ACADEMIES. A catalogue of the Academies reporting to the Regents of the University in 1845, with the towns or incorporated villages, and counties in which they are established; taken from the Regents' Annual Report, dated March 1, 1845. NAMES OF ACADEMIES. TOWN. COUNTY. First District. Erasmus Hall Academy,... Grammar School of the University of Flatbush, Kings. Grammar School of Col. College,... City of New-York. New-York. the city of New-York,. New-York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb,...... Rutgers Female Institute,. Total,........ 5 Second District. Amenia Seminary,. Astoria Institute,. Chester Academy,. Clinton Academy,. Farmers' Hall Academy, Dutchess County Academy, Hempstead Seminary,. Kingston Academy,.. Montgomery Academy,. Mount Pleasant Academy,. Newburgh Academy, New Paltz Academy,. North Salem Academy, Peekskill Academy,. Poughkeepsie Female Academy, Rhinebeck Academy,.. Ridgebury Academy,. Union Hall Academy, Walkill Academy, ....... Westtown Academy, Third District. North Salem,.... Westchester. Peekskill,......... Poughkeepsie, do .... Dutchess. do Orange. Queens. Orange. do Westown, Delaware Literary Institute,. Greenbush & Schodack Academy,... Greenbush, Franklin, Rensselaer. Rensselaer. Schenectady Lyceum and Academy,. Schenectady city,.. Schenectady. Schoharie Academy,.. ....... Schoharie, ...... Schoharie. Rensselaer. do Montgomery. Saratoga. St. Lawrence. Washington. Herkimer. Fulton. Clinton. Fulton. Essex. St. Lawrence. Clinton. St. Lawrence. Saratoga. Oneida. Jefferson. Otsego. Oneida. do do Oswego. Otsego. Otsego. The whole number of Academies on the preceding list is 146, being only such as were reported to the Regents conformably to law. There are 25 others, not so reported, making the whole number in the state 171, subject to the visitorial authority of the Regents. The 25 are the Oyster Bay, Piermont, Redhook, Sullivan County, and White Plains academies, and the Poughkeepsie Classical School, in the 2d district; Clermont, Coxsackie, and Schenectady academies, and the Schenectady Young Ladies' Seminary, in the 3rd District; Little Falls, Essex county, and Fort Covington academies, in the 4th District; Bridgewater, and Steuben academies, De Lancey Institute, De Ruyter Institute, and Oneida Institute, in the 5th District; Palmyra High School, Yates County Academy, and Female Seminary, in the 7th District; Alexander Classical School, Batavia Female Academy, Gaines Academy, and Seward Female Seminary in the 8th District; and the Jefferson Academy, which sent in a defective report. Since March 1, 1844, three academies have been incorporated by the Regents, viz: one at Little Falls, one at Nunda, and one, incorporated by the legislature, at Macedon Centre, in Wayne county, has placed itself under the visitation of the Regents, to entitle itself to share in the Literature Fund. The sum annually distributed from the Literature Fund among the academies, is $40,000, or $5,000 to each of the eight districts. The following abstract shows the whole number of students for the last three years, in all the reporting academies, during the year ending with the term nearest to the 1st of January; the whole number attending for that term; the whole number claimed as classical students, or as pursuing the higher branches in English, and the whole number allowed as such. The first statement, viz. the whole number during the year, is now for the first time reported, under a recent requisition of the Regents: No. during year. No. at report term. Claimed. 1843,. 1844, 1845,. ...... 22,782 12, 142 11,581 11,802 Allowed. 11,374 11,277 11,669 11,596 12,279 12, 257 Of the whole number claimed, for the last year, 6,519 were males, and 5,760 females. The proportions were not greatly different, for the two preceding years. Of the apportionment of $5,000 to the academies of each district, the ratio, calculated according to the number of students respectively, for the last year, was as follows: 1st district, $6.53; 2d district, $4.23; 3d district, $3.04; 4th district, $2.62; 5th district, $3.03; 6th district, $3.10; 7th district, $3.08; 8th district, $2.67. If the apportionment had been made for all the academies without reference to districts, the ratio per student would have been $3.26 nearly. The following table exhibits the aggregate endowments and debts of the reporting academies, by districts. From the Regents' Annual Report, da. ted March 1, 1845. DISTRICTS. PERMANENT ENDOWMENTS. Value of Value of Value of Other aca-Debts due Academy library. apparatus. demic pro- by Acade. lot & build perty. my. $2,676 $11,282 $1,186 159,328 7,146 5,645 16,027 42,709 3d do 179,446 8,789 9,589 31,782 15,678 4th do 115,270 7,690 7,852 20,497 23,685 27,259 14,864 118,620 6,768 7,496 65,738 29,010 128,754 7,092 6,511 15,053 17,165 $989,602 $57,034 $53,115 $238,337 $171,556 The total value of all the endowments and property of all kinds, is $1, 338,088. |