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are thirty-six grammar schools in the city. Annual salaries of the public
school teachers of the city amount to $550,000. The physical property of
the city's public schools is valued at $2,500,000, and the yearly per capita
cost for pupils is slightly more than $38.00. The High School course covers
four years. The High School offers technical training in mechanical arts,
a new building for this purpose having been added, at a cost of more than
$100,000. A new High School Building, costing $700,000, recently completed,
will surpass any building for similar purposes, between Chicago and the
Pacific Coast. |