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PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION IN ARIZONA.

States which seems to indicate that school officials in Arizona are unwilling to assist in “breaking in” young teachers, and as a consequence young people who are trained for teaching are driven out of it for the beginnings of their actual teaching experience.[1]

According to the report of Dr. Neil for 1915–16, there were then 242 high-school teachers at work in the State, of whom 140 were college graduates and 46 normal graduates; 23 libraries contained 20,572 volumes. There were 1,170 first-year pupils; 542, second-year; 786 third-year; 383 fourth-year, of whom 356 graduated. Of these, 111 entered college and 70 entered a normal school. The salaries of teachers varied from $55 per month, the smallest at Yuma, to $225 the largest at Phoenix. The cost per capita per pupil varied between $42.35 at Winslow and $200 at Douglas. The average cost for 22 schools was $123.65 per pupil.

The following table, made up from reports furnished to this office shows the condition of the high schools along certain lines not given in detail in Dr. Neil’s report.

Statistics of Arizona high schools, 1915–16.
Schools. Years in course. Days in session. Teach­ers. Pupils. Vol­umes in library. Value of library. Total value, school prop­erty. Total in­come. Ex­pended for sites, build­ings, etc. Courses given other than aca­demic.
Benson [Table 1] 4 170 6 55 300 $55,000 4
Bisbee 4 180 14 231 1,700 $2,000 100,000 4
Clarkdale 4 200 3 [Table 2] 23 2,000 3,000 21,000 2
Clifton 4 168 8 70 880 750 40,000 4
Douglas 4 169 14 238 900 1,200 61,000 $22,000 $8,000 4
Duncan [Table 1] 4 170 4 36 50 75 50,800
Florence Union [Table 1] 4 172 8 56 600 800 110,000 3
Glendale 4 173 5 107 600 350 52,000 4
Globe [Table 1] 4 180 12 108 550 800 100,000 4,738
Kingman 4 180 2 27 150 275 300
Mesa Union 4 169 13 203 1,067 600 53,000 20,000 2
Miami Union 4 175 3 52 500 600 1
Morenci 4 162 2 20 600 1,000 2,000 1
Nogales 4 172 4 51 625 800 80,500 51,456 3
Phoenix Union 4 165 37 [Table 3] 910 900 1,000 265,000 70,449 4
Prescott 4 184 8 [Table 2] 146 1,090 1,368 123,702 20,745 3
Safford [Table 1] 4 172 6 46 471 500 55,000 6,850 55,000
Tempe Union 4 170 8 93 1,200 1,200 50,000 1
Tombstone 4 170 2 26 150 200 6,500 2,500 2
Tucson 4 165 12 283 900 1,200 145,000 18,040 1,000 3
Willcox 4 171 5 68 220 250 11,900 7,500 1,750 3
Winslow 4 180 12 112 2,762 3,000 51,000 13,390 4
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Statistics for 1916–17.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Includes 1 colored pupil.
  3. ↑ Includes 8 colored pupils.

VI. THE NORMAL SCHOOLS.

Normal-school training in Arizona dates from 1885. An act passed on March 12, 1885, appropriated $5,000 for the erection of suitable buildings and $3,500 for support of the school for the two years 1885 and 1886. The Territory furnished for a site 20 acres

  1. ↑ Arizona Teacher, November, 1916, pp. 16–18.
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