History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, including Lynnfield ...

268 Miscellaneous Notes.
in 1 88 1, was 64: namely, i High School ; 7 Grammar Schools ;
55 Primary Schools ; i Evening Drawing School.
School Houses: These are in number as follows: for High
School, I ; for Grammar Schools, 7; for Primary Schools, 21 ;
and there are 7 Primary Schools in Grammar School-houses.
Teachers. Whole number in day Schools, 118; in evening
Drawing School, 3.
Pupils. Number belonging to all the day Schools, between
the ages of 5 and 1 5 years, 5.516; of the age of 1 5, and upwards,
400 ;
making the pupils in the day Schools, 5.916.
HigJi School Graduates, June i, 1881, 30.
Cost of Support. The following extract from the Report of
the Committee for
1881, sufficiently exhibits the items of expenditure
:
The charge upon the city for the maintenance of its system of public schools has
been $93,677 17, divided into the following items of expenditure :
Teachers' salaries, $65,823 79
School-houses and repairs, 6.042 65
Apparatus and furniture, 2.058 69
Care of school-houses, 6.438 78
Fuel, 5.030 86
Books and stationery, ....... 5.452 45
Printing, 1.285 63
Incidentals, 1-544 32
Total, $93-677 17
To grain some knowledge of the increase in
our school svstem,
the reader can refer to the brief summary on page 586 of our
1865 edition. The number of schools at that time was 48;
teachers, 59 ; pupils. 4-332.
Lynn Newspapers. The proximity of Lynn to Boston and
Salem, may be sufficient to account for our not having had a
local newspaper before the year 1825.
And for forty years after
that date it can hardly be claimed that we had a permanently
successful publication, in a pecuniary way, though there were three
or four that by their ability and usefulness well deserved success.
But within the last few years a great advance has been made.
The papers are now much better, as a general thing, and much
cheaper ; and they have greatly improved in the quality of the
paper, the printing, and in the mechanical aspect generally ;
excepting that just now it is the fashion to make such displays