January 31, 1888
The School Records Tell a Suggestive Story
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An Influx of Families during the Last Two Months – The Enrollment and Attendance Rapidly Growing – A Talk with Superintendent Esterly
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“The records of public schools are a sort of thermometer and register the fluctuations of the population of the city with a good degree of accuracy,” said Professor C. Esterly, superintendent of the public schools, to a TIMES reporter yesterday. “When a new family moves into the city, the children in that family enter the public schools. If the family moves away, the children go too, and they have a gap in the ranks of the school.”
“What do the school records show for El Paso thus far this year?” asked the reporter.
“They show a great deal,” replied the superintendent. “Let us look at those figures and then see what they mean.”
The superintendent turned to the files of teachers reports, which gave the following record of enrollment of pupils for the preceding school year and the present school year, for the five months beginning with September and ending with January, as shown by the teachers’ monthly reports of enrollment.
No. PUPILS
September, 1886 407
October 435
November 461
December 477
January, 1887 521
Total enrollment for year 1886-87 616
September, 1887 505
October 520
November 521
December 537
January, 1888 613
“The explanation of these figures,” continues Superintendent Esterly, “is this last October and November there was a considerable exodus of families from El Paso to California. The ranks of the schools were actually decimated. The loss in numbers was seen much more clearly in the attendance than in the enrollment. But, as you see from the above figures, the tide has now turned. The influx of families during the last two months has not only made good the previous loss but has given us already, at the end of the fifth month, an enrollment as large, lacking three, as the total enrollment for the preceding year. Those figures are to me conclusive proof that a stream of immigration has set in during the last two months.”
The city schools are in a flourishing condition are doing thorough, energetic work. The different schools and teachers, with the number of pupils, are as follows:
TEACHERS AND PUPILS
High school room, Miss Ella B. Meekins, teacher 139
Room No. 4, Miss Jessie Stanfield, teacher 63
Room No. 3, Miss Mary Gates, teacher 63
Room No. 2, Miss Anna Moore, teacher 80
Room No. 1, Miss Florence Thornton, teacher 84
Rink school, Mrs. M.E. Periet, teacher 49
Stanton Street school, Miss Alice M. Disbrew, teacher 42
Mexican preparatory school, Mr. O.V. Aoy, teacher 42
Franklin Street school, colored, Mr. A.C. Murphy teacher 39
Total 613
HONOR ROLL
Among the incentives to prompt and regular attendance is an “honor roll” of pupils who have no cases of absence or tardiness charged against hem. The roll for the first five months of the present year, ending January 27, is as follows:
Louisa Chriss
Carrie Geck
Josie Kaufman
Emily Marr
Sallie Newman
Eugene Bias
Harlie Irvin
Charles Newman
Ames Nicholson
Herbert Stevenson
Bailey Archey
Nellie Cooper
Pansy Loomis
Henry Chriss
Eva Dawe
Mollie Hart
Nona Pettyjohn
Pearl Wilbanks
Nina Long
Georgia Sullivan
Samuel Fernandis
Maud Doane
Nettie Ingle
Angie Marr
Bertha McGirr
Ellen Windsor
Chase Higgins
Van McKie
Zeke Newman
Eddie Pew
Howard Thurman
India Bogardua
Lulu Hilzinger
Effie Price
Maury Kemp
Nettie Ball
Myra Newman
Constance Windsor
Minnie Fernandis
Carrie Sparks
Julia Sullivan
Lillie Cole
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