Claims and Accounts-Inspectors Rumney, Ford and Rassman.

School Houses and Repairs - (Eastern District) Inspectors Weir, Goodale and Potter.

School Houses and Repairs-(Western District)Inspectors Colburn, Wilkinson and Martin.

Real Estate and Building

Inspectors Flanigan,

Goodale, Ford, T. McGrath and Lindsay.

SCHOOL PROPERTY VALUATION.

The following table exhibits the location of the real estate and personal property belonging to and under the control of the Board of Education, and the number of sittings in each school house at the close of the year 1871.

The present cash valuation of all our public school property is $545,410. In 1872 many improvements were made on buildings, and the sittings correspondingly increased.

The expenditures from the Building Fund, for completing the Jefferson and Pitcher School Houses, for rebuilding the Houghton, for building the Lincoln House, and for furnishing these buildings; also for the purchase of lots, and for various important changes and improvements in some of the other School Houses, have been as follows: School Furniture. Cass School....

Capitol School...

Irving School.

Washington School..

Lincoln School

Bishop School

Barstow School

Houghton School..

Franklin School..

Jefferson School.

Pitcher School.

$572 15

344 42

295 26

50 05

Total of all expenses of the Board for 1872...$170,228 24

ENROLLMENT AND ATTENDANCE FOR THE PAST 14 YEARS.

The school enrollment since 1859 is exhibited in the following table:

THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT NAMES ENROLLED.

During the year 1872 there were 11,764 different names enrolled in the School Registers, and twenty-seven weeks is the avera ze time each pupil attended school. The closing of the Ohio Street School, and two rooms in the basement of the Bishop School, and the school time occupied in building the Lincoln and in rebuilding the Houghton Houses, and the opening of free schools by the Catholic Church in the western part of the city, have reduced the enrollment somewhat; and the alarm created by the measles and small pox excitement during last term, seriously interfered with the school attend

ance.

PATRONS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

The following table shows the number of different pupils enrolled in the public schools during 1872, arranged according to the occupation of their parents, exhibiting at a glance the classes of community who send their children to our schools: