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SACRAMENTO.

ADD. C. HINKSON....

.Superintendent.

I have received only the following statistical information concerning the school department of this city:

Number of census children, June, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, 4,112.

Primary Schools.-Number of classes, 16; number of female teachers employed, 16; total number of pupils enrolled, 895; average number be. longing, 817; average daily attendance, 693; maximum salary paid, $80; minimum salary paid, $50; total annual expense of maintaining schools, $17,098 80.

Intermediate, or Second Grade Schools.-Number of classes, 14; number of female teachers employed, 14; total number of pupils enrolled, 756; average number belonging, 714; average daily attendance, 603; maximum salary paid, $85; minimum salary paid, $55; total annual expense of maintaining schools, $14,961 45.

Grammar Schools.-Number of classes, 18; number of male teachers, 2; number of female teachers, 16; total number of pupils enrolled, 827; average number belonging, 753; average daily attendance, 687; maximum salary paid to male teachers, $175; minimum salary paid to male teachers, $100; maximum salary paid to female teachers, $100; minimum salary paid to female teachers, $80; total annual expense of main taining schools, $18,885 72.

High School.-Number of classes, 4; number of male teachers, 2; number of female teachers, 2; total number of pupils enrolled, 105; average number belonging, 101; average daily attendance, 97; maximum salary paid to male teachers, $240; minimum salary paid to male teachers, $100; salary paid to female teachers, $100; total annual expense of maintaining schools, $6,000.

Evening School.-Number of classes, 2; number of male teachers, 2, one receiving $50, and the other $40; total number of pupils enrolled, 65; average number belonging, 60; average daily attendance, 47; total annual expense of maintaining school, $600.

Colored School.-One class taught by a female teacher, receiving $100; total number of pupils enrolled, 53; average number belonging, 48; average daily attendance, 38; total annual expense of maintaining school, $1,250.

Ungraded Schools. Two classes, 2 female teachers, receiving each, $100; total number of pupils enrolled, 109; average number belonging, 97; average daily attendance, 85; total annual expense of maintaining schools, $2,300.

All the schools, except the evening school, are maintained ten months in the year; the evening school is maintained from six to seven months in the year; the teachers are paid by the month, and only for the time actually taught, and not by the year, as in San Francisco.

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