8 January 1879
BOARD OF EDUCATION
The Superintendent's Annual Report 
The annual report of Superintendent Thos. W. FIELD to the State
Superintendent, Neil GILMOUR, with a report to the Board, was read and
ordered printed. The following is a digest of the report:
 
1.     The number of duly licensed teachers employed and teaching at the
same time, for twenty-eight weeks or more during the school year
commencing October 1, 1877 and closing September 30, 1878, was 1,245.
 
2.     The number of children over five and under twenty-one years of
age, residing in the city on the 30th day of September, 1878, was
164,250. 
 
3.     The number of public free schools within the city was fifty-six.
 
4.     The number of private schools within the city (not including
colleges, incorporated academies or seminaries) was ___- (I have no
means of ascertaining.) 
 
5.     The number of pupils over five and under twenty-one years of age,
registered as having attended such private schools some portion of the
school year closing with September 30, 1878, was _____.  (No means of
ascertaining.) 
 
6.     The whole time the public schools were taught within the twelve
months ending September 30, 1878, was forty-one weeks and one day.
  
7.     The whole time the public schools were taught by teachers while
duly licensed during said year was forty-one weeks and one day.
  
8.     Of the teachers employed during any portion of the year the
number licensed by certificate of the (State) Superintendent  of Public
Instruction was twenty-seven.
  
9.     The number holding Normal School Diplomas was twenty-one.  The
number licensed only by local authorities was 1,258.
 
10. The number of licensed teachers who were employed in teaching during
any portion of the school year was thirty-three males and 1,272 females.
Total, 1,305.
 
11. The whole number of children of school age who attended the public
schools some portion of the year was 93,333.
 
12. The  average daily attendance of children of school age attending
the public schools was 50,695.
 
13. The whole number of days of attendance at the public schools of all
the children of school age attending said       schools was 10,330,120.
 
14.     The whole number of days on which the public schools were taught
during the school year - that is were actually open for the instruction
of the pupils, duly licensed teachers having been present each day - was 206.
 
15.     The number of holidays during the terms of school occurring on
the regular school days, but during which the schools were not taught,
was 12.
 
16.     The number of other week-days (including Saturdays) during the
terms of schools, on which schools were not taught, was 41.
 
17.     The number of volumes in the public schools libraries is 28,000;
and their present estimated value is $23,000.
 
18.     The number of school-houses is:  frame, 10; brick, 46; stone,
__; total, 56.
 
19.     The school-house sites are valued at $548,675,?53; and the
school-houses at $4,211, 877.
 
20.     The number of school-houses built during the year is none.
 
4 June 1879
APPOINTMENTS:
No. 3 - Miss I.M. BOYLAN to fifth grade primary, May 1.  Miss E.C. MUMFORD to 
sixth grade primary, May 1.  Miss Mary DUGAN to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No 4 - Miss M.S. MECKER {or  MOCKER or MOEKER - blurred text} to sixth grade 
primary, May 1.  

No. 7 - Mrs. Anna THOMPSON to fifth grade primary, May 1.  Miss Esther FROST 
to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 11 - Miss F.M. EDSALL to fourth and fifth grade primary, May 1.  Miss 
E.A. GOODWIN to sixth grade primary, May 1.  Miss W. BRENNER to sixth grade 
primary, May 1.

No. 13 - Miss Nora NEISON to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 14 - Miss K.L. DUGAN to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 18 - Miss L.A. WALSH to sixth grade primary, May 1.  Miss L.S. VAN HOREN 
to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 19 - Miss I.M. STRATTON to fourth grade primary, May 1.  Miss E.C. POWERS 
to fifth grade primary, May 1.  Miss H.A. BERRIEN to sixth grade primary, May 
1.  Miss A.E. MALLOY to sixth grade primary, May 1.  Miss F.L. CONBOY to 
sixth grade primary, May 1.

