New York State Education Department Bureau of Statistical Services Annual Reports of Vocational Schools A3049

New York State Education Department Bureau of Statistical Services Annual Reports of Vocational Schools

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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:

School districts operated many kinds of vocational schools, including general industrial, trade or technical, homemaking, continuation, evening vocational, agriculture, mechanical arts, apprentice training, and occupational extension schools. The reports of these schools provide information on teachers, subjects taught, enrollment, and sometimes individual students.

Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of Statistical Services

Title:

Annual reports of vocational schools

Quantity:

13 cubic feet

(89 volumes)

Inclusive Dates:

1911-1948

Series Number:

A3049

Arrangement

1911-1938: chronological by school year, then by type of district, then alphabetical by name of city, village or school.

Scope and Content Note

These volumes contain annual reports of various kinds of vocational schools including general industrial, trade or technical, practical arts or homemaking, part-time or continuation, evening vocational, agriculture, mechanical arts, arts and crafts, apprentice training, occupational extension, and vocational community schools. These schools were operated by city (including New York City), village, union free, and central school districts. The format of and information in these reports changes frequently during the period. Generally, the reports give information concerning: teachers (name, license type, subjects taught, number of days and hours per day taught, salary); and pupils (number of males and females registered, aggregate and average daily attendance). For the period 1911-1914 reports also contain information concerning: buildings (number devoted to vocational training); and property values of buildings, sites, and various types of equipment.

Reports of agricultural and home-making schools/departments, 1916-1937: separate reports of agricultural and homemaking schools or departments also give students' names, first and last dates of attendance, and total number of days attendance. After 1939 separate reports of homemaking departments were discontinued, but those of agricultural departments continued through 1948.

Non-agricultural vocational school reports, 1938-1941: provide information on specific courses or programs of study: name of course, length in years, and number of males and females registered.

Vocational education administration reports, 1940-1946: separate reports of each district concerning vocational education administration give information pertaining to: director of vocational industrial education (name, kinds of schools administered, license type, time spent, salary); supervisors of vocational industrial education (same information, substituting industrial subjects supervised for schools administered); principals of vocational industrial schools (same information); advisory board (members' names, addresses, occupations, expiration date of appointment, number of meetings held, and names of committees); and equipment and supplies expenditures of each school.

Related Material

Information on individual schools and school districts from this series along with data from Series A3046, Abstracts of School District Trustee Reports

A3048, Annual Financial and Statistical Reports of Normal Schools

B0555, Annual Financial and Statistical Reports of Private and Parochial Schools (Academies)

and 13638, Annual Financial and Statistical Reports of School Districts, were used to compile the tables in Series 14196, Financial and statistical data tables.