Of which $225 00 are without interest; $12,600 00 bear interest at 7 per cent; $34,500 00 bear interst at 8 per cent; $25,000 00 bear interest at 10 per cent.

Respectfully submitted.

Dated September 7, 1874.

J. H. MCKEE, Secretary.

ANN ARBOR.

DESCRIPTION.

The Ann Arbor High School building occupies a healthful and pleasant location on State street.

It is a plain brick structure, three stories high, and 70x100 feet in size, with front and rear center projections 4x36 feet.

There are six outside doors, viz.: two in front 24 feet apart, opposite two similar ones in the rear; and one at the center of each extremity of the building. The front and rear entrances are joined by two parallel halls eight feet wide,-likewise the side entrances by a transverse hall.

This arrangement furnishes four session rooms 28x30 feet, each seating 70 pupils. Between the parallel halls there are, in front, the Superintendent's room, 16x20 feet; in rear, a recitation room of the same size. Dressing rooms open from the transverse hall adjoining the Superintendent's room and recitation room.

Corresponding to the six entrances are six flights of stairs leading to the second story. The same plan as below gives the same number and size of rooms, with the addition of a room for apparatus, taken from one of the halls. Four stairways lead to the third story, where there is a similar arrangement of rooms in the rear half. The front half, 35x100 feet, is the chapel, which will seat about 700 persons.

It will be seen that there are ten larger rooms, and four smaller recitation rooms. One of the larger rooms on the third floor is used for writing and commercial classes; the other for painting and drawing classes.

The capacity of the building is thus made 560 seats. Somewhat more than half of it, one end, is occupied by the High School, and the balance by the grammar school.

The building would be much too small to accommodate both of these departments, but that high school pupils do not prepare their lessons in school, and are present only at recitations.

The building is heated by steam, mostly by direct radiation, although there are registers which furnish some hot air from coils of pipes in the basement. From the floor of each room a cold-air duct extends to a flue in proximity with the main chimney.

The building is very symmetrical, although its parts were not erected at the same time. The front half was built in 1856, costing $30,000 00, and was

among the earlier union school buildings of the State. The other half was added in 1871, at a cost of $35,000 00.

This house is of a sober, practical type, convenient in arrangement, and comfortable in its appointments, but has no special features of beauty or spaciousness of which to boast.

The grounds are small, but tasteful and well cared for.

REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT.

To the President and Board of Trustees of the Ann Arbor Public Schools:

GENTLEMEN-In accordance with Section 3, Part I. of your Rules and Regulations, I hereby submit to you my fourth annual report.

The most important statistical information is as follows:

Cost of schools, excepting salaries of teachers..

6,125 00

School taxes, exclusive of building purposes, and including twomill tax...

19,372 50

Taxes for building purposes

2,320 00

Estimated value of school property -

140,000 00

Cash valuation of the real and personal property of the school

district....

5,414,505 00

A summary of the monthly reports of the various departments is given in

Table I.:

* This total includes special teachers in Penmanship, Drawing, and Music.

The most important items of enrollment and attendance for the past seven years are brought together in Table II.

These tables will be found instructive, especially if compared with those of preceding years.

We find that while the non-resident attendance has regularly increased, the aggregate enrolln.ent has quite uniformly decreased. This diminution of resident enrollment is not due to an increased attendance upon private schools, nor yet to a larger proportion of children not in any school, but rather to the fact that the number of children in the district of school age is steadily lowering. We report this year 44 less than last year, and 244 less than two years ago.

With a smaller aggregate enrollment, our daily attendance has measurably increased over the preceding year, owing, probably, to the uniformly healthy condition of the city during the entire year.

The per cent of attendance is quite satisfactory, but that of tardiness is much too high, and I am convinced it is unnecessarily so. Our teachers will need to practice a more stringent execution of rules concerning tardiness,