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│ │ │ │ Income │
│ Number │ │ │ for │
│ of │ Counted │ │ Current │Value of
States │Schools │Attendance │Teachers │Expenses │Property
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Total │ 112│ 13,507│ 404│ $146,821│ $491,000
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Alabama │ 9│ 885│ 25│ 13,064│ 25,000
Arkansas │ 3│ 253│ 13│ 4,230│
Delaware │ 1│ 80│ 18│ 23,000│ 75,000
Florida │ 7│ 663│ 17│ 3,330│
Georgia │ 7│ 1,170│ 23│ 4,840│
Kentucky │ 6│ 506│ 10│ 2,510│
Louisiana │ 25│ 3,142│ 83│ 18,304│
Maryland │ 4│ 888│ 20│ 5,650│
Mississippi │ 13│ 1,440│ 42│ 8,952│ 56,000
North Carolina │ 6│ 407│ 12│ 2,700│
Oklahoma │ 2│ 65│ 4│ 750│
South Carolina │ 3│ 366│ 10│ 2,500│
Tennessee │ 2│ 281│ 9│ 4,350│
Texas │ 6│ 617│ 17│ 3,640│
Virginia │ 7│ 847│ 52│ 31,075│ 335,000
Northern States │ 9│ 1,387│ 38│ 15,094│
District of Columbia│ 2│ 510│ 11│ 2,882│
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So far as they could be determined, the annual income for current
expenses is about $150,000. The value of the property of the seven
larger schools is about $500,000, of which $335,000 is in the two
schools at Belmeed, Va. The total attendance is 13,507, of whom 13,443
are elementary and only 64 secondary. The number of teachers is 404, of
whom the majority are white sisters of various Catholic orders. The
proportion of teachers of simple industry is small and the number
teaching gardening and agriculture is negligible.
The two largest Catholic schools are located at Rock Castle, Virginia.
Both of these schools receive the greater part of their support from
Mother Catherine Drexel, of Philadelphia and her family. These schools
are the St. Emma Industrial and Agricultural College and the St. Francis
de Sales Institute. The literary works of these schools is low; but the
industrial work is of high order. Other large Catholic schools are: St.
Joseph’s Catholic School, Montgomery, Alabama; St. Joseph’s Industrial
School, Newcastle, Delaware; Holy Ghost Catholic School, Jackson,
Mississippi; St. Joseph’s Parish School, Meridian, Mississippi, and St.
Mary’s Commercial College, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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