LYON SCHOOL PLANS.

(b) High Schools

(c)

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

Superintendent of Instruction.

St. Louis, March 14, 1911.

To the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis:

The report of the Department of Instruction of the Public Schools of St. Louis for the year ending June, 1910, is arranged as follows:

I. Expenditures for Instruction

II. School Buildings

III. Pupils, Registration and Attendance.

IV.

Teachers and Supervisors

V. Branches of the Department of Instruction.

(a) Kindergartens and District Schools.

Teachers College

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54

62

66

69

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74

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(g) Special Schools for Individual Instruction.
(h) Industrial School

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.167

(k) Department of Drawing

Department of Penmanship

(m) Department of Physical Training

Department of Manual Training

Department of Compulsory Attendance
(p) The Department of School Hygiene
(q) Educational Museum

VI. Special Reports and Discussions

Appendix:

I. Teachers' Organizations

II. Statistical Tables

(Definitions of the terms "registration," "enrollment," "membership," etc., as used in this report will be found on page 6.)

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I. EXPENDITURES FOR INSTRUCTION.

The details of expenditures for this department are given in the report of the Auditor, pages 394-397. The following table compares these expenditures with those for the year

Expense office for 1908-09 included

tions, museum, excluding salaries"

"Contingent fund, printing, postage, medical examina

$6,792.14

Through error contingent fund expenditures not included. . 606.40 Correct sum for Expense office..

$7,398.54

Expense office for 1909-10 includes

"Contingent fund, printing, postage, including departments of drawing, kindergarten, music, attendance, hygiene and physical training”.

$7,507.19

To make comparison of 1908-09 with 1909-10 the item of$7,398.54 $449.48 (Museum) should be subtracted from the total amount $7,398.54 charged to expense office

The increase in salaries was the result of
Natural increase under schedule.

1.

449.46 $6,949.08

2. New schedule increasing salaries of principals.
3. Increase in number of teachers required by the
opening of the Soldan High School, in the kinder-
gartens, grades and evening schools.

4. The extension of the departments of penmanship,
hygiene and music.

5.

Increase in cost of salaries of clerks.

The increased cost of supplies was due almost wholly to the great expense for textbooks and stationery required by the opening of the new high school. into this increase are:

Other items that enter