sary to assign pupils of more than two grades to one room, are classified as follows:"

1. Third-class schools include all schools entitled to four or more assistants."

2. Fourth-class schools include all schools entitled to three or more teachers."

3.Fifth-class schools include all schools entitled to two teachers."

4. Sixth-class schools include all schools having but one teacher."

CORPS OF TEACHERS TO EACH SCHOOL

RULE 72.

(a) In the assignment of teachers, there shall be an average of at least one assistant to each thirty pupils in the Normal and High School, one assistant to each fifty pupils in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth years (or grades), and one to each fifty-five pupils in the first, second, third, and fourth years, in the District Schools.

(b) When, in the estimation of the Superintendent, the classification of pupils in a school makes it necessary to reduce the quota of pupils to a teacher, one assistant shall be allowed for each forty pupils.

(c) In schools classified in accordance with the provisions of Section III, Rule 71 (schools in sparsely settled districts), an assistant shall be allowed for each forty pupils additional after the number has reached forty.

(d) In each case enumerated there may be allowed an additional assistant in case of an additional number of pupils greater than one-half the quota defined in this rule.

In a Kindergarten, sixty pupils shall entitle the director to one paid assistant, and an additional paid assistant for each thirty pupils over sixty. In colored schools having

eight rooms or more, fifty pupils shall constitute the proper quota for a teacher. All other colored schools shall be governed by the rule applying to schools situated in sparsely settled districts.

RANKS OF TEACHERS.

As shown in the above schedule of salaries, our assistant teachers hold different ranks.

In the Normal and High School the highest rank is that of assistant principal; the lowest, that of fifth assistant. In the District Schools the highest rank is that of head assistant; the lowest, that of third assistant.

In the Kindergarten the highest rank is that of whole-day director; and the lowest, half-day paid assistant.

With the exception of special cases in the High School the assistant teachers in each department begin with the lowest rank and are promoted upon merit to the next higher rank when vacancies occur. All promotions are made from any one rank to the next higher to fill vacancies in the next higher rank, and such promotions are based upon the success in the lower rank, of the teacher promoted.

In the organization of the Normal and High School there shall be one principal, one assistant principal and a sufficient number of assistants to make up the quota of teachers (as above prescribed), subject to the following regulations:

1. One of each eight assistants (exclusive of the assistant principal), or a fraction equal to or greater than one-half of eight, may be head assistant.

2. One of each eight assistants (exclusive of the assistant

principal and the head assistants), or a fraction equal to or greater than one-half of eight, may be a first assistant.

3. One of each five assistants (exclusive of the assistant principal, the head assistants and the first assistants), or a fraction greater than one-half of five, may be a second assistant.

4. One-half of the assistants (exclusive of the assistantprincipal, the head assistants, the first assistants and the second assistants) may be third assistants.

5. The remainder of the teachers shall be fourth or fifth assistants.

In the organization of the District Schools there shall be one principal and one head assistant in each first-class school and one principal in each other school not first-class and a sufficient number of assistants to make up the quota of teachers (as heretofore prescribed), subject to the following regulations:

One of each six assistants in a school (exclusive of the head assistant and the Kindergarten directors and assistants), or a fraction greater than one-half of six, shall be a first assistant.

One of each four assistants in a school (exclusive of the head assistant, first assistants and Kindergarten directors and assistants), or a fraction equal to or greater than one-half of four, shall be a second assistant.

SUPPLY OF TEACHERS.

For several years there has been a sufficient number of graduates from our Normal School to fill all vacancies in the District Schools. Our Normal graduates have had four years of High School training and one and one-half years of professional study and training in the Normal School and are

well fitted to begin their actual practical experience as teachers in the District Schools.

Examinations are held regularly in December and July for the examination of applicants for positions as principals of the District Schools or assistants in the High School. Ladies who have passed this examination have been placed upon the list of teachers for appointment to assistants' positions in the District Schools, where they so desired.

TEACHERS FOR THE KINDERGARTENS.

Persons who desire to learn the principles and method of Kindergarten instruction are admitted as volunteer assistants in the Kindergarten, after having passed the required examination in the English branches. These volunteer assistants serve during one-half of each day in the Kindergarten for the purpose of learning the practical work under the direction of a competent Kindergarten director. They also meet in classes weekly and receive theoretical instruction from competent teachers.

After completing the prescribed courses they are allowed to take the required examination and, if successful, they are given diplomas which entitle them to appointments to positions as paid assistants or as directors of Kindergartens, when vacancies in such positions occur.

Volunteer assistants in the Kindergarten must be at least seventeen years of age.

We find, as a rule, that graduates of the High School or persons having an equivalent or more advanced literary training make the most successful and promising Kindergarten teachers. We recommend graduation from the High School, at least, before undertaking the work of the Kindergarten.

THE NORMAL AND HIGH SCHOOL.

The number of pupils admitted to the junior or first year of the High School during the school year ending in June, 1893, was 612. Of this number 359 were received from the District Schools in September, 1892, 253 in January, 1893, and 42 from schools other than the public schools.

In 1887 we began as an experiment to admit pupils to the junior year of the High School, from the District Schools, on the recommendation of the principals of the District Schools in which the pupils completed the District School course.

At first this plan seemed to give satisfaction as it avoided the failures often brought about by the nervous strain produced by examinations in unfamiliar places and by strange persons. This plan, too, made it possible to take into consideration the manifested ability of the pupil in his daily work.

The success of the pupils during their first year in the High School seemed to furnish sufficient evidence of the correctness of the Principal's judgment as to the ability of the pupils whom he recommended for admission to the school, and to serve as a check to too great liberality in his recommendations.

Notwithstanding the general belief that at first prevailed as to the value of this method of admitting pupils to the High School, in time suspicions and dissatisfactions arose which finally caused the repeal of the act of the Board authorizing the admission of pupils to the High School on the recommendations of the Principals of the District Schools, and at the close of the present school year, June, 1893, the Board ordered an examination by the Principal and teachers of the High School, of all applicants for admission to that school.