History of Public School Education in Arizona/Statistics

by Stephen Beauregard Weeks

PUBLIC SCHOOL STATISTICS—1870=1916.

Table 1.—School population, teachers, property, and school year.

Years.	School popula­tion.[1]	Teachers.	Schools.[2]	Monthly salary.	Days in school year.	Value school property.
1870	1,923
1872–73	1,660
1873–74	2,584	11	11	[3] $100.00	180
1874–75	2,508	14	14	100.00	180
1875–76	2,955	21	21	110.00
1876–77		31	28	100.0	190	$44,436
1877–78	3,089	37	28	91.00	124	47,479
1878–79	5,291	51	51	74.00	165	78,681
1879–80	7,148	101	101	83.00	109	113,074
1880–81	9,571	102	148	84.00		121,318
1881–82	10,283	126	98			116,751
1882–83	9,376	98	104	75.00	120	82,183
1883–84	9,376	143	121	85.00	140	153,466
1884–85 [4]	10,219	131	137	86.00	120	212,385
1885–86 [4]	10,219	150	150	78.00	140	201,984
1886–87 [4]	10,303	175	169	81.00	143	176,238
1887–88 [4]	10,303	191	184	80.00	124	222,219
1888–89 [4]	12,588	199	197	79.00	135	222,958
1889–90 [4]	12,976	240	219	77.00	126	268,435
1890–91	13,874		237		127	297,444
1891–92	14,710		251		124	320,609
1892–93	15,463	269	265	78.18	130	344,646
1893–94	16,403	293	289	75.30	124	405,446
1894–95	15,909	321	261	70.41	120	414,447
1895–96	16,936	324	293	68.54	126	428,935
1896–97	17,427	350	337	65.41	128	445,379
1897–98	18,802	435	347	67.50	130	472,107
1898–99	19,823	373	375	67.77	127	490,504
1899–1900	20,833	399	398	67.09	125	529,024
1900–1901	23,435	445	428	68.47	128	612,929
1901–2	25,259	457	442	75.30	125	654,942
1902–3	25,951	482	467	71.00	125	783,735
1903–4	27,324	519	498	72.00	130	882,790
1904–5	29,290	536	523	72.21	125	970,902
1905–6	30,230	554	542	74.55	125	1,041,888
1906–7	33,169	626	596	74.91	128.4	1,158,335
1907–8	34,299	645	633	79.19	135	1,409,788
1908–9	34,299
1909–10	36,729
1910–11	38,611	876	765	84.70
1911–12	42,381	895	814	86.58		1,845,021
1912–13	46,681	1,020	865	86.98		2,102,419
1913–14	53,845	1,096	1,020	89.56
1914–15	56,471	1,219	1,082	91.61
1915–16	61,073	1,364	1,138	91.76

1. Until 1883 the school age was 6 to 21; 1884 to April, 1901, 6 to 18; since 1901, 6 to 21.
2. During the earlier years these are referred to as “school rooms,” “in 1881–82, as districts.” They were one-teacher schools.
3. Through 1880–81 these figures are for men. The salaries of women were as follows: 1873–74, $100; 1874–75, $100; 1875–76, $90; 1876–77, $50; 1877–78, $74; 1878–79, $68; 1879–80, $70; 1880–81, $68. The figures given beginning with 1882–83 are the average of all salaries.
4. From report for 1889–90; these figures do not always agree with those in other reports. They are probably in most cases only approximate.

Table 2.—Enrollment and attendance.

Years.	Total school en­rollment.	Per cent of school population enrolled.	Average school attendance.	Per cent of enroll­ment in average attendance.	Per cent of school population in average attendance.
1872–73	333	20.0
1873–74	343	13.2
1874–75	568	22.3	419	73.8	16.7
1875–76	1,213	41.0	900	74.2	30.4
1876–77	903		580
1877–78	2,740	88.7	890	32.5	28.8
1878–79	3,143	59.3	1,102	35.1	20.8
1879–80	4,212	58.9	2,847	67.6	39.8
1880–81	3,844	40.2
1882–83	3,751	40.0	2,554	68.0	27.2
1883–84	4,516	48.1	3,287	72.8	35.0
1884–85	4,974	48.6	3,226	64.9	31.5
1885–86	6,076	59.6	3,507	57.7	34.3
1886–87			3,602		34.9
1887–88			3,849		37.3
1888–89	7,286	58.6	4,293	58.9	34.1
1889–90	7,989	61.5	4,702	58.8	37.0
1890–91			5,047		36.4
1891–92			5,198		35.3
1892–93	10,104	65.3	5,340	52.5	34.5
1893–94	11,319	63.7	6,791	60.0	41.9
1894–95	11,450	71.9	7,034	61.4	44.1
1895–96	12,889	76.1	7,641	59.2	45.1
1896–97	13,367	76.7	8,983	67.2	51.5
1897–98	14,713	78.2	9,011	61.2	47.9
1898–99	15,893	80.2	9,396	59.1	47.4
1899–1900	16,504	79.2	10,177	61.6	48.8
1900–1901	17,817	76.0	10,951	61.4	42.4
1901–2	19,203	76.0	11,514	59.9	41.6
1902–3	20,008	77.1	12,105	60.4	46.6
1903–4	21,366	78.1	13,022	60.9	47.6
1904–5	21,792	74.4	14,009	64.3	47.4
1905–6	23,223	76.8	14,448	62.2	47.7
1906–7	25,360	76.1	15,667	61.8	47.2
1907–8	27,023	78.7	16,928	62.6	49.3
1910–11	33,029	86.8	21,776	65.9	56.1
1911–12	33,310	78.6	22,813	68.5	53.8
1912–13	33,336	75.0	25,003	71.4	53.5
1913–14	42,036	71.1	29,912	78.1	55.5
1914–15	43,316	72.8	31,555	76.6	55.9
1915–16	47,945	71.5	34,257	78.5	56.1

