Some Michigan School Statistics

Superintendent of Public Instruction Pattengill reports that in 65 of the 84 eounties of the state, there are regularly organized teachers' associations. There are in the state 350 districts vrhere f ree text books are supplied to the pupils. Reports from these districts almost without exception bommend the system. In the graded schools the enrollinent is 258,799; in ungraded schools, 210,200; in select schools, 44,842; teachers in the graded schools, 5,262; in ungraded schools, v"ti3; men in graded schools, 793; women, 4,654; men in ungraded schools, J,G8 1 ; women, 8,057; aggregate wages paid all teachers, 83,894,264. 19; average monthly wages of men in graded schools, 879.12; in ungraded schools, $31. AN; monthly wages of women in jraded schools, 843.24; in ungraded, $25.74; number of teachers holding normal certitieates, 498; whole number jf legally qualified teachers, 11,077; frame school houses, 5,987; brick 1,361; stone 74; estimated value of all school property, 810,584,399.