SUPERINTENDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT.

To the Board of Education:

GENTLEMEN-I have the honor to submit for your consideration this, my Sixth Annual Report of the condition and progress of the Cincinnati Public Schools:

Population of the city according to the U. S. census of 1870..................216,239

Number of District Schools...........

Number of Intermediate Schools.....

Number of High Schools.........

Total

School-houses in use.........

Number of school-rooms in use.........

Number of school-rooms not in use....

Total

Whole number of pupils registered in the District Schools...........

26

4

2

32

36

471

35

506

...22,538

4,176

862

99

27,675

Total

Number of pupils registered more than once...

Number of different pupils registered........

The following table shows the per cent. of pupils enrolled in the schools at the different ages:

At 6 years of age 17.6 per cent. of whole number enrolled.

At 15 years of age 2.4 per cent. of whole number enrolled.

It will be seen from the above that just seventy-five per cent. of all the pupils were, on entering school, under twelve years of age, and that less than nine per cent. were above fourteen years.

The following exhibit shows what per cent. the number of pupils enrolled in the several grades of the District and Intermediate Schools was of the whole number enrolled in those schools for each of the school years 1871-72 and 1872-73:

The number of pupils enrolled in the Normal and High Schools was 3.5 per cent. of the number enrolled in all the schools. The year before it was 3.2 per cent.

The number of pupils withdrawn from the schools during the year

Per cent. of pupils withdrawn on whole number enrolled in the several schools:

This shows a falling off in the per cent. of withdrawals from the year 1871-72 of 1.6.

The per cent. of withdrawals of pupils from all the schools at the dif

ferent ages, estimated on the number enrolled at these ages, for the years 1871-72 and 1872-73, was as follows:

Number of pupils remaining in the schools at the close of the year:

District Schools.........

Intermediate Schools........

High Schools.....

Normal School.

Total......

Per cent. of the whole number of different pupils enrolled..

The average number of pupils belonging in the District Schools was......17.290.4

In the Intermediate Schools......

In the High Schools..........

In the Normal School...............

Total........

The average number of pupils in daily attendance was :

In the District Schools........

In the Intermediate Schools...........

In the High Schools......

In the Normal School.......

Total........

The average absence was :

In the District Schools..................

In the Intermediate Schools...........
In the High Schools..........

In the Normal School............

Total....

The per cent. of the average daily attendance on the whole number of different pupils enrolled was.......

A gain over the previous year of..................... ..........

..........76.9

1.2

The per cent. of average daily attendance on the average number belonging for the years 1871-72 and 1872-73 was:

The average number of pupils enrolled to the teacher, excluding special

These averages are almost identical with those of the previous year.

The number of pupils enrolled in comparison with the previous year

It will be seen from the last three tables that while the increase in the enrollment of pupils was very small, there was a flattering increase in the number in daily attendance, denoting a healthy condition of the schools.

The average number of teachers in all the day schools, including special teachers, was 513, being an increase of three over the previous year. The number of reported cases of tardiness in the schools was 55,132, 8,640 less than the number for the year 1871-72.

COST OF TUITION.

The whole sum paid for tuition in the day schools (exclusive of $800 paid for instruction in the Normal Institute, and $1,614.93 paid for the tuition of city pupils in schools outside the corporation) was $408,898.74. The sum paid for tuition in the night schools was $11,326.62. Total, $420,225.36.

The decrease in the amount paid teachers in the day schools, compared with the year 1871-72, was $1,356.61; but in the night schools there was an increased expenditure of $1,868.79, giving a total increase for tuition of $512.18.

Below is shown the cost of tuition per pupil for the last five estimated on the number enrolled:

years,

The amount paid for special instruction in music, drawing, penmanship, and gymnastics was $21,150 25, or a little less than one-nineteenth of the cost of instruction in all the branches.

It will be seen that the increased cost per pupil in the District Schools over the cost of 1871-72 was 14 cents. There was, however, a decrease in cost per pupil in the Intermediate Schools of 85 cents, in the High Schools of 55 cents, and in all the schools of 62 cents.