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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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lowing result: white childrenbetween 4 and 18, 2,264; under 4. 1,118; colored, 92; Indian, 18;Chinese, 45; total under 18, 3,537; between 18 and 21, 134. For 1866 the law required a return from between 5 and 15 j-ears, theRevised School Law making these years the limit for drawing schoolmoney. The census was as follows: white children under 15, 3,372;colored, 99; Indian, 10; Mongolian, 38; total under 15, 3.519. In 1867 there were of children under 15 years of age: white, 3,782;colored, 102; Indian, 14; Chinese, 45; total, 3,943 The average number of pupils attending the public schools has beenas follows, since 1863, no statistics being at hand prior to that year. Inthis year, the present grading principle was introduced : 1863, on theroll, 949—average attendance, 782; 1864, on the roll, 1,202—averageattendance, 919; 1865, on the roll, 1,446—average attendance, 1,057;1806, on the roll, 1,622—average attendance, 1,200 j 1867, on the roll,1,700—average attendance, about 1,300.
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225 There are 15 schools in the city, viz: 1 Hipih, under the charge of aPrinciinil and assistant; 1 Grammar, under a Principal and lour assist-ants; 4 Intermediate, under a Principal and assistant each ; 7 Prima-ries, having a Principal and assistant each ; 1 Colored, MMth a Principaland assistant; and an Ungraded, wnth a Principal only. The last namedand the Colored are not graded. The course of study in the Primaries and Intermediates occupies twoyears each; and in the Grammar and High, three each. All the schoolsare thus equal to ten grades of one year each. An additional one shouldbe substituted between the Intermediate and Grammar, which will proba-bly be done next year, by adding a fourth grade to the Grammar, or athird to the Intermediate. The Board of Education now employ 32 teachers and assistants, at thefollowing monthl)^ compensations: Assistant in Colored School, $20;Assistants in Primaries, $35; Assistants in Intermediates, $45; Assist-ants in Qrammar No. 1, 180, and Nos

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