Amount of current expenses, exclusive of houses and furniture, $291,526 58

Average of expense for each pupil, exclusive of books &c.,
Average expense of books and stationery to each pupil,

.

The Statistics of the Public Schools for the year ending Dec. 31st, 1860, are as follows:

Population of the First School District, in 1860,

Total number of Pupils, boys,

568,034

32,486)

31,044) Total, 63,530 80

1,117 Total, 1,197

girls and Normal School,

335

550

340

11,353

and

51,287

$512,014.16

337,603.07

26,534.73

41,619.74

16,492.25

4,754.41

$22,679.98

8,711.15

38.52

PLAN AND DESCRIPTION OF JEFFERSON GRAMMAR SCHOOL-HOUSE IN

PHILADELPHIA.

Jefferson Grammar School is located in Fifth-street above Poplar, and was erected in 1836. The lot is 100 feet on the street, and 120 feet deep, and the space not occupied by the building and the walks, is planted with the choicest shrubs and flowers, which are kept in beautiful condition by the teacher and pupil. For these, the fountain, and other embellishments, the children and the public owe a large debt of gratitude to Daniel S. Beideman Esq., who has thus introduced a new element of physical, moral, esthetical education into the public schools of this section of the city.

The children of the school exhibit a commendable pride in taking care of the grounds, and in protecting the shrubbery, flowers, and other embellishments from the depredations of the "outside barbarians." The influence, direct and indirect, of these decorations, and of the daily care and interest in their preservation by the pupils, was soon manifest in their improved manners and tastes, and in the improved habits of the whole neighborhood. And why can not every city schoolhouse, even when located in the most crowded neighborhood, have its plat of flowers, and its attractions of verdure and foliage, if it must be on a small scale, and if no other place can be afforded, on the walls of the inclosures? Why inay not a vase of flowers always adorn the table of the teacher, and bust of orator, poet, patriot, and philanthropist, fill, each its appropriate nich around the school-room? As has been justly remarked by Mrs. Sigourney, in a valuable "Essay on the Cultivation of the Beautiful in Common Schools"-the expense of such decorations will not be thrown away, the beautiful objects will not be defaced, and the fair scenery will not be desecrated. It will be easier to enforce habits of neatness and order among objects whose taste and value make them worthy of care, than amid that parsimony of apparatus and adornment, whose pitiful meanness operates as a temptation to waste and destroy.

The building is 100 feet by 50, and three stories high. Each story is divided into one large school-room, with four class rooms in connection. The first story is occupied by a Primary School; the second, by the girls department of the Gramma School, and the third, by the boys' department.