Excerpt from Tenth and Eleventh Annual Reports of the General Superintendent of Public Schools of the State of West Virginia: For the Years 1873 and 1874 The reports of the Superintendents of the following counties are nearly correct, namely: Brooke, Barbour; Cabel, Calhoun, Doddridge Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Lewis, Marion, Marshall, Mercer, Monongalia, Morgan, Putnam, Randolph, Roane, Taylor and Upshur. The reports from the following counties are imperfect in several important particulars, namely: Berkeley, Boone, Clay, . Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, Mason, Mineral Monroe, Nicholas, Ohio, Pendleton, Pleasants, Preston, Ritchie, Summers, Tucker, Tyler, Wayne, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt and Wood. The reports from the from the following counties are very imperfect, namely: Lincoln, McDowell, Pocohontas, Raleigh and Wyoming. The report of the county superintendent of Taylor county for 1874, was received at this office on the 31 st December, being too late for insertion in the statistical tables This is a very good report and it is to be regreted that it was not received at an earlier day. It shows that the whole number of youth attending school for the year was 2,174, and that the daily average attendance was 1,611, which, when added to the whole number reported in the tables, makes the total number reported as attending school during the year 110, 530, and the daily average attendance 69,908. The amount expended by this county for teachers for the year is $10,435.35. and the amount expended for all purposes is$14, 402.19, making the aggregate amount reported as expended by the teachers fund in the State$490, 866.19, and the aggregate amount expended for all purposes, including Taylor county, $720,270.20. It is very gratifying to see that the number attending school during the year ending August 31 st, 1871, is 29,430 greater than the number that attended any previous year, and that the average daily attendance is 8, 664, greater than the average for any previous year: yet when we consider that the whole enumeration reported to this office for this year is 173,462, and the whole attendance at school during the year was only 110,530, leaving 62.932, who did not attend any free school during the year, we see that there is still before us a wide field for still greater exertion and greater improvement, to the end, that all the youth in the State of school age shall attend some school. It is known that quite a considerable number of the youth enumerated attend private schools; yet it is also known that this number does not nearly equal the number of delinquencies at the free schools. In the reports of many of the county superintendents, of receipts and disbursments, considerable amounts of money are uncounted for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.