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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
ncrease in numbers or wealth in the town. Medford partook so fully of the new enthusiasm for the improvement of its schools, that in 1853 it stood twelfth on the list of towns in the county, and twenty-fifth in the Commonwealth; paying, at that time, $6.04.7 per head for each child in town between the ages of five and fifteen. 1840: The age at which pupils were admitted to the primary schools was four years; and they could not remain in the grammar schools after they were sixteen. April 3, 1843: Voted to build a schoolhouse, in High Street, upon land bought of John Howe. This house was to be sixty feet by forty; three stories high; of wood, with brick basement; and its cost limited to $4,500,--to be called the High School. The Course of Study in the High School shall embrace four years, and be as follows:-- class 4. 1.Review of preparatory studies, using the text-books authorized in the Grammar Schools. 2.English Grammar, to the completion of Syntax and Prosody, inc