Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register

[377] reported the amount of valuation, the number of children between the ages of three and seventeen years, and the duration of the schools in each of the five districts before described,—12 months of school taught by a female being reckoned as equivalent to 4 4/5 months of a master's school.

District.	Valuation.	No. of Children.	Months.
1	1,290,245	350	16 4/5
2	141,340	80	5
3	630,395	362	16 4/5
4	359,535	298	16
5	725,662	557	16 4/5

An entirely new system¹ was adopted Oct. 6, 1834, when the town voted to abolish the five school districts, or to merge them into three Wards, namely, the first and second districts into Ward One; the third and fourth into Ward Two; and the fifth into Ward Three. The schools were graded, and designated as Grammar, Middle, and Primary, in each ward. It was ordered that schools should be maintained in the several Wards as follows: Ward One to be in two sections, of which the first should have one Grammar School, one Middle, and one Primary, and the second, schools equivalent to one female school for the whole year; Ward Two should have one Grammar School, one Middle, and three Primary; Ward Three should have one Grammar School, one Middle, and one Primary. In addition to these a High School was established in 1839 for the whole town.² In this school since 1854, has been given the instruction contemplated in the will of Governor Edward Hopkins, who died in England in 1657, namely, ‘to give some encouragement in those Foreign Plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youth in a way of learning, both at the Grammar School and College, for the service of the Country in future times.’ Five hundred pounds of his donation were assigned to the College and School in Cambridge. ‘Three fourths of the income of this estate,’