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

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

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.

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.

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1938-1948: Arranged by type of school then chronologically by school year, then alphabetically by city, village or school name.

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