The moiety due cities and towns for income of 1875, and payable January 25, 1876, is, Balance, JANUARY 18, 1876. 83,827 85 $4,585 63 Respectfully submitted, JOSEPH WHITE, Sec. Board of Education, Commissioners. HIGH SCHOOLS. As the obligations of the towns of the Commonwealth to maintain High Schools is determined by the number of families, or of inhabitants, at the date of the latest census, whether state or national, I present herewith the names of the cities and towns having the requisite number, as appears by the state census of 1875. Those appearing for the first time to have the requisite number of families are printed in italics. The number of such is twenty-five. Inasmuch as the United States census of 1870 did not give the number of families in the several townships, the changes indicated are those which have taken place since the state census of 1865. During this period, many changes have taken place in respect to the boundary of cities and towns, which have affected the results noted. For instance: five cities and towns have been annexed to Boston, each of which was required to maintain a High School. On the other hand, several towns have been created by the division of other towns, or by the uniting of small portions of old towns, and in the towns thus created High Schools are maintained. The remaining additions are the result of the growth of population in the old towns. TOWNS. Towns having Five Hundred Families and over-Concluded. No. of Families. Population. TOWNS. No. of Families. Population. From this statement, it appears that there are one hundred and fifty-one towns having over five hundred families each, and therefore required to maintain a High School. Of this number, six have failed to comply with the law last year; to wit, Har wich, Swampscott, Wilbraham, South Hadley, Warren, and West Boylston. In its remaining one hundred and forty-five cities and towns, one hundred and sixty-two High Schools were kept-eight of them in Boston-for not less than nine months each, excepting only that in Townsend, which was three months and five days. In addition to the above, the returns show that forty High Schools were kept in thirty-eight towns not required by law to maintain them. The following table gives the names of the towns arranged by counties, with the number of High Schools in each, the length expressed in months and days :— |
