STUDENTS AT WORK ON NEW BUILDING. JOHN A. ANDREW HOSPITAL.
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA.
One of the best known schools in the world. Considered by many as the greatest achievement of the Negro race. It was founded in 1880, by Booker T. Washington. It has nearly 200 teachers, 1400 students and property valued at approximately $4,000,000.
INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS.
By independent schools is meant such as are not connected with any public or denominational agency; but are under the direction and control of a general board of trustees. These trustee boards are usually composed of colored men, northern men and southern men. As a rule they are self-perpetuating—that is—the trustees themselves elect new members of the board to fill vacancies such as may occur through death or resignation.
In number and income the independent schools form the most important group of schools. They are non-sectarian in character, and draw support and pupils from all sources and classes of the people. The leading facts concerning this group of schools, according to the recent report of the Bureau of Education are as follows:
| INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| States | Number of Schools | Counted Attendance | Teachers | Income for Current Expenses | Value of Property | ||
| Total | White | Negr. | |||||
| Total | 118 | 14,851 | 1,144 | 249 | 895 | $1,099,724 | $12,369,441 |
| Alabama | 23 | 4,887 | 331 | 23 | 308 | 369,544 | 4,279,566 |
| Arkansas | 2 | 70 | 2 | 2 | 1,100 | 3,700 | |
| Delaware | 2 | 22 | 4 | 4 | 5,250 | 18,600 | |
| Florida | 3 | 234 | 24 | 24 | 19,158 | 85,875 | |
| Georgia | 21 | 2,654 | 97 | 29 | 68 | 2,888 | 493,673 |
| Kentucky | 3 | 177 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 20,351 | 529,698 |
| Louisiana | 7 | 671 | 34 | 34 | 10,831 | 118,037 | |
| Maryland | 3 | 38 | 3 | 3 | 1,385 | 2,750 | |
| Mississippi | 4 | 858 | 58 | 58 | 33,618 | 314,220 | |
| Missouri | 1 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 2,837 | 38,500 | |
| North Carolina | 9 | 597 | 55 | 55 | 18,389 | 120,000 | |
| South Carolina | 11 | 1,012 | 84 | 3 | 82 | 51,235 | 416,205 |
| Tennessee | 3 | 1,061 | 78 | 33 | 45 | 103,305 | 733,058 |
| Texas | 4 | 363 | 23 | 23 | 10,364 | 42,000 | |
| Virginia | 11 | 1,685 | 256 | 147 | 109 | 321,660 | 4,414,459 |
| Northern States | 11 | 472 | 70 | 6 | 64 | 57,309 | 759,100 |
UTICA INSTITUTE, UTICA, MISSISSIPPI.
The upper figure shows building in which the school began, the lower, the present main building. The school was founded in 1903 by W. H. Holtzclaw, the present principal. It now has buildings valued at almost $100,000. There are 27 teachers and over 300 pupils. The annual income is about $20,000 and the property is valued at over $160,000.
The number of pupils in attendance was 14,851, of whom 12,273 were elementary, 1,841 secondary, and 737 were collegiate and professional. The secondary courses are offered in twenty of the larger institutions. The collegiate and professional students are in Meharry Medical College, Fisk University and Atlanta University. Of the total attendance reported above, the 72 smaller schools have 4,404 pupils, of whom only 66 are secondary.