| AMERICAN CHURCH INSTITUTE AND THE EPISCOPAL BOARD OF MISSIONS. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| States | Number of Schools | Counted Attendance | Teachers | Income for Current Expenses | Value of Property |
| Total | 24 | 2,988 | 176 | $118,526 | $628,743 |
| Alabama | 1 | 192 | 7 | 4,485 | 22,000 |
| Florida | 3 | 193 | 8 | 1,835 | 3,500 |
| Georgia | 5 | 685 | 38 | 18,204 | 66,500 |
| Mississippi | 1 | 121 | 5 | 2,514 | 5,000 |
| North Carolina | 5 | 640 | 39 | 30,069 | 211,500 |
| South Carolina | 4 | 607 | 15 | 3,976 | 12,000 |
| Tennessee | 1 | 32 | 4 | 1,182 | 4,000 |
| Texas | 1 | 73 | 4 | 2,500 | 25,000 |
| Virginia | 2 | 445 | 56 | 53,761 | 279,243 |
The Episcopal Board of Missions and the American Church Institute give aid to 24 schools, of which 10 are large institutions. On the basis of income one of the large schools has an income under $2,500, five have incomes between $2,500 and $5,000, two between $5,000 and $15,000, and two over $15,000. These four are St. Augustine’s School in North Carolina; Fort Valley School, in Georgia; St. Paul’s School, and Bishop Payne Divinity School in Virginia.
The total income of these schools is $118,536, of which $109,181 is for the ten “larger” institutions and $9,345 is for the fourteen “less important” schools. The total value of property is $628,734, of which $604,543 is the property of the larger institutions, and $24,200 is the property of the smaller schools. The larger institutions have an endowment of $106,835.
The total attendance comprises 2,988 pupils, of which 2,720 are elementary and 268 secondary. The fifteen students at Bishop Payne Divinity School are preparing for the Episcopal ministry. About a thousand of the pupils reported were in attendance at the “smaller” schools. The total number of teachers and workers is 176, of whom 12 are white and 164 are colored; 58 are men and 118, or 67 per cent., are women; and 118, or 68 per cent., are teachers of academic subjects.
VIEW OF ENTRANCE.
CAMPUS AND RECITATION HALL, KNOXVILLE COLLEGE, KNOXVILLE, TENN.
The leading school of the United Presbyterian Church. It was founded in 1875, by the Board of Freedmen’s Missions of that church. It has 30 teachers, 350 students and property valued at $175,000.
The proportion of colored workers is very large. Only St. Augustine’s and Bishop Payne Divinity School have any white officers or teachers. In addition to the scholars under the American Church Institute, the St. Michael’s School at Charlotte, North Carolina and the St. Phillip’s School, San Antonio, Texas, are among the important schools.
United Presbyterian Church.—The Board of Freedmen’s Missions of the United Presbyterian Church owns and maintains 15 schools for Negroes in the United States, of these eleven are rated as “more important,” and four as “less important.” While eleven schools are regarded as “important,” or essential parts of the educational activities of their community, the average income per school is only about six or seven thousand dollars a year. Knoxville College, with an income of $25,470, is the central institution of the system. The colored teachers of all these schools are largely prepared at Knoxville. The good work of this institution is seen in the high type of graduates who are employed in the smaller schools.