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Show PROVO DISTRICT SCHOOLS. Exhaustive Summary of the Report, as Completed by E. A. Wilson, City Supt. of Schools. The report just completed by E. A. Wi'son, of the Provo City School I.)w-; tnct, iu the county of Utah, V. T., 1, r the school year ending June od, l.SPl , ! siiows as follows : ! Number of schools Primary, ,"; in- j termediate, 4; mixed, 2; graduated, 2; making a total of 13. Number of teachers employed, 10; ten of whom were females and il males. : One of the latter is non-Mormon. Number of cbildien in the district j between the ages of 6 and IS, of non-, Mormon parentage Boys, iuj; girl.-. Ill ; making a total of 07. Number of children in the district between the ages ot H and 13, of Mormon Mor-mon parentage Bovs, 0o2; girls, tilS; making a total of 1,280. Of this mini J her there was a total number enrolled only 43 per cent, of the children of non-1 Mormon parentage, and so per cent, of I the children of Mormon parentage. The average daily at endance of the , children of non-Mortnfiu parentage was thirty-three, of the children of Mormon i parentage, live hundred and tifiy-tw o. ! The percentage of the school popuia- i tion actually attending school was.ehii- ! dren of non-Mormon parentage forty-' three percent.; of Mormon parentage, eighty per cent. j Schools have been taught four full I terms including one hundred and nine-' ly-lour days that scfiooL have been ac- ' tuaily in session. i There were four boys and one giri j enrobed under the age of six years, all i of Mormon parentage. Thirteen boys and inne girls over the age ot eighteen; vears w ere enrolled, all of Mormon pa- j rentage. ; The non-Mormon teacher was pad; forty dollais per mouth, f he avera-e j , monthly pay for t e balance of the' male teachers Was ei-htv-oae doilai- j and of the female teiichei's, f-i ty d-d-i lars. There w as paid to teachers by I tha trustees during the vear in cash ii j total if 83,712.00, this being the total: compensation, all sources, making an I -iveiage monthlv compensation oi $671.2-5. ' j There were 1044 pupils taught the j branch of reading; 1044, writing; 1.'44, ! spelling; 780, language lessons: 412.; Lngli-h grain mar; -567, geography: 5o7. ' U N. history; 1041. arithmetic; 1011. physiology and hygiene; ol). composi-j tion; fj(lO,drawing; 132, elocution ; M7, , music; 114, natural philosophy : 2, alge- j bra; 8. book-keeping; 5.J.S, object lessons; les-sons; 78!). physical culture; 04S. morals j and manners. j The grounds of the schools are valued j at $10,126.50; buildings, at 542,218.12; j furniture, at $4,065.58: apparatus, at; STG9.80, making a total valuation of i 137,18000. : |