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HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.P. American 09/30/1948 (2)"~• ~ Iaocal ~c~hoo~ Increase + ~r--'One Hu>lxdred Percenit~ . fF ue i ,. ~ he ~ Enrollment in the Central Point ; f ns 'schools has continued to climb since z ag the opening day and lias reached ~ ~ rc fan all time high of 761. Elementary Ii 'enrollment is577 and the high school ~ f d-_~enrallmanL-is--new-...I84:.. -T-h1s--verre-.~ P a senLs an over all increase of better ~ a than one hundred per cent in Pive ' ; m Years since the m•ollment the• open= ' ~ IC ing ,seek of 1943 was only 370. It I also. represents an eighty per cent v ~e•;increasQ in the last three years. The a 1~ ent•ollmen~. thy. opening we©k , of D er ~ 1945- was 420. As was exji~it~@~l the er ~ heaviest increase Was in the first i an grade where the :enrollment is now c 109. The percentag>§ uP increase in ` r- the first grade in the last three o- ,years has been two hundred per d. cent as the em•ollment in 1945 was I: r- only 36 in the first grade. Ofher elementary grades have of course ~ st felt a corresponding increase as the L •s• first graders move up