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"The plan adopted by the board, of dismissing the schools at stated intervals to permit the teachers of the lower grades to take special lessons in drawing and phonic reading, has, it is believed, sufficiently prepared those teachers to instruct in the elements of both sucessfully."

REPORT OF THE CITY SUPERINTENDENT OF CINCINNATI.

The annual report of the city superintendent, the Hon. John Hancock, gives full statistical information regarding the schools, from which the following is extracted: Estimated population of the city..

225,000

Number of white youth in city, between five and twenty-one years of age.
Number of colored youth in city, between five and twenty-one years of age.

96,155

4,067

Number of different pupils registered during the year..

24,828

Number of schools: high, 2; intermediate, 2; district, 19

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Average number of pupils belonging..

19,591

18,637

71.04

$680,011 37

Average daily number in attendance..

Per cent. of daily attendance on whole number registered.
Total expenditures for school purposes.

Total expenditures for salaries of teachers..

336,536 22

"The general average of pupils to the teacher, in the district school, is 50.3; in the intermediate, 48.9. The reported number of cases of tardiness in the district and intermediate schools for the last four months was 52,388, or an average of over 13,000 cases per month. At the same rate, the number of cases for the year would amount to 130,000. Large as this reported number is, I have every reason to believe the actual number would very considerably exceed it.

"The phonic method has now been very generally adopted in the schools as the basis of instruction in reading in the lower grades.

"Since the beginning of the present school year, the department of drawing has been throughly reorganized. The superintendent of drawing gives regular lessons two days in the week, and devotes the remainder of his time to supervision.

The three lower grades are taught by the regular teachers, who are themselves taught by Mr. Forbriger-the schools of each grade, in accordance with a resolution of the board, being dismissed once a month, on Friday afternoon, at recess, to permit the teachers to gather at some convenient school-house for the purpose of receiving such instruction.

"With this course of drawing in our public schools, the excellent and long-established school of design of the Ohio Mechanics' Institute, and the new school of the same kind, under the direction of the trustees of the McMicken Fund, we shall be able to afford such facilities for the development of the artistic talent in our community as are now possessed by no other city in the country.

"In accordance with a resolution of the board, directing the establishment of night schools, eight were opened, viz: seven district and one high school. There are now 1,289 in nightly attendance. The number enrolled was 1,555, of whom 202 were girls. The number of teachers employed is 36. Eight of these teachers receive $50 per month, and the remainder $15. The interest and earnestness of the pupils, if we except some of the classes of the smaller boys, are very gratifying; and among the Germans attending for the purpose of studying English, some 270 in number, they are truly admirable.

NORMAL SCHOOL.

"It had been the design of the committee on normal school, with the concurrence of the board, to open this school about the beginning of February last. But, notwithstanding a vigorous correspondence, looking to the selection of a principal for the school, was carried on in various quarters, and that a visit East was made by a member of the committee, with a like intent, it was found impossible to secure just the person for so responsible a position in time. The committee was finally fortunate enongh to engage Miss Sarah D. Dugane, a graduate of the Oswego training school, and for four years connected with the normal and training school of Boston, for the place. Under her supervision the school was opened at the beginning of the present school year, one room in the eighth district school-house having been set apart for the normal department, and two for the practice school. The latter is under the direction and instruction of Miss Emily M. Merriam, also a graduate of the Oswego training school. The school embraces classes from the four lower grades of the eighth district school."

COLUMBUS.

From the report of the city superintendent of schools, Hon. W. Mitchell, for the year 1868-69, the following is extracted:

Number of children from five to twenty-one years of age.
Number enrolled in public schools...

8,566

4.936

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There are five schools for colored children-two primary, two secondary, and one grammar school.

From the table showing the number of children enumerated, and the number onrolled in the schools at different ages, it appears that there are a larger number of children enumerated at the age of seven than at any other; a larger number enrolled at the age of eight, and that at the age of thirteen the largest per cent. of those enumerated are enrolled in school.

Four-fifths of all the children of the city, between the ages of seven and fifteen, have been, for a longer or shorter time during the year, enrolled in the public schools. Of those fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen years of age, one-third have received instruction some portion of the year. Estimating the number of children attending parochial and other private schools, it is believed that there remain in the city at least 2,130 who receive no school instruction.

CLEVELAND.

The thirty-third annual report of the board of education for the year 1869 includes a report of the president of the board, Hon. E. R. Perkins, and of the superintendent of instruction, Hon. Andrew J. Rickoff, which comprise, among many other items of interest, the following:

Enumeration of youth....

Increase for the year.

Whole number registered..

Average number belonging.

Average daily attendance.

Teachers employed: men, 14; women, 148; special, 3.
Average daily attendance to each teacher.

Number attending private schools: boys, 564; girls, 682.
Attending church schools: boys, 2,574; girls, 2,839..

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Of all the children in this city at twelve years of age, little more than one-half were in school at all last year; more than two-thirds of those at fourteen, and seven-eighths at sixteen, never darkened the school-house doors.

By far the largest part of the youth reported as attending church institutions are enrolled in the Catholic schools; a part, in the schools attached to Protestant German churches. The most of those returned as in private schools go to German schools; comparatively few to the English.

If all the school-going population of our city were in the public schools, our accommodations would fall short of the demand; how far, we may judge by recurring to the fact that the greatest number we can possibly receive in all our school buildings is only 10,753.

Total population, (United States census, June 1870,) 98,985.

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List of school officers of Ohio.

Hon. W. D. HENKLE, commissioner of common schools, Columbus.

CITY SUPERINTENDENTS OR PRINCIPALS OF GRADED SCHOOLS.

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Columbus Gallipolis.. Parkinan Yellow Springs Washington Cincinnati. Findlay. Kenton.. Napoleon Greenfield Logan.. Millersburg. Bellevue Jackson. Steubenville. Mt. Vernon. Painesville

Hanging Rock. Newark Bellefontaine Quincy

Oberlin.. Toledo London Youngstown Marion Medina.. Pomeroy Celina. Piqua

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Montgomery

Miamisburg

Morgan

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McConnellsville
Chesterville
West Zanesville.

Middleburg.
Elmore...
Somerset

Circleville

Piketon
Ravenna
Lewisburg
New Paris.

Superintendent.

W. D. Burbage.
J. M. Baker.
George Beck.

J. M. Goodspeed.
A. B. Castle.

E. Bishop.

E. C. McClintock.

J. F. Reinmund.
G. W. Felter.
C. W. Pritchard.
Clara A. Haas.
D. I. Foust.
A. J. Rickoff.
C. H. Newcombe.
J. S. Campbell.
M. F. Cowdesy.
G. W. Welsh.
William Mitchell.
H. J. Caldwell.

R. Burton.

C. B. Palmer.
J. J. Burns.
John Hancock.

E. Miller.

W. H. H. Avery.
J. H. Loomis.

C. W. Cole.

J. C. Mitchell.

A. S. Millholland.
J. B. Loveland.

C. S. Smart.
J. Buchanan.
R. B. Marsh.

T. W. Harvey.
II. M. Adams.

G. W. Walker.
J. Shaw.

J. S. Mason.

S. Sedgwick.

D. F. DeWolf.

W. M. McClintock.

P. T. Caldwell.
Mrs. Cuscaden.
S. G. Barnard.
A. Whitman.
S. F. De Ford.
W. Richardson.
A. J. Thompson.
L. O. Foose.

T. M. Stevenson.
P. M. Moore.
D. Harris.

W. H. Piggott.
J. Jenney.

H. S. Doubleday.

C. S. Smart.
W. P. Eastman.

W. V. Hussey.

C. C. Featherling.

G. W. Gates.

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Superintendent.

A. Z. Thomas.
H. P. Barnes.
G. H. Brenneman.

S. Motley.
John Bolton.
S. J. Kirkwood.
W. C. Catlin.
W. H. Dressler.
F. S. Campbell.
A. C. Robertson.
V. P. Kline.
Hassford.

P. N. Haskell.
W. II. Pitt.
W. Hill.

F. Wood.
George B. Lane.
H. Bennett.
N. Dwinnell.
J. C. Kinney.
G. B. Gear.

M. C. Grimes.

W. H. Kidd.

J. Brinkerhoof.

J. J. Sadler.
R. M. Donnelly.
M. E. Williams.
J. H. Myers.

Sub-districts.

Sep. dist's.

Statistical details of the number of townships, separate districts, sub-districts, and the number of graded and ungraded schools in Ohio, for 1865.

NUMBER OF SUB-DISTRICTS.

NUMBER OF SCHOOLS.

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