1st Commissioners' District 0,767

2d " " 12,884

3d " " 10,!l9ii

The average attendance in the county was 9,440, di

Tided as follows :

Ist Commissionei's' Distnct ,

2d " " 4,110

3d •' " 3,453

The School Commissioners are for the,--

l.st Di.'trict Jared Sauford

2d " James B, Lockwood

3d " John \V. Wttel, Peekskill

The citj' of Yonkers being a separate commissioners district, is accordingly not included in the above calculation.

The number of children of school age residing in the district of Yonkers, at the beginning of 1885, was seven thousand three hundred and sixty-two ; of these one thoiLsand five hundred and thirty-nine attended private schools and two thousand nine hundred and forty-eight the public schools. Yonkers has thirteen private .schools and seven public school buildings; one of which is built of frame and six of brick.

In the couiitj'^ towns there are forty-six private schools, with a total membership of four thousand and thirteen pupils.

Of the one hundred and fifty-four school buildings in the county at the present time (1885) one hundred and twenty-two are built of frame, twenty-eight of brick and four of stone.

The county school libraries contain twenty-seven thousand two hundred and twenty-one volumes, valued at nineteen thousand one hundred and twentyfour dollars. The Yonkers library, three thousand one hundred and fifty volumes, valued at thirty -eight hundred dollars.'

According to the annual report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for 1886 Westchester County has ninety-one children over five and under twenty one years of age, for each qualified teacher; forty-eight children attending school any portion of the year for each qualified teacher; twenty-eight children the average daily attendance for each teacher; 30.76 per cent, of average daily attendance on whole number of children between five and twenty-one years of age, and 58.33 per cent, of average daily attendance on whole number of children attending school any portion of the year.