Download or read book Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, 1890 (Classic Reprint) written by Boston City School Committee and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, 1890 The committee appointed to prepare the annual report of the School Committee for the year 1890 respectfully submit the following report: - School System. The public-school system of the city of Boston comprises one Normal School, two Latin Schools, eight High Schools, fifty-five Grammar Schools, four hundred and seventy-six Primary Schools, twenty-five Kindergartens, one School for the Deaf, seventeen Evening Schools, five Evening Drawing Schools, one School on Spectacle Island, one Manual Training School, and six Schools of Cookery. Statistics. It has been the custom to give in the annual reports, for the purpose of comparison, statistics showing the number of schools of various grades, the number of teachers employed, and the number of pupils attending the schools. These statistics for the past year are as follows: - Number of persons in the city between five and fifteen years of age, May 1, 1890 ... 72,041 Whole number of different pupils registered in the public schools during the year ending June 30, 1890: - Boys ... 36,114 Girls ... 32,684 Total ... 68,798 Regular Schools. Normal School. - Number of teachers ... 8 Average number of pupils belonging ... 150 Average attendance ... 143 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.