We have examined the above financial statement and certify the same to be correct. E. C. ROSS, JOHN SMITH, CALEB H. BAUMES, Committee on Finance. Statistical. Estimated population of the City, 25,000. Number of sittings, 3,720. The number of duly licensed teachers employed and teaching at the same time, for 160 days or more, during the school year commencing August 1, 1901, and closing July 31, 1902, was 102. The number of children over 5 and under 18 years of age, residing in the city on the 30th day of June, 1902, was: Boys, 2,788; girls, 2,887; total, 5,675. The number of private schools within the city (not including colleges, incorporated academies or seminaries, was 8. The number of pupils over 5 and under 18 years of age registered as having attended such private schools some portion of the school year commencing August 1, 1901, and closing July 31, 1902, was: Boys, 454; girls, 578; total, 1,032. The whole time the public schools were taught within the school year commencing August 1, 1901, and closing July 31, 1902, including legal holidays, was 198 days. Of the teachers employed during any portion of the said year, the number holding State Certificates were I; Normal School Diplomas, 48; Training Class Certificates, 2; Licensed by Local Authorities, 52. The number of licensed teachers who were employed in teaching during any portion of said school year was 9 male and 98 females; total, 107. Number of children under 5 years of age in private kindergartens, 71. The whole number of children of school age who attended the public schools some portion of the year commencing August 1,1901, and closing July 31, 1902, was: Boys, 2.080; girls, 2,031; total. 4, III. Of which there was in the High School-boys, 152; girls, 163; total, 315; Grammar School-boys, 376; girls, 385; total, 761. Primary School-boys, 1,552; girls, 1,483; total, 3,035. The average daily attendance of children of school age was: High School, boys, 131-4; girls, 147-6; total, 279; Grammar School, boys, 314; girls, 329; total, 643; Primary School, boys, 1,124; girls, 1,066; total, 2,190. The whole number of days of attendance at the public schools of all the children of school age, attending said schools was, boys, 301,402; girls, 296,198; total, 597,600. Number of children over 8 and under 14 years of age residing in the city June 30, 1902, was 2,665. Number of such children registered as attending the public schools was 2,361. 718. Number of such children receiving instruction elsewhere was Number of children over 14 and under 16 years of age residing in the city was 847. Number of such children attending the public schools during the year was 383. 103. 255. Number of such children receiving instruction elsewhere was Total number of cases investigated by attendance officer, 1,376. Number of children found to be trunts and returned to school, Number of children committed to truant school, 12. Number of volumes in Public School Libraries, 28,337. |