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3. Attending high schools, or in "advanced grades" 4. Attending grammar schools

3,243

16,177

5. Attending intermediate on second grade school.. 6. Attending primary or third grade schools

30,820

79,532

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5. Number of graduates of the California State Normal School now teaching

292

421

615

210

1,538

240

SALARIES.

Average monthly salary paid men..

Average monthly salary paid women

Average annual salary paid men.

Average annual salary paid women

Annual cost per scholar in average daily attendance
Annual cost of tuition per scholar in average daily attend-

ance....

$84 93

68 00

672 00

543 00

28 67

21 59

FINANCIAL.

RECEIPTS.

Balance on hand at the beginning of the school year

$387,761 11

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Amount paid for rent, repairs, fuel, and contingent

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Amount paid for sites, buildings, and school furni

ture

421,279 36

Total expenditures of all kinds

$2,658,241 34

VALUATION OF SCHOOL PROPERTY.

Valuation of sites, school houses, and furniture.... $4,879,328 39

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VII. RESUME OF THE CONDITION OF THE SCHOOLS.

1. BUILDINGS.—In general, the school houses are comfortable, are furnished with modern styles of desks, and fairly supplied with maps, charts, and simple school apparatus.

2. LENGTH OF SCHOOL.-The average length of school is 7 months in the year, an average exceeded by only two or three States in the Union. There were only 34 schools in which the length of term was less than 6 months. In nearly 800 districts the length of term exceeded 8 months. The provision in making the county apportionment by which the minimum amount for each school, however small, is $500, has extended the means of education to the most remote settlements.

3. TEACHERS. Of the 2800 teachers, 240, or nearly one tenth, are graduates of the California State Normal School. There are 292 holders of life diplomas; that is, about one tenth, who may be ranked as "professionals." There are about 400 holders of educational diplomas who have had at least 5 years' experience. In all, about one third of the teachers may be considered skilled in their profession, the remaining two thirds being mainly made up of "raw recruits."

4. INSTRUCTION.-There is a good course of study laid out by the State Board of Education; but, of course, this is carried out in the country districts to a very limited extent only. In a majority of the schools, the teaching consists of text-book recitations, with little or no instruction by the teacher.

5. LIBRARIES.—Each school is supplied with a small library, purchased by an annual appropriation of 10 per cent. of the State appropriation, not to exceed $50 yearly. The amount expended last year was about $50,000.

The libraries constitute one of the best features of the system.

6. SECULAR INSTRUCTION.-With a few unimportant exceptions, the schools are purely secular. The provisions of the State law are generally interpreted to exclude the reading of the Bible and prayer. In the State University, in the schools of

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