IN SCHOOL COMMITTEE, BOSTON, Dec. 10, 1889.

Ordered, That four thousand copies of the report of the Committee on the Annual School Report of 1889 be printed.

Attest:

PHINEAS BATES,

Secretary.

REPORT.

The committee appointed to prepare the annual report of the School Committee for the year 1889 respectfully submit the following report.

STATISTICS.

For the purpose of comparison the following statistics are given, showing the number of schools of various grades, the number of teachers employed, and the number of pupils attending for the past

year:

Number of persons in the city between five and fifteen years of age, May 1, 1889

71,998

Whole number of different pupils registered in the public schools during the year ending June 30, 1889:

1 There is a manual training school, and five schools of cookery, but as the pupils of the regular public schools attend them, they are not included in these tables.

The financial year of the School Board, like that of all the city departments, ends May 1. It has been customary in the annual reports of the Board to present the statement of expenditures for the year ending the first of the preceding May.

From a perusal of the last reports of the Committee on Accounts and the Committee on Supplies, the financial committees of the Board, it is safe to assert that the Board need fear no just criticism upon its management of the appropriations intrusted to them.

The following table shows the expenditures made by the School Committee, the number of pupils, and