years in the same position and seventy-six have taught in the same school one year.

Statistics for Local Schools.

In the Independent School District of New Ulm, according to the school census, there are 1,024 children between the ages of 8 to 16 years. There are 505 boys and 519 girls. The enrollment of the city schools was 368 boys and 389 girls, or a total of 757. This shows that a large number attended the parochial schools. According to the report there were 704 entitled and 53 not entitled to apportionment.

Students between the ages of five and eight years were 180; eight to sixteen, 418, and sixteen to twenty-one, 159. The average daily attendance during the past year was 648. During the past school year there were thirty-six teachers employed in the city schools, of which five were males and thirty-one females. The average monthly wages of the males was $245 and the females, $147. Twenty-one of these teachers graduated from a two years’ teachers college course; twelve from some college. Twenty-one of the local teachers have taught in the local schools three years or more, six, two years, and nine, one year.

Brown County Journal,