Balance of appropriation for the year 1897.... $139 09 Amount of appropriation for the year 1898-9..... 3,286 01 4 61 Balance cash on hand, special deposit of free book fund.. 200 00 834 26 Total.... $3,429 71 WASHINGTON COUNTY. SUMMARY OF SCHOOL STATISTICS FOR SCHOOL YEAR ENDING JULY 31, 1899. Number of school houses owned by the county, 128; rented, 12; total......... Frame, 56; Brick, 66; log, 9; stone, 9...... Number of rooms occupied when attendance is largest........ Number of male teachers (principals), white, 84; colored, 5; total.......... Number of female teachers (principals), white, ;43 colored, 5; total ....... Number of male teachers (assistants), white, 14; colored, 1; total......... Number of female teachers (assistants), white, 77; colored, I; total.......... Total, white, 218; colored, 12.. Number of fenced lots......... Number of schools having out-buildings......... Number of schools having sufficient blackboards.. Number of terms schools were open-white 3; colored, 3... Number of different pupils for the year-males-white, 4,511; colored, 234; total, 4,745-females-white, 4,201; colored, 216; total, 4,416; total.......... Number of pupils in average attendance-white, 5,794; colored, 267; total.... 6,061 Number of pupils over 16 years of age—while, 381; colored, 32; total.......... Number of official school visits paid by examiner.... 353 298 Number of pupils in book-keeping, 338; algebra, 999; physiology, 1,806; geometry, 505; philosophy, 258; drawing, 5,560; Latin, 340; literature, 751; chemistry, 14; trigonometry, 14; rhetoric, 14. SCHOOL HOUSES BUILT OR ENLARGED DURING the Year. Length. I 4 Brick. 3 4 Frame. 712 Frame. 414 Brick. $3437 25 60% 34% 1215 Frame. 217 Brick. 1363 77 361/2 24/2 756 24 361⁄2 241⁄2 |