Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1875 — School Report. [ARTICLE]

School Report.

* Mr. C. W. Clifton, teacher of the first intermediate department of the Rensselaer school reports for the three ninths beginning November 4th and ending December 24th, 1875, as follows: Number of scholars enrolled 57 —males 27, females 30; average daily attendance 44—males 17, females 27; average daily absence 13 —males 10, females 3; cases of tardiness 162—males 55, females 107; average age of pupils 13; average conduct first month 70, second month 60, third month 90. Those grading 100 per cent, in attendance and punctuality are Anna Lamson, Lorena Platt, Clara Reeve, Eddie Reeve, Henry Smith and Daniel Willey. Pupils graduating from this, and promoted to the grammar or high school, department, are Ella Osborn, Mary Weathers, Anna Lamson, Clara Reeve, Blanche Boroughs, Mary Yated, Lizzie Eger and Alice Rhoads. Total average grade of class 83 per cent. The tardiness is deplorable, some pupils being tardy as many as sixteen times; much of it was caused by the school pump being out of order, Compelling the children to go to neighboring wells for water, sometimes keeping them two or three minutes late.