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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

SCHOOLS OF SIERRA COUNTY.

   Sierra county is divided into twenty-six school districts, in all of which
excellent schools are taught. The districts were named and numbered February 23,
1871, since which time but one new district has been created. The board of
examiners of the county are J. S. Wixson, county superintendent; S. A. Smith, of
Downieville; J. H. Thorpe, Howland flat; J. E. Berry, Forest City; E. L. Case,
Sierra valley. Twenty-eight teachers are employed in the county, of whom
fourteen are males and fourteen females. There are twenty-five school-houses
built of wood in the county. Ten grammar schools are taught, and eighteen
primary schools, the average salary paid to male teachers being $84.53 per
month, and $68.75 to females. The number of school children in the county
between the ages of five and seventeen is 1,172; number attending school, 961;
total value of school property, $19,515. The receipts in the school fund from
taxes collected in the county during the year 1881 were $8,379.40; receipts from
state fund, $10,187.73; total for 1881, $23,787.01, which includes moneys
received from other sources. The tax levied for the support of public schools in
Sierra county for 1881 was fifty cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable
property. The total expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1881, were
$18,000. Following is a complete list of the school districts of the county,
together with the number of school-children in each, those attending school, and
the value of school property. To avoid an annoying repetition of words, the
successive figures merely are given. The first numerals state the number of
school children between the ages of five and seventeen years in the district;
the second show the number in regular attendance; and the third the value of
school property.

   ALPINE district, 24; 24; $550. ALTA, 22; 12; $215. ANTELOPE, 28; 21; $175.
BUTTE, 92; 62; $1,100. CLARE. created in June, 1881, 15; 11. DOWNIEVILLE, 177;
151; $1,900. EUREKA, 20; 18; $230. FOREST, 146; 138; $2,080. GIBSONVILLE, 43;
38; $400. GOODYEAR'S, 52; 31; $800: LONG POINT, 13; 12; $250. LONG VALLEY, 27;
24; $300. LOYALTON, 62; 45; $1,650. MINNESOTA, 33; 20; $1,000. MOUNT PLEASANT,
21; 21; $600. NEWARK, 17; 12; $450. PLUM VALLEY, 39; 30; $650. POVERTY HILL, 23;
21; $325. POKER FLAT, 17; 10; $210. EOCKY POINT, 22; 19; $550. SIERRAVILLE, 97;
78; $2,900. ST. LOUIS, 40; 36; $280. TABLE ROCK, 58; 51; $1,200. UNION, 30; 26;
$275. WASHINGTON, 20; 17; $350. TOTAL, 1,172; 961; $19,515. In Downieville seven
negro children regularly attend school, and one China child attends the Mount
Pleasant school. Nearly all the districts have ample accommodations for the
pupils.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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