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FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

SECRETARY OF THE BOARD.

SECRETARY'S REPORT.

To the Board of Education.

I RESPECTFULLY present here with the Forty-fifth Annual Report of the Secretary.

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS FOR 1880-81.

Number of cities and towns: cities, 21; towns, 325.
All have made the annual returns required by law.

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shown by the tables arises from a change in the basis upon which some of the returns were made.

Number of persons in the State between the ages of 5 and 15 years, May 1, 1880

312,680

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Increase for the year.

5,359

Number of pupils of all ages in all the public schools during

the year

325,239

Increase for the year

8,462

Average membership of pupils in all the public schools for

the year

262,031

Increase for the year

784

Average attendance in all the public schools during the year.
Decrease for the year

233,108

19

Per cent of attendance, based upon the average membership. Number of children under 5 years of age attending the public schools

⚫89

1,685

Decrease of

148

Number of persons over 15 years of age attending the public schools

24,344

Decrease for the year

676

Number of towns which report having made the provisions concerning truants required by law

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Number of persons employed as teachers in the public schools during the year: males, 1,134; females, 7,727; total .

8,861

Number of teachers required by the public schools

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Number of teachers who have attended normal schools
Number of teachers who have graduated from normal schools,
Average wages of male teachers per month in the public
schools

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Increase

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7,155

2,236

1,931

$85.54

$18.00

Average wages of female teachers per month in the public schools

Increase

$38.49

$7.90

Aggregate of months all the public schools have been kept during the school-year

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By an error in the returns this aggregate appears in the tables to be 50,633 months 6 days.

Average number of months the public schools have been kept

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NOTE. In tables this appears as 8 months and 9 days.

Number of high schools.

Number of teachers in high schools

Number of pupils in high schools

Amount of salaries paid to principals of high schools
Evening schools: Number, 97, kept in 29 cities and towns.
Number of teachers, 408. Whole number of pupils, 10,294:
males, 7,852; females, 2,442. Average attendance, 4,765.
Number of evenings, 1,659. Expense

Amount raised by taxation for support of public schools, in-
cluding only wages of teachers, fuel, care of fires and school-

rooms

Expense of supervision of public schools

53,506.6

8.18

215

595

18,900

$262,867.14

63,589.00

4,130,714.11

Increase for the year

$68,151.37

159,313-79

Salaries of superintendents (included in the above)
Expense of preparing and printing school reports

62,492-22

12,450.45

Expenses for sundries, books, stationery, maps, globes, etc.
Amount expended in 1880-81 for erecting schoolhouses.
Amount expended for alterations and permanent improvements
in schoolhouses

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Amount expended for ordinary repairs of schoolhouses
Amount of voluntary contributions for public schools
Amount of local school-funds the income of which can be ap-
propriated only for the support of schools and academies
Income of local funds appropriated to schools and academies .
Income of funds appropriated for public schools at the option
of the towns, as surplus revenue, tax on dogs, etc.
Income of State school-fund paid to cities and towns in aid of
public schools for the school-year 1880-81 .
Of this amount there was appropriated for apparatus and
books of reference

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Aggregate returned as expended on public schools alone, ex

clusive of expense of repairing and erecting schoolhouses. 4,851,566.55

121,534.16

5,279.63

2,161,503.46

110,327.63

183,072-36

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