Statistical Report
The following is a statistical report taken from the teachers' annual report to the County Superintendent. It contains facts which are significant in judging the worth of a teacher and the success of his school. School boards should examine the report after each teacher's name. It ought to aid them in determining the relative merits of teachers.
Explanation of Tabulated Reports.
In the following tables the columns are numbered from 1 to 16. The heading for each column is as follows:
| 1. | District, school and teacher. |
| 2. | Number of honor pupils. |
| 3. | Amount of money raised by each school. |
| 4. | Number of special programs rendered. |
| 5. | Number of patrons present on Patrons' Day. |
| 6. | Did the school have or participate in a fair? |
| 7. | Does the school have a library? |
| 8. | Number of books added to libraries. |
| 9. | Kind of clubs organized. A, Agriculture; D, Domestic Science; L, Literary; C, Community. |
| 10. | Number of educational meetings attended by teacher. |
| 11. | Number of school papers read by the teacher. |
| 12. | Number of books on the teachers' reading course read. (Two required.) |
| 13. | Percentage each school made in the pupils' reading contest. *signifies indefinite report. |
| 14. | In this column yes signifies that the teacher taught his pupils how to test seed corn as requested. |
| 15. | Column 15 expresses in a measure the degree of effort each teacher made in beautifying his school room and school ground. E signifies excellent; G, good; M, medium, and blank, no effort. |
| 16. | Apparatus added by the school. |
Note -- An entire series of blanks after a teachers' name means that he made no report. All blanks signify lack of cooperation, carelessness, indifference and failure along these particular lines. However, we consider a report containing all blanks but one or two better than no report at all.
Table containing statistics for each school is being transcribed.
Observations and Suggestions upon the Above Summary
| Greatest No. of Honor Pupils, boroughs, New Bethlehem | 95 |
| Greatest No. of Honor Pupils, townships, Wentlings Corners | 17 |
| Total No. Honor Pupils in the county | 639 |
Wentlings Corners School had the highest percentage of Honor Pupils in the county, boroughs included. This school had an average attendance of 97 per cent and has fifteen pupils in the Edenburg High School – an exceptional record.
New Bethlehem, counting base ball, basket ball, etc., leads in the amount of money raised during the year. Owens School, Clarion Township, raised more money than any other rural school. Limestone Township more than any other township.
| Total amt. money raised by schools 1914-15 | $3435.02 |
| Total amt. money raised by schools 1913-14 | $2476.11 |
| Increase | $958.91 |
| Total No. Social Center Meetings 1914-15 | 387 |
| Total No. Social Center Meetings 1913-14 | 344 |
| Increase | 43 |
The patrons deserve great credit for the interest manifested on Patrons Day. Redbank apparently is most loyal.
There are 158 school libraries in the county. Many are very small. About forty rural schools do not have any libraries at all. We would urge the teachers of these schools to make a start for a library this year and all the teachers that have libraries in their schools to continue increasing them.
We recommend that the teachers continue to buy for the various grades, the books recommended by the state course, and such other books as will supplement and reinforce the daily recitation work. The brief recitation period can scarcely do more than create a hunger, and the library books should be so selected that the pupils, thus made hungry by judicious teaching in the class, may find satisfying food in the library books. A great library contains not only books but, "The assembled souls of all that men held wise." -- Devenant.
