Whole number of summer schools in 1873.. ...... Increase for the year... Aggregate length of summer schools in months in 1873..... Whole number of male teachers in 1873.. Increase for the year.... Whole number of female teachers in 1873..... Whole number of female teachers in 1874..... Increase for the year... Average wages of male teachers per month in the winter 2,568 2,718 145 7,961 8,438 477 1,639 1,834 195 3,567 3,648 81 schools in 1873...... $36 90 Average wages of male teachers per month in the winter schools in 1874... ...... 41 36 Increase for the year.... 4 46 Average wages of female teachers per month in the winter schools in 1873......... $29 04 Average wages of female teachers per month in the winter schools in 1874..... 30 52 Increase for the year.......... 148 Average wages of male teachers per month in the summer schools in 1873.......... $38 78 Average wages of male teachers per month in the summer schools in 1874..... 41 57 Increase for the year..... 2 79 Average wages of female teachers per month in the summer schools in 1873....... $25 40 Average wages of female teachers per month in the summer schools in 1874........... 27 30 Increase for the year... 1 90 Whole amount paid as teachers' wages in 1873 ... $568,937 10 Whole amount paid as teachers' wages in 1874........... 678,606 06 Increase for the year.......... 110,668 96 Whole number of school houses in the State in 1873...... 2,568 2,758 Increase for the year.. 190 Value of the school houses Value of the school houses Increase for the year. Whole number of school Whole number of scnool Increase for the year Whole amount received fr Whole amount received fr Increase for the year.. Amount apportioned from c. Amount apportioned from c Increase for the year.... Whole amount received from Whole amount received from t Increase for the year...... Whole amount expended for sch Whole amount expended for scho Increase for the year........ Whole amouut in school district tr Orders and bonds unpaid at the cl Sept. 30, 1874...... SCHOOL DISTRICT The reported number of distri the independ ent districts and tE was: In 1873, In 1874, Increase, This increase is chiefly owing to tE counties in the sparsely settled sections quired by the increasing population. The number of school houses, and their classification according to the material of which they are constructed, are as Their number and classification, as reported for the years 1864 and 1874, are as follows: The increase in the number of brick and frame school houses, does not represent the full number of new buildings that have been erected within the period named, for many have been constructed in place of old ones of similar materials. The improvements, which have been made in providing suitable houses and sites, are better indicated by their reported value, as compared with preceding years, and the sums expended each year for these kindred purposes, as stated in the table which follows. The value of all school houses and sites in 1864, when it was first reported, and in each of the succeeding years, was as follows: The average vali those in the cities, is SCHOL The whole number o 21 years, as reported, The number who attended th portion of the school year, was 12 The whole number in attendance years was as follows: The largely increased attendance of pupils upon the public schools which has hitherto marked the years following each other, has been substantially maintained during the last year. The number of pupils instructed in the several common schools, normal schools, academies, colleges, private and parochial schobls, during the year, was as follows: Table XV. shows the teachers examined and licensed : The number of school terms for the last school year is shown in Table III. It will be seen that there were 2,769 winter schools, or an increase of 131 over those of 1873; that the aggregate number of months taught was 9,830, or an increase of 650 months over the aggregate of 1873; and that their average length in months was 3.55. In 1873 it was 3.48. In 1872 it was 3.50. In 1871 it was 3.45. Winter schools were taught in all the counties making returns, except in Grant, Lincoln and Wilkin. |