Eleventh Annual Report of the Controllers of the Public Schools of the First School District of the State of Pennsylania: with their Accounts. Philadelphia: Printed by Order of the Board of Control, Garden & Thompson, Printer, 1829.

 

The number of students in the district are 4,297:

 

Kensington: Boys 212, Girls 211, Total 423

 

Southwark, 669, Northern Liberties, 644 were the only districts outside the city with more students. The Lombard Street Colored School had 552 students.

 

Besides those who belong to the Alphabet and Spelling Sections, and those who are beginning to write on slates, the classes are arranged as follows:

 

Kensington:

Boys:  Reading 118, Arithmetic 118, Writing on Paper 74

Girls:  Reading 114, Arithmetic 114, Writing on Paper 114

 

In addition to the above mentioned branches, Grammar and Geography are taught, and the girls are instructed in Sewing, Knitting, and Marking on Canvass.

 

The whole number of Pupils are thus distributed:

Second Section, Northern Liberties and Kensington …1067

 

Second Section Expenses:

 

Teachers’ salaries, fuel, stationary, &c.                                               $2,646.83

Real Estate                                                                                         $     56.65

Total                                                                                                  $2,703.48

 

Directors of the Second section, for that part of the Northern Liberties and Kensington not comprised in the Lancasterian system, the Controlles drew orders for $1,076.23

 

 

 

Board of Controllers

 

Roberts Vaux, President, Thomas McKean, Pettit, sec. (no others are mentioned)