The following tables are compiled from the returns which the law requires School Visitors to make to the Board of Education. By way of explanation it may be said : 1. The Grand List of each town is taken from the Comptroller's report to the General Assembly, January, 1887. 2. The per cent. of taxable property appropriated for public schools is based upon the total amount received for school purposes diminished by the amounts received from school fund, etc., town deposit fund, and local funds. 3. The amount paid for each enumerated scholar is found by dividing the total amount expended, less amount paid for new buildings, by number enumerated. 4. As has been the custom for a number of years past, the number "registered in Winter" is found by combining the number returned for Fall and Winter terms, taking the highest number found in either. 5. The "average attendance in Winter" is found in the same manner. 6. The number between 8 and 14 in no school, indicates the number which escaped the operation of the compulsory law, in the year ending January 1st, 1887. 7. The "per cent. who have attended some part of the year" compares the "different scholars" with the "enumeration." The large per cents., attained by some small towns, are explained by the attendance of scholars not enurnerated. 8. Regularity of attendance and efficiency in this direction are indicated by the " per cent. of attendance on basis of registration." 9. The "per cent. of attendance on basis of enumeration" is found by dividing the average attendance for the year by the enumeration. 10. The number who “attended Normal School” is not complete. 11. By "schools" is intended the number of public schools in each town, and 12. By "departments" the number of departments in the public schools, counting each room of a graded school as one department. 13. The Public Libraries mentioned are not all free libraries. 14. The indebtedness incurred on account of schools is probably much larger than the amount reported. In towns where the districts have been consolidated and in some other towns it is made a part of the general indebtedness of the town and is not separately reported to this office. 15. Interest upon school district indebtedness, and expenditures of money for rent of school buildings are included in the sums used in computing the cost per scholar upon basis of enumeration and also upon basis of average attendance. |