15th Annual Report of the Controllers of the Public Schools for the City and County of Philadelphia, composing the First School District of the State of Pennsylvania: with their accounts. Philadelphia: Printed by order of the Board of Control, 1833. 16 pp.

 

Total number of students in district: 4,797

 

Kensington now is comprised on its own section, that being section 10, which includes the Franklin Street School:
 
Kensington:                  216 boys,    264 girls,     480 total students

Franklin Street                80 boys,   60 girls,             140 total students

 

Penn Township 538, Southwark 726, and Northern Liberties 813, all have more students ( not counting the city districts ).

 The ordinary expenditure of the Board, as was anticipated in the last report, has been greatly augmented in this year, by the purchase of ground and the erection of three substantial and convenient brick school houses - one on Race Street, west of Broad, in the First Section, another on Master street, near Second, in the Tenth Section (Kensington) and the third in the Ninth (Moyamensing) section.

 

The wants of these sections, and the increasing demand of their population for ample school accommodations, have appeared to the Controllers a sufficient warrant for the appropriation of funds to these structures, the location, extent and excellence of which will enable the Directors of these several sections to extend their sphere of usefulness by furnishing seats for numerous additional pupils, who were, of necessity, debarred admission into the former schools.

 

A Model School for Infants has been started.

 

The report mentions of an “appalling pestilence was sweeping over our land and threatening desolation to our cities.” Apparently the yellow fever, or something was spreading through town and they had to vacate their building for the sick to use.
 
First. Details of Expenditures for Schools on the Lancasterian System:

For the account of Tenth Section:

Real Estate:                  $9,153.54
School Expense:             $1,311.18
Total:                            $10,464.52

 

Second. Details of expenditures for schools not on the Lancasterian System:

Tenth Section- Outer District:

$1,234.52 Total.
 

Controllers of the Public Schools for 1833:

 

Thomas Dunlap, President, T. G. Hollingsworth, John Steele, Henry Zollickoffer, Joseph Warner, John Oakford, Edward B. Garrigues, Jonathan Thomas, Joseph bockius, Evan W. Thomas, jr., Alexander Parker, Charles Norris, Charles Pettit, Sec.

 

Situation of the Public School House:

 

Northern Liberites. Third, near Brown Street

Teachers. John M. Coleman, Frances R. Eastburn

 

Franklin Street. East of Fourth Street

Teachers. Louisa Bedford

Kensington: Marlborough Street
Teachers: Henry W. Chadwick, Elizabeth W. Beechy.

Apple Street. For Coloured children; Northern Liberties

Teacher. William Sherman