Sixteenth 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. 1834.

 

Total number of students in the district: 6,767

 

Tenth Section (Kensington):

 

Marlboro’ Street          258 boys     213 Girls     478 Total

Master Street               305 boys     286 Girls     591 Total

 

Total Students:             563 boys     499 Girls     1062 Total

 

Except for the First Section, which is the city proper, the Tenth District had the most students enrolled in the County.

 

With a view to prepare for a full and efficient connection of a series of Infant Schools with the other Public Schools, the Controllers have recommended the addition of one large room to each of the new buildings mentioned above, in Race Street, in Moyamensing, in Kensington [here they must mean the new Master Street School], and in Front Street. These rooms are finished, and in all respects well adapted to the purpose. They are about 40 by 75 or 80 feet, and will furnish ample accommodation for three hundred pupils in each, if so many can be profitably taught in the same apartment. Schools have been ordered, and will be organized in each of these four buildings as soon as the fixtures, &c. can be arranged.

 

Details of Expenditures for account of Public Schools on the Lancasterian Sysstem:

 

For Tenth Section: Real Estate  School Furniture  School Expenses   Total

                                    $9,855.56   $24.00                     $2,617.23                     $12,496.79

 

School Not on the Lancasterian System:

 

For Tenth Section: $2,038.57

 

Controllers of the Public Schools for 1834

 

Thomas Dunlap, President, T. G. Hollingsworth, Charles E. Cathrall, George M. Wharton, George M. Justice, John Oakford, Morton M’Michael, Jonathan Thomas, Joseph Bockus, Evan W. Thomas, jr., Jacob J. Snyder, Charles Norris, Charles Pettit, sec.

 

 

Situation of the Public Schools:

 

Kensington. Marlborough Street.

Teachers. Henry W. Chadwick, Wlizabeth W. Beechy.

 

Master Street. Neaer Second Street

Teachers. A. T. W. Wright, Louisa Bedford.

 

Infant School. Same Building [that being Master Street School]

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