School Tuition
The Board of Trustees offered different branches of education to the pupils and for each branch they also charged a different rate of tuition. Tuition ranged from $12 per annum for the basic education consisting of spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic to the high of $40 for all courses of study available, including language courses (1811). These charges were independent of house rent and firewood charges for each scholar which were 75 cents per annum in 1811 and which were formally abolished in 1857. Parents or guardians were expected to pay for the number of pupils entered-or a proportional rate if the student began attending the Academy after the session had already commenced. Exceptions to the charges for tuition, house rent, and fuel were those "children of parents unable to pay due to their circumstances"(30); children of stockholders-one pupil per quarter free of charge for every share of stock held in the Academy (1811); "young men who were preparing for Divinity" (31); and students selected to receive gratuitous educations in order to fulfill the requirement of the States donation to the Academy (1834).
30 "Articles of Association," Brookeville Academy Minute Book, Vol. 1, 1810-1831, Montgomery County Historical Society Library.
31 Brookeville Academy Catalogue, 1834, see E. Guy Jewell, A History of the Brookeville Academy, (Rockville, Maryland: unpublished manuscript). |
