The salaries of regularly appointed tutors varied according to the nature of the schools and the ability of the district to meet the expense.

After the Revolution, with increasing prosperity, came a spirit of general improvement and a new interest in the cause of education.

The present condition of education in Loudoun is hopeful, public instruction being now popular with all classes. Intelligence is more generally diffused than at any previous period of the County's history, and happily, the progress of moral education has, on the whole, fully kept pace with intellectual culture. Our boys and girls are reared in a home atmosphere of purity, of active thought, and intelligent cultivation; all their powers are keenly stimulated by local and national prosperity and unrestricted freedom in all honest endeavor.

With the improvement in the school system has come a better style of school-houses. The "little red school-house on the hill" has given place to buildings of tasteful architecture, with modern improvements conducive to the comfort and health of the scholars, and the refining influences of neat surroundings is beginning to be understood. Separate schools are maintained for colored pupils and graded schools sustained at populous places.

With free schools, able teachers consecrated to their calling, and fair courses of instruction; with a people generous in expenditures for educational purposes, and a cooperation of parents and teachers; with the many educational periodicals, the pedagogical books, and teachers' institutes to broaden and stimulate the teacher, the friends of education in Loudoun may labor on, assured that the new century will give abundant fruitage to the work which has so marvelously prospered in the old.

Total Receipts of School Funds for the Year Ending July 31, 1908.
(From report of Division Superintendent of Schools.)

From State funds$13,968 92
" County school tax12,355 38
" District school tax14,640 82
" All other sources322 30
" Balance on hand August 1, 19076,644 60
Total$47,931 97
Total expenditures42,788 58
Balance on hand August 1, 1908$5,143 39

School population, Number of Schools, Enrollment and Attendance by Races and Districts, 1906-1907. (From report of State Superintendent of Schools.)

Districts. School Population. No. of schools opened. Whole number Enrolled.Total
White.Colored.White.Colored.White.Colored.
Broad Run 748 228 19 4 538 131 669
Jefferson 619 216 15 4 446 196 642
Leesburg 381 143 9 3 358 107 465
Lovettsville 614 34 13 1 498 24 522
Mercer 628 482 15 7 467 277 744
Mt. Gilead 695 457 16 6 493 231 724
Town of Leesburg 255 130 6 3 196 121 317
Total3,940 1,690 93 282,996 1,0874,083