High And Graded

Districts Draw 2,030. 2,114 In Ungraded Districts.

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EFFICIENT STAFF OF

TEACHERS IN COUNTY

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Many New Instructors Will Take Up Their

Work This Fall.

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Brown County schools had a total enrollment of 4,144 pupils during the school year of 1924-5, according to the report submitted to the State Department of Education by Supt. R. B. Kennedy. There were more students enrolled in the rural district than in the high and graded schools, their rural enrollment being 2,114 and the other 2,030. Of this enrollment, 1,968 pupils attended a sufficient number of days in the rural schools to draw state apportionment funds for their districts and 1,874 in the high and graded districts drew apportionment.

School Census Shows 4,144

The school census of the county included the names of 2,030 students in high and graded districts, consisting of 1,036 girls and 994 boys. The total of 2114 children in the ungraded districts who are of school age numbered 1,012 girls and 1102 boys.

Students in the county between the ages of five and eight years numbered 984. Of this number 416 are in the graded districts and 568 are enrolled in ungraded districts. There are 2,703 children between the ages of eight and sixteen years, 1,180 in graded districts and 1,523 in the rural schools. Of the 447 students in the county between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years, 424 live in high and graded districts and 23 in the ungraded districts. Only ten students under five and over twenty-one years of age are enrolled in the county, all of whom reside in the high and graded districts.

According to the report of the Superintendent, the average attendance in the high and graded districts was 1,713 and in the ungraded schools it was 1,530.

Grade Enrollment

The girls enrolled in the first grade numbered 317 and the boys 368, the total number of first grade pupils being 685. The graded schools got 284 of these little new school people while the rural school started 461 of them on their weary way to wisdom.

In the second grade 231 boys and 193 girl were enrolled,166 in the grade schools and 258 in the ungraded schools. In the third grades there were 210 boys and 199 girls. The graded schools started 284 of the little people on the weary way to wisdom and the country school guided the steps of 401 of the first graders. Of the 424 second graders, 231 were boys and 198 were girls. The graded schools got 166 of them and the rural schools 258. The third graders were 409 in number, 210 boys, 199 girls. Of these 156 were town school pupils and 253 were country boys and girls. The big fourth graders numbered 426, there being just 20 more girls than boys in this grade. Here also the rural schools got the greater number of the little folks, 251 to 175 town school children. The size of the grades diminishes steadily, there being only 395 fifth graders, 203 boys, 192 girls and the graded schools enrolled 99 less in this grade than did the rural schools.

In the sixth grade, 183 boys and 181girls were found, 218 of them being in the country schools. The seventh grade shows a somewhat larger number enrolled, 392,205 of them being boys. The graded schools took care of 152 of these seventh graders. The total drops again in the eighth grade there being 364 divided equally between the two sexes. There were 230 eighth graders in the country schools.

Above the eighth grade the conditions were reversed and very few pupils in the rural schools do advanced work, only 16 in fact last year. In these grades the girls lead the boys in number, there being 377 of them to 308 boys.

Corps of Teachers

The report shows that there were 167 instructors employed in the public schools of the county last year. Of this number 143 were women and 24 were men. The average wage was $157. per month, women averaging $139 and men $229. There were seven men teachers and 72 women teachers in the single room and semi-graded districts. Their average wage was $94, women being paid very nearly as much as men. A high standard of training was found among the teachers employed. Nearly all were graduates of a training school or college. Forty-eight teachers had taught in the same school as long as three years, forty-three had taught two years and seventy-six were teaching their first year.

The school census shows that there were 1,024 children in New Ulm in New Ulm between the ages of 8 and 16years, 505 boys and 519 girls. The enrollment in the public schools totaled 757 and of these 53 were not entitled to draw apportionment for their district. The other 704 pupils attended a sufficient number of days to draw state apportionment. There are more school children that the number above shown in this city but the parochial schools draw a large number of pupils away from the public schools.

Students between the ages of five and eight years numbered 180; from eight to 16 years, 418; and seventeen to twenty-one, 159. The average daily attendance in the New Ulm schools for the past year was 648.

When school starts here Monday, Aug. 31, there will be many new teachers on the staff as well as a new superintendent.

New Ulm Review,

Aug. 12, 1925