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(1) one-room rural schools, (2) village elementary schools, (3) city 

 elementary schools, and (4) senior high schools. The teachers in 

 rural one-room schools constitute 13.2 percent of all the teachers but 

 have only 10.8 percent of the pupils. The number of pupils per 

 teacher in rural one-room schools is 19.4 compared with 23.7 for all 

 schools. Village elementary schools have the largest number of 

 pupils per teacher, namely 27.0. It is noteworthy that senior high 

 schools have 30.8 percent of the teachers but only 26.1 percent of the 

 pupils, an average of only 20.1 pupils per teacher. 



Table 5 gives the distribution of teachers according to their sal- 

 aries and type of school. Most of the rural one-room teachers get less 

 than $1,000, and of the village elementary teachers nearly three- 

 fourths receive between $850 and $1,100. On the other hand, city 

 elementary and senior high school teachers average much higher 

 than $1,100. The average salary of all elementary women teachers in 

 the state was $1,094. 



Table 5. Distribution of Public School Teachers According to Salary Range 

 AND Type of School, 1937-1938 



Type of school 



Salary range 



Rural 

 one- 

 room 



Village 

 elemen- 

 tary 



City 

 elemen- 

 tary 



Senior 



high 



hCnuols 



Number of teachers 



Under $ 550 



$ 550' to $ 649 



$ 650 to $ 749 2 



$ 750 to $ 849 117 



$ 850 to $ 999 227 



$1,000 to $1,099 28 



$1,100 to $1,199 8 



$1,200 to $1,299 3 



$1,300 to $1,399 3 



$1,400 to $1,499 



$1,500 or more 



No data 



All teachers 388 



16* 



4 



79 

 379 

 222 



76 



34 



23 



10 



20 



3 



3 



4 



41 



75 



99 



102 



83 



58 



307 



2 



863 



m 



9* 

 1 



5 



38 

 90 

 74 

 68 

 60 

 61 

 496 



902 



All 

 schools 



25 



4 



9 



206 



685 



415 



257 



207 



169 



129 



823 



2 



2,930 



* Some are part-time teachers. 



The organization of the school district for administration of its 

 affairs in many respects resembles that of the town. The annual 

 district meeting may be held any time between March 1 and April 20 

 for the choice of district officers, for raising and appropriating money 

 for the support of schools, and for the transaction of any other dis- 

 trict business. Fifty-five percent of the school districts of the 116 

 rural towns visited held their annual meeting on town meeting day, 

 most of them in the afternoon following the town meeting in the 

 morning. In a few instances, the warrant specified the time of meet- 

 ing as less than two hours after that specified for a town meeting, 

 and in one instance as only 30 minutes after such meeting. 



