001Welcome back to another episode of Harley's Fun Facts. Today, I'd like to thank Donna Blueball for her contribution to this month's fact. Mrs. Blueball provided us the 1928-1929 55th annual report for our city schools. This report highlights salaries uh and other costs associated with operating the schools, including utilities back in 1928. It also provided a list of students and staff and many interesting facts about the schools during that time. A couple facts I'd like to share with you from this report was the enrollment of the community schools of Frankfurt back in 1928. The enrollment was approximately 2,836 students. Compare that to today we have 2,864 students, just 26 students more. The class sizes back in 1928 were about 35 students per class. Compare that to today where we have about 25 students per class. The
002cost associated with the 89 teachers employed during 1928 was about $138,000 annually to support their salaries. To give you an idea, that means their salary was around $1,500 per year or an average of about $30 per week they were paid. Compare that to today with our 200 plus teachers at the community schools of Frankfurt. We spend about $1.1 million each year on their salary or an average of about $55,000 for an annual salary for our teachers here at Frankfurt. Energy costs were also quite different. The energy cost for water and lights as well as janitor materials back in 1928 all combined had an annual cost of about $5,500. Compare that to today. We expend about 72 to $78,000 per month, not per year, on just our electric bill. Quite the difference from 1928 to n
003to 2025. That's all I have for Farley Frankfurt fun facts. Have a great day, hot