States and Territories

by their several laws entitied to instruction. All the States, either by actual count, or by estimate, report the pupils enrolled in the public school system, giving a total of 8,756,659. The following named States and Territories cannot report the average attendance in their schools, a truer measure of the educational work of the year, viz: Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, and Wisconsin, and the Indian Territory, and that of Wyoming, Washington, New Mexico, Idaho, and Dakota. Texas can only estimate this item. The States of Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, South Carolina, and Virginia, and the District of Columbia, Montana, and Utah, are able to give the school population between 6 and 16 years of age. Rhode Island gives it by estimate, and New Hampshire by the number enrolled in the public schools. It is believed that all the States and Territories, however diverse the provisions of their laws in other respects, will soon be able to draw this line and show their school population, the enrolment in public and private schools, and the average daily attendance between 6 and 16. This result obtained and taken in connection with the additional column, the average duration of schools in days, will furnish an invaluable basis for just comparisons of the work accomplished under the several systems. Only Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, and Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, and Indian Territories, are unable to report the duration of their schools. This is a most important fact in the showing of the work done under any system, and we may be assured that the determination of the friends of education to have the school business well done, will make sure of this item everywhere at an early date. The comparison between New Jersey, the highest reported, in which the average number of days taught equals 194, and North Carolina, the lowest reported, in which the average number of days taught equals only 50, is full of significance.

TABLE I.—PART 1.—Summary (B) of school age, population, enrolment, attendance, &c.

States and Territories.

TABLE I.-PART 1.-Summary (B) of school age, population, &c.-Concluded.

Having given the facts as furnished, for the purpose of aiding many inquirers, the Bureau, using the ratio of the several States that report their school population between 6 and 16 to the whole school population of those several States and other data, has inserted here the estimates for the several States and Territories of the school population between 6 and 16. These figures will not only aid the investigation mentioned, but serve to illustrate the importance of this line of comparison. These extended generalizations bring out with great clearness the importance of including all facts not only in public schools, but in connection with all other instruction afforded.

TABLE I.-PART 1.-Summary (C) of the number of teachers employed in the public schools, and the average salary of teachers per month, in the respective States and Territories.

States and Territories.

TABLE I.-PART I.-Summary (C) of teachers in the public schools, &c.-Concluded.

The State of Georgia, and the Indian Territory, and Idaho are unable to report the number of teachers employed in public schools. Texas gives only an estimate. All the other States and Territories except Delaware, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, and the Territory of Washington, are able to report both the number of men and women teachers in their public schools. The total number of teachers reported in the public schools is 249,262. But, large as this number is, it is 100,000 short of the number required to teach the entire school population reported, allowing 40 scholars on the average to the teacher. No figures are more indicative of woman's triumph in spheres outside of the family. It will be noticed that in the Southern States more men are employed than women; that in the Northern Central States, the number of women is greater than the number of men, while the excess of women teachers is much the greatest in New England, especially in Massachusetts, where some are already beginning to think the interests of education have suffered by the too exclusive surrender of the work of instruction to one sex. In Massachusetts it will be noticed that there are 1,169 men and 8,047 women teachers. It will be observed that some of the States, Alabama, Delaware, Kentucky, Nevada, and Texas, report the payment of the same salaries for the same work to men and women teachers. Statement showing monthly compensation of teachers in public schools.

States and Terri

tories.

The fact that the District of Columbia gives the highest average in the preceding table, is due to the limited number of country schools; the teachers are nearly all in city schools, and, therefore, their compensation should be brought into comparison with that paid in other cities.

TABLE I.-PART 2.-Summary (A) of annual income and expenditure, &c.

Total

87, 527, 278 14, 584, 260 817, 986 46, 346, 004 11, 861, 709 80, 950, 333 171, 669, 284

a Items not all reported.

d Includes repairs in part.

h In 1873.

e Sites and buildings only. f Includes debts. g Estimated.

i $16,784 was expended for evening schools, (not included.)

k Includes $14,918 from sources not reported. Includes $14,229 from sources not reported.

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