Ninth Annual Report of the Controllers of the Public Schools of the First School District of the State of Pennsylvania: with their Accounts. Philadelphia: Printed by Order of the Board of Control, William Fry, Printer, 1827.

 

 

 

The number of students in the district are 3,992:

 

Kensington: Boys 216, Girls 211, Total 427

 

Southwark, 701, Northern Liberties, 582 were the only districts outside the city with more students.

 

Disposed in classes as follows:

 

Kensington:

Boys:  Alphabet 14, Spelling 51, Reading 151, Arithmetic 103, Paper Writers 61

Girls:  Alphabet 6, Spelling 43, Reading 162, Arithmetic 93, Paper Writers 65

 

These children are distributed as follows, under the care of the respective boards:

Directors of the Second Section, Northern Liberties and Kensington …1009

 

Second Section Expenses:

 

Teachers’ salaries, wood, stationary, and rent of Adelphi Schook, $2,477.75

School Furniture                                                                                 $    36.25

Total                                                                                                  $2,514.00

 

Directors of the Second section, for that part of the Northern Liberties and Kensington not comprised in the Lancasterian system, the Controllers drew orders for $686.66

 

 

 

Board of Controllers

 

Roberts Vaux, President, William W. Fisher, Thomas Dunlap, Benjamin W. Richards, Charles Norris, Isaac W. Norris, George M’Leod, Rev. George Boyd, Thomas McKean, Pettit, sec.

 

Directors Second Section By the Commissioners of the Kensington District of the Northern Liberties, on the 2d January:

 

John C. Browne, Adam Richard, Michael Day, George Wilson, Hugh Roberts, Charles Norris.

 

Directors Second Section By the Commissioners of the Incorporated District of the Northern Liberties, on the 2d January:

Benjamin Naglee, John child, Joseph Warner, John C. Da Costa, Daniel Groves, Isaac W. Norris.