The Little Red School Houses

THE LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSES

THERE ARE 8,066 SCHOOL HOUSES IN STATE.

And Over Half a Million Pupils Attend School in Them.

There are 730,101 children of school age in Michigan, while there were but 510,031 pupils enrolled in the public schools for the school year ending Sept. 2, 1901. There were 53,046 in private, select or parochial schools.

There are 13,240 positions for teachers in the public schools of Michigan of which 6,712 are in the graded schools and 6,528 in the ungraded. In the graded schools, 1,001 men and 5,857 women teachers are employed, while in the ungraded schools there are 2,039 men and 7,157 women employed. The total number of teachers employed in all schools was 16,054 so that 2,814 teachers find employment only for a part of the year.

The total amount of teachers wages in the year was $4,736,779.14. In the graded schools the men averaged $73.94 a month and the women $44.91 a month while in the ungraded schools the men averaged $31.12 and the women $26.04 per month. There are 8,066 school houses in the state.