Excerpt from Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Charlestown: December, 1852 During the past year the Board voted to establish an in termediate school. It is sometimes the case that pupils of eight or ten years of age in the primary schools, who come from abroad without previous school advantages, and others from neglect or absence, are unable to keep up with their class but are too old to attend the primary schools and too little qualified to enter the grammar schools. It is the object of this school to receive such pupils, and qualify them for the grammar schools. This school will be kept in the new building on Winthrop street. With this exception, there has been no change of the organigation of the schools. As this school has not yet been Opened, there are now but three grades of schools, the Primartrammar, and High Schools twenty-seven primaries, eight grammar schools, and one high school. At the close of the October term, there were 2029 pupils in the primaries, 108 more, than in 1851 1330 pupils in the eight grammar schools, 118 more thah'in 1851; 94 in the high school, 18 more than in 1851. The total number of pupils in the schools is 3453; increase over last year; 204. As the expense of the schools is about $27, 000, it follows that the city pays about eight dollars a head for the instruction of its youth; and as the populat10n.1s be tween sixteen and seventeen thousand, it follows that one fifth of it consists of pupils in the schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.