Our public schools consist of the Boys' High School, the Girls' High
School, the Capital Hill Grammar School and the Sayre Street Grammar
School for white children, and Swayne College and Cemetery Hill School for
colored children.
There are employed in the white schools, twenty-six regular teachers and
one supernumerary, and in the colored schools, ten teachers.
There has been an attendance during this year of about nine hundred and
fifty white children, a larger number than ever before, and about four
hundred and fifty colored children. The expenditures for the session
1887-8 have been about twenty-three thousand dollars, besides about four
thousand dollars for buildings and repairs.
The income of the schools is derived from an annual appropriation by the
city, an annual appropriation from the State, regulated by the number of
school children in this school district, and from the poll tax collected
from the citizens in this district.
The schools are in a flourishing condition. The Superintendent is a
competent, painstaking gentleman, and his assistants are for the most part
well adapted and fitted to be his coadjutors in the good work.
[Illustration: Residence of A. A. Wiley]
The schools begin on the first Monday in October and end on the last
Thursday in May, thus having an eight months' session. The children within
the district who are able to pay it, are required to pay a fee of two
dollars per session of eight months; those who are unable to pay this fee
are admitted free. The students in the Boys' High School and in the
highest class of the Girls' High School pay a fee of ten dollars per
session of eight months, if able to do so.
We have every prospect of continued prosperity in the schools.
[Illustration: Moses Building]
[Illustration: The Adams Cotton Mill
OFFICERS ADAMS COTTON MILL: J. R. ADAMS, PRESIDENT; J. B. SHERROD,
SECRETARY AND TREASURER; W. L. DOLPHYN, SUPERINTENDENT. CAPACITY 5000
SPINDLES AND 150 LOOMS.]
[Illustration: Noble Boykin & Clopton Bldg.]
[Illustration: Hobbie Building]
[Illustration: Griel Building]