Table 3.—School revenue and school expenditures.

Years.	Income from State taxes.	County and dis­trict taxes.	From other funds, in­cluding balances.	Total receipts.	Salaries of teachers and super­intend­ents.	Miscella­neous ex­pendi­tures.	Total ex­pendi­tures.	Tax valua­tion, hun­dreds omitted.
1872–73				$5,849			$20,211
1873–74				11,417
1874–75	$4,690	$9,232	$14,837	28,760			24,152
1875–76				31,449	$11,089	$17,655	28,744
1876–77				20,708			18,407
1877–78				21,396			21,396
1878–79				32,421			29,200
1879–80				67,028			61,172
1880–81				58,768			44,628
1881–82				101,967			98,268
1882–83	19,007	82,383	[1]	101,390			77,998	$31,588,000
1883–84	27,959	177,942	[1]	205,901	59,878		161,862	30,228,000
1884–85[2]	19,199	87,768	79,699	186,666	78,839		138,165	28,683,000
1885–86[2]	10,662	85,760	18,441	159,956	89,551		135,030	23,207,000
1886–87[2]				120,045			117,005	26,194,000
1887–88[2]				157,707			130,212	25,913,000
1888–89[2]	3,496	145,809	30,477	179,782	105,910	44,634	150,543	27,057,000
1889–90[2]	1,783	170,277	29,239	201,289	123,178	54,306	177,484	28,050,000
1890–91				236,743			198,762	28,270,000
1891–92				247,202			207,898	27,923,000
1892–93				266,069			221,213	28,486,000
1893–94				205,611			176,671	27,062,000
1894–95	[3] 164,099	[4] 14,266	32,913	211,278	140,573	62,444	203,016
1895–96	[3] 190,743	[4] 11,235	17,138	219,116	152,438	62,013	214,451	28,047,000
1896–97	[3] 213,152	[4] 2,436	4,190	219,778	155,991	49,958	205,949	30,693,000
1897–98	[3] 233,094	[4] 454	16,735	250,279	169,981	54,295	224,186	31,474,000
1898–99	10,000	204,167	47,970	295,884	178,144	60,481	241,556	32,510,000
1899–1900	11,101	218,580	100,749	421,776	189,189	110,542	345,314	33,782,000
1900–1901	11,458	194,285	205,502	411,244	214,266	112,572	336,839	38,854,000
1901–2	22,951	209,736	297,962	530,649	224,600	176,636	401,236	39,083,000
1902–3	25,761	249,118	226,581	501,460	242,848	172,291	412,741	43,088,000
1903–4	32,439	271,051	252,370	555,859	256,714	181,715	438,828	45,070,000
1904–5	38,217	278,571	214,787	531,575	401,001	114,826	515,828	57,920,000
1905–6	41,006	330,057	208,323	579,385	448,924	163,780	612,703	62,228,000
1906–7	43,833	397,979	255,949	697,762	508,207	161,155	669,362	77,372,000
1907–8	66,338	491,323	256,402	814,063	603,505	321,421	924,926	80,638,000
1908–9	[5] 61,758							82,684,000
1909–10	[5] 54,687							86,126,000
1910–11	[5] 63,981							98,033,000
1911–12	58,308	633,397	1,125,943	1,817,647	[6] 890,533	431,062	1,321,595	140,388,000
1912–13	124,886	797,423	1,419,743	2,342,052	941,563	636,577	1,578,141	375,862,000
1913–14	475,529	734,946	1,210,475	3,187,023	1,212,116	1,923,432	2,135,549	407,267,000
1914–15	460,852	695,959	2,173,602	3,330,413	1,509,633	1,064,850	2,574,484	420,000,000
1915–16	478,572	1,008,441	2,173,871	3,660,883	1,515,576	1,151,501	2,667,077

1. Not differentiated.
2. From report of 1889–90; the figures differ from those in the report of 1885–86.
3. No returns from Apache and Coconino Counties.
4. Includes district taxes only.
5. These figures from House Journal, special session, 1912, p. 169.
6. From this date these items are called “school maintenance.”

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