SAGINAW. DESCRIPTION. The Saginaw City Central School building was erected in 1867, at a cost of about $80,000. The extreme dimensions of the building are 80 and 130 feet. It is three stories high with a basement, is built of brick with cut stone trimmings, and is roofed with slate. The basement is 10 feet high, the first and second stories each 15 feet, and the third story 25 feet from floor to ceiling. The building has four entrances, two on the southwest side, as seen in the cut, and two on the opposite side. These entrances open into halls 16 feet wide, running across the building, which are connected with each other by another hall 12 feet wide, running through the centre of the building in the opposite direction. The floors of the building are connected with each other by four stairways, which with the ample hall accommodations make it possible to clear the building of a large number of pupils in three or four minutes, without the least confusion. In the basement are five furnaces, by which the building is heated. It is also used as a wood room and janiter's store-room. The first floor is occupied by six school-rooms, each capable of seating 65 pupils, two recitation rooms each 25 by 17 feet, a library room 15 by 30 feet, and a teachers' cloak room. The second floor has two large school-rooms each 34 by 46 feet, two 25 by 30 feet, with recitation rooms the same as those on the first floor. The room over the library is the Superintendent's office, and that over the cloak room is a waiting room for visitors. On the third floor are two school-rooms 25 by 30 feet each, three recitation rooms, a store-room for school supplies, and the chapel, 46 by 80 feet. As at present arranged the building seats 852 pupils. [The above description and financial statement of the Saginaw City School district for the year 1873-4, were furnished to this department after the resignation of Superintendent Charles D. Hine, by his successor.-SUPT.] EAST SAGINAW. REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT. 1o the Hon. Board of Education of East Saginaw: GENTLEMEN-I herewith present for your consideration my third annual report of the schools under your charge. 326 19. Increase in average attendance.... Per centage of increase in average attendance. The number belonging June, 1873, was 55 per cent of the enrollment for the year. The number belonging June, 1874, was 63 per cent of the enrollment for the year. teachers in charge of school-rooms.. assistant teachers.... special teachers. teachers employed June, 1874.... Average number of pupils per teacher... 66 66 66 66 10 43 2 4 49 46 65.4 41.1 94.3 .915 The two most noteworthy items above, are those which indicate the large increase in daily attendance, equivalent to the services of seven additional teachers, and the pleasant indication that attendance on school is improving in regularity, the attendance being larger in proportion to the enrollment than formerly, and showing that each pupil enrolled has remained on the average two weeks longer in attendance than last year, and has while in attendance been absent and tardy but nine-tenths as much. This is more agreeable than it would be were it the result of an increased effort on the part of the teachers. The additional two weeks of school attendance per pupil, may perhaps be in part at least accounted by the "hard times," affording less demand for juvenile labor. The enrollment and attendance by schools is shown by the following table: The total of the above numbers is not the same as the total averages given elsewhere, for the reason that the Jones and Sweet schools were open but one term, and drew their pupils mainly from the other schools. The attendance has improved in all the schools except the Crary and Houghton, but the improvement is most manifest in the schools of the Seventh and Eighth Wards, in which the absence and tardiness has been only half as great as during the year previous. |