With the improvement in the school system has come a better style of school-houses. The "little red school-house on the hill" has given place to buildings of tasteful architecture, with modern improvements conducive to the comfort and health of the scholars, and the refining influences of neat surroundings is beginning to be understood. Separate schools are maintained for colored pupils and graded schools sustained at populous places. With free schools, able teachers consecrated to their calling, and fair courses of instruction; with a people generous in expenditures for educational purposes, and a cooperation of parents and teachers; with the many educational periodicals, the pedagogical books, and teachers' institutes to broaden and stimulate the teacher, the friends of education in Loudoun may labor on, assured that the new century will give abundant fruitage to the work which has so marvelously prospered in the old. _Total Receipts of School Funds for the Year Ending July 31, 1908._ (From report of Division Superintendent of Schools.) From State funds $13,968 92 " County school tax 12,355 38 " District school tax 14,640 82 " All other sources 322 30 " Balance on hand August 1, 1907 6,644 60 ---------- Total $47,931 97 _Total expenditures_ 42,788 58 ---------- _Balance on hand August 1, 1908_ $5,143 39 _School population, Number of Schools, Enrollment and Attendance by Races and Districts, 1906-1907._ (From report of State Superintendent of Schools.) ----------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+------ | School | No. of | Whole number | | Population. |Schools opened.| enrolled. | Districts. +------+--------+------+--------+------+--------+Total. |White.|Colored.|White.|Colored.|White.|Colored.| ----------------+------+--------+------+--------+------+--------+------ Broad Run | 748 | 228 | 19 | 4 | 538 | 131 | 669 Jefferson | 619 | 216 | 15 | 4 | 446 | 196 | 642 Leesburg | 381 | 143 | 9 | 3 | 358 | 107 | 465 Lovettsville | 614 | 34 | 13 | 1 | 498 | 24 | 522 Mercer | 628 | 482 | 15 | 7 | 467 | 277 | 744 Mt. Gilead | 695 | 457 | 16 | 6 | 493 | 231 | 724 Town of Leesburg| 255 | 130 | 6 | 3 | 196 | 121 | 317 |------+--------+------+--------+------+--------+------ Total |3,940 | 1,690 | 93 | 28 |2,996 | 1,087 |4,083 ----------------+------+--------+------+--------+------+--------+------ _Religion._