Tenth 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 Council, 1828.

 

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Number of pupils:

 

Kensington -       Boys - 208            Girls-204      Total-412

 

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Exclusive of the alphabet and spelling departments, and those who are beginning to write on slates, the classes are arranged as follows:

 

Kensington                   Reading          Writing on Paper            Arithmetic

 

Boys                131                  74                                116

            Girls                 106                  92                                106     

 

The girls, in addition to the foregoing branches, are taught sewing and knitting, and in some of the schools needle-work on canvass has been executed in a style of great neatness and elegance.

The whole number of Pupils are distributed thus:

 

            Second Section - comprising the Northern Liberties & Kensington - 966

 

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Second Section, Comprehending part of the Northern Liberties

 

            Teachers' salaries, wood, stationary, &c.             $2676.41

 

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Second Section drew orders for             $790.13

 

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Controllers for 1828:

           

            President: Roberts Vaux

            William W. Fisher

            Thomas Dunlap

            Benjamin Richards

            Issac W. Norris

            Charles Norris

            George M'Leod

            George Boyd

            Joshua Raybold

            Secretary to Board, Thomas M. Pettit.

 

Chamber of Controllers, west wing of State House.