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Show SCHOOL EXPENSES LOWEST IN STATE A report recently compiled by the state superintendent of public pub-lic instruction, relative to the per capita cost of educating each child in the forty districts o: the state shows the Washington Washing-ton county district very near the bottom of the list. The school population of the stste on October 1. l?31 was 147. 2?2; Washington county. 241S; ranking cf county. 2S;h. Based on average daily attendance attend-ance for the school year lflSO-Sl, lflSO-Sl, Washington ranked SSth lowest in cost in the forty districts dis-tricts in per capita cost for instruction in-struction which included teachers' teach-ers' salaries and the expenses of supplies, text books, etc. This cost was $35.72 while the average for the state for this item is ?52.GS. In total operating expenses which includes coordinate maintenance main-tenance of school plant and fixed fix-ed charges. Washington county district ranks thirty-ninth lowest. low-est. The per capita cost in this county is $4S.1S while the average aver-age of the state is $71. G3. The total of the above, plus capital outlay and debt service gives Washington county a rank of thirty-ninth. The amount per capita based on average daily attendance is 500.27 in Washington county, and $101.02 average for the state. Based on school population, popu-lation, Washington county district dist-rict per capita cost for 1930-31 1930-31 was $52.99 while the state average was $S5.S7, Washington Washing-ton district ranking thirty-sixth lowest. |
