REPORT. Section 8, chapter 48, of the Public Statutes provides that "the School Committee shall annually make a detailed report of the condition of the several public schools, which report shall contain such statements and suggestions in relation to the schools, as the committee deem necessary or proper to promote the interests thereof." In compliance therewith, and in accordance with the Rules of the School Board, the committee appointed to prepare the annual report of the School Committee for the year 1898, respectfully submit the following: SCHOOL SYSTEM. The public-school system of Boston comprises1 one Normal School, two Latin Schools (one for boys and one for girls), eight High Schools, the Mechanic Arts. High School, fifty-seven Grammar Schools, five hundred and fifty-six Primary classes, sixty-nine Kindergartens, one School for the Deaf, an Evening High School and twelve Evening Elementary Schools, five Evening Drawing Schools, a special school on 1 June 30, 1898. Spectacle Island, twenty-four Manual Training Schools, and twenty-one Schools of Cookery. STATISTICS. The statistics of the public schools are returned to the Superintendent semi-annually in the months of January and June, so that the statistics printed in the annual reports of the Board, issued usually in December, are for the year ending the preceding June. Those given below are for the year ended June 30, 1898. Number of children in Boston between the ages of five public schools during the year 1898: boys, 43,672; girls, 41,648; total 85,320 |