Banks in Wisconsin numbered 623 June 3o, 1935, of which 106 were national banks. Their resources and liabilities totalled $823, 800,000 ; their capital, surplus and undivided profits were $m6, 200,000; deposits amounted to $713,800,000 of which
000 were in the nature of time or savings accounts.
Wisconsin's population of school age (5-17 in clusive) was 757,00o in the year 1934. Its public school enrol ment for the same year was 583,133 as compared with 564,022 in the year 1930 and 465,243 in 2920. Of the 1934 enrolment, 403, 230 pupils were in the elementary and 179,903 in the secondary grades. The average number of days attendance for the year was 157.4 as compared with 150.3 for 1930 and 138.9 for 1920. Enrol ment in private and parochial schools was 114,005 in
111, 289 in 1932; and 76,741 in 1920. In the year 1934 there were 20,399 public school teachers in the schools of the State whose average salary was $1,211—an increase in the number of teachers from 20,239 but a decrease in the salary figure from $1,399 in 1930. Expenditures for education in the State in 1934 amounted to $41,311,000 or $14.21 per capita of the total population. Of this amount, $29,635,401 was raised locally by the ordinary school tax, while the sum of $6,262,710 was contributed by the State and
was contributed by the counties in the form of aids. The elementary and secondary public school system is under the supervision of the State department of education, headed by the State superintendent elected for four years.
The State maintains nine normal schools which, listed in the chronological order of their establishment, are situated at Platte ville, Whitewater, Oshkosh, River Falls, Milwaukee, Stevens Point, Superior, La Crosse and Eau Claire. All now offer courses ranging from one to four years and grant the bachelor's degree to graduates of the four-year course. They are administered by a board of normal school regents composed of eleven members in cluding the superintendent of Public Instruction ex officio. By act of the 1911 legislature, Stout institute, located at Menomi nee, was taken over by the State and is now supported as a training school for vocational teachers. It is administered by the
State board of vocational education. The University of Wis consin (q.v.) is the highest of the State educational institutions.
It is estimated that there are about 115,00o pupils of grade and high school rank in the private and parochial schools and academies. Of private institutions of collegiate rank the leading are Beloit college at Beloit, Carroll college at Waukesha, Lawrence college at Appleton, Milwaukee-Downer (for women) at Milwau kee, Milton college at Milton, Marquette university at Milwaukee, Northland college at Ashland, Ripon college at Ripon, and St. Norbert college at West De Pere.
The State board of control has under its control the State charitable, curative, correctional and penal institutions. It also directs the activities of other agencies related to the work of these institutions, such as the juvenile and probation departments, and has supervisory and inspectional pow ers with respect to county asylums for the insane, county tubercu lar sanatoria, county and city care of the poor, private child wel fare and child placing agencies, and gaols and lock-ups within the State. There are 17 State institutions under the management of this board, namely : State hospital for the insane at Mendota, Northern hospital for the insane at Winnebago, Central State hos pital for the criminal insane at Waupun, Wisconsin Psychiatric in stitute at Mendota, Northern Wisconsin colony and training school for the feeble-minded and epileptics at Chippewa Falls, Southern Wisconsin colony and training school for feeble-minded and epileptics at Union Grove, Wisconsin State sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis at Wales, State tuberculosis camp at Tomahawk lake, Industrial school for boys at Waukesha, Indus trial school for girls at Milwaukee, State reformatory (for males) at Green Bay, Industrial home for women at Taycheedah, State prison at Waupun, school for the blind at Janesville, workshop for the blind at Milwaukee, school for the deaf at Delavan and the State public school at Sparta.