The following teachers were at different time, reported as temporary 
appointments:

No. 21 - Miss M.T. ALLEN to sixth grade primary, May 1.  Miss E.L. COLE to 
sixth grade primary, May 1.

No 22 - Miss L.F. WILMOT to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 23 - Miss F.J.B. BROWN to sixth grade primary, May 1.  Miss K. CANAVAN to 
sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 24 - Miss S.E. CASSIDY to sixty grade primary, May 1.  Miss M.E. TURNER 
to sixth grade primary, May 1.  Miss G. FOREST to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 25 - Miss Carrie CRANE to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 28 - Miss L.A. DALY to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 30 - Miss T. FITZGERALD to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 35 - Miss F. KIRKLAND to sixth grade primary, May 1.  Miss J.I. VELSEFELT 
to sixth grade primary, May 1.

No. 36 - Miss E.J. LYLE to sixth grade primary, May 1.

TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS:

No. 15 - Miss Lilias TUCKER to sixth grade primary vice Miss FRISBY, May 1.

No. 20 - Miss M.M. HILLMAN to sixth grade primary vice Miss GARRETT, May 1.

No. 32 - Miss Mary K. SCANLON to sixth grade primary vice Miss SMITH, March 
18.

No. 35 - Miss Sarah N. BROAD to sixth grade primary vice Miss HODGE 
(deceased), April 1.

RESIGNATIONS:

No. 8 - Miss M.A. DUNKLY principal female department, May 1.  Miss K. 
MACDONOUGH sixth grade grammar, May 19.

No. 15 - Miss A. WALTON first grade primary, May 1. 

No. 20 - Miss E.E. OSTROM third grade primary, May 1.

PROMOTIONS:

No. 11 - 
Miss A.E. MILLS to fifth grade grammar vice Miss SIMS (transferred) May 1.  
Miss A.L. HEDGE to sixth grade grammar vice Miss MILLS, May 1.  
Miss C.C. CALKINS to first grade primary vice Miss HEDGE, May 1.  
Miss L.H. SIMS to second grade primary vice Miss CALKINS, May 1.

No. 15 - 
Miss H.M. GRIFFING to first grade primary, vice Miss WALTON (resigned), May 1.  
Miss R.R. SMITH to second grade primary vice Miss GRIFFING, May 1.  
Miss Carrie PRATT to third grade primary vice Miss SMITH, May 1.  
Miss Lina HICKS to third grade primary vice Miss PRATT, May 1.  
Miss Kate GILBERT to fifth grade primary vice Miss HICKS, May 1.  
Miss Louise WILSHEAR to fifth grade primary vice Miss GILBERT, May 1.  
Miss Florence FRISBY to sixth grade primary vice Miss WILLSBEAR, May 1.

No. 20 - 
Miss N. COPPERNOLL to third grade primary vice Miss OSTROM (resigned), May 1.  
Miss E.J. McNABB to fourth grade primary vice Miss COPPERNOLL, May 1.  
Miss M.A. BARKER to fifth grade primary vice Miss McNABB, May 1.  
Miss L. GARRETT to sixth grade primary vice Miss BARKER, May 1.

No. 32 - 
Miss M.E. RECARD to second grade primary vice Miss VAN DUYNE, March 18.  
Miss M.E. BOGUE to third grade primary vice Miss RECARD, March 18.  
Miss A.J. CHAMPNEY to fourth grade primary vice Miss BOGUE, March 18.  
Miss M.L. HENDRICKSON to fifth grade primary vice Miss CHAMPNEY, March 18, 
Miss M.E. REGAN to sixth grade primary vice Miss HENDRICKSON, March 18.  
Miss M.R. SMITH to sixth grade primary vice Miss REGAN, March 18.

Primary No. 4 - 
Miss E.M. FARRELL to first grade primary (grade raised), May 1.  
Miss B. MAHER to first grade primary (grade raised), May 1.

Transcriber:
Nadine Demczyszyn
Blanche Craton
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