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the St. Louis exhibit, as a whole, was one of the best and most attractive Educational Exhibits at the Columbian Exposition.

A general award for the excellence of the Missouri State Educational Exhibit was given to Hon. J. K. Gwynn, Executive Commissioner for Missouri. The St. Louis schools are entitled to a large share of the credit for the success of the State exhibit, since they contributed more of the material composing that exhibit than all the rest of the State collectively. According to official statements more awards for excellence were accorded the St. Louis Public School Exhibit than were given to any other city in the country. The awards to the St. Louis schools were as follows:

1. "Primary Schools - Volumes of manuscripts, in part by entire Infant Classes."

2. "Primary Schools- - Frames and Volumes of Drawings."

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Cases and Pieces of Clay Modeling."

4. "Primary Schools - Relief Maps."

5. "Primary Schools - Frames and Volumes of Map Drawing." 6. "Public Schools - Volumes of Maps - third to eighth years."

7. "High School — Cases of Patterns and Mouldings, Manual Training." (This award for Manual Training evidently belongs to the L'Ouverture School.)

8. "High School- Frames and Volumes of Drawings."

9. "Professional School

Training."

- Frames illustrating Normal Kindergarten

10. "Kindergarten Schools - Frames and Bound Volumes - Picture sewing."

We have quoted above the statement furnished us from the Department of Awards, and copied from the records of the same Department. In the above statement of Awards, Primary Schools" includes work of all grades of the District Schools.

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Any one who has examined this exhibit must concede the great benefit that such efforts must be to the schools. Interest, earnestness, and intense application are secured

by such efforts. The results secured furnish an ideal of results that can be attained by future classes.

Annual local exhibitions of school work would be productive of much good in stimulating teachers and pupils to strive for the best results.

The value to the country of so extensive an exhibition of educational work as that made at Chicago cannot well be overestimated. It was a surprise to every one, and besides giving new and advanced ideas in many directions, it proved conclusively that the educational interests of the country are being well cared for in all sections.

I herewith add the names of the officers and members of the Committee on Exhibit who conducted this successful exhibition of our school work. Great praise is due this Committee for its unselfish work.

Mr. W. H. McClain, President.

Mr. E. H. Long, Vice-President and Chairman Committee on Plan, Preparation and Arrangement of Exhibit.

Mr. L. W. Teuteberg, Secretary.

Mr. James Y. Player, Treasurer.

Mr. Wm. Bryan, Custodian.

Mr. Henry Hickman, Chairman Committee on Ways and Means.

Mr. Richard Bartholdt, Chairman Committee on Rules and Legislation. Mr. Walter F. McEntire, Chairman Committee on Entertainments and Exhibitions.

Mr. Charles W. Hequembourg, Chairman Auditing Committee.

Miss Amelia C. Fruchte, Chairman Committee on Statistics and Graphic Charts.

Mr. William M. Butler, Chairman Committee on Pictorial Representation. Mr. Ben Blewett, Chairman Committee on Printing and Publication. Miss Fanny M. Bacon, Chairman Committee on District Schools.

Mr. John H. Spinning,

Mr. Charles M. Foster,

Mr. George T. Murphy,
Mr. F. Louis Soldan,
Mr. Caesar Bumiller,

Mr. George Wittich,
Mr. Peter Herzog,

Mr. Henning W. Prentis,

Mr. J. K. Gwynn,

Mrs. Tillie E. Riley,

Miss Mary C. McCulloch,
Mrs. Mary H. Ludlum,

Miss Josie M. Hunt,

Mrs. Theresa Blennerhassett-Adams.

NORMAL AND HIGH SCHOOLS.

During the year important changes have been made in higher education in St. Louis. The Normal School, for many years distinct from the High School, created for the purpose of educating teachers, has been consolidated in part with the High School. This is in the nature of an experiment, which lessens the cost of Normal instruction, but the result alone can show whether or not this radical change is to the interest of the Public Schools. I refer to the report hereinafter submitted from the Principal of the Normal and High School, which explains at length the work of each department. It may be interesting to note the increase in the number of women who are seeking the advantages of a higher education. The records show that for a number of years their number has constantly increased, and proportionately they far exceed those of the other sex who attend the High School.

In conclusion I take pleasure in acknowledging the faithful and efficient services of all of our executive officers, teachers and employes of the Board to whose efforts the satisfactory results of our system of public education are largely due.

GIST BLAIR,

President.

OF

ANNUAL REPORT

THE SUPERINTENDENT.

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
ST. LOUIS, August 1, 1893.

To the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools: GENTLEMEN-I have the honor to present herewith the thirty-ninth annual report of the management and condition of the schools under your charge.

The appendix of this report contains detailed statements for each of the schools in our public school system, showing enrollment, attendance, number of teachers, size of rooms, manner of heating and other information that can be readily shown in tabular form.

In the appendix will also be found the names, location and district boundaries of the schools, together with lists of teachers with their rank, for each school.

SCHOOL STATISTICS.

Population of the City of St. Louis, June 1, 1890,451,770. School population, June 30, 1893 (between the ages of six and twenty):

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Number enrolled in Private and Parochial Schools, about.... Estimated number of persons of school age not enrolled in either Public or Private Schools..

25,000

70,878

The "school population" includes all persons between the ages of six and twenty.

The number of pupils enrolled in private and parochial schools is estimated at 25,000. Several attempts have been made to obtain a full statement of the number of pupils attending schools other than the Public Schools, but as yet no satisfactory results have been obtained.

SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

Total number of school buildings...

Number of school buildings owned by the Board.
Number of school buildings rented by the Board..
Number of school rooms.....
Seating capacity for pupils..

COMPARATIVE TABLE FOR NINETEEN YEARS.

118

105

13

1,027

57,090

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Total value of property used for school purposes..... $3,561,426 18

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