Excerpt from Reports of the Selectmen and Superintending School Committee of the Town of Bristol: For the Year Ending March 1, 1872

The First Term the whole attendance was 41 average, 32. Of these, 15 were boys 26 were girls the oldest, 18 the youngest 12. There were 77 cases of tardiness, but 23 schol~ ars were not tardy at all. Two pupils not absent one half day.

The Second Term the whole attendance was 46 average, not quite 37. Of these, 25 were boys, 21 were girls. There were04 cases of tardiness, 20 of which were by one scholar, and 30 scholars were not tardy at all. Eight were not absent one half day.

Third Term, the whole attendance was 51 average for 9 weeks, 44. Ten pupils have not been absent one half day during the 9 weeks, and 4 others have not during the 7 weeks they have attended. The term being not yet closed, the other items have not been ascertained.

The studies pursued in this department the past year, beyond the common-school course, have been Physiology, Science of Common Things, Algebra, book-keeping, Geometry and Latin.

The whole number Of weeks Of school for the year will be 33 In addition to the public money, the District raised by taxation, $300.

In regard to all the departments of the Graded School, the Committee has felt, since they have been under their present Instructors, that they were in safe, faithful and judicious hands. The rank of scholarship in the common-school studies, both in the Grammar and High Schools, has been constantly kept be low what it might be, partly by the necessity of advancing scholars into them before they were thoroughly fitted, in order to keep the two lower schools from over¿owing, and partly by the non-attendance of a portion of the scholars during the Summer and Fall Terms. To obviate the latter difficulty, he recommends that, hereafter, the annual examination for ad vancement take place at the commencement of the Fall Term, instead of the close of the Winter Term, as heretofore.

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