Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1898 — Combining Schools. [ARTICLE]

Combining Schools.

The state board of education will endeavor to have the legislature work out the plans of Superintendent Geeting for combining small district schools into larger schools. There are in Indiana 2,000 schools with an attendance less than twenty, with an average cost of $24.22 a pupil; 1,000 schools with an attendance less than fifteen, with average cost of $28.50 a pupil; 500 schools with an attendance less than ten, with average cost of $38.18 a pupil and thirty-eight schools with an attendance less than five, with average of $58.51 a pupil. It has been shown that the per capita expense of educating all the children in the state is $8 and it is expected that this will be reduced considerably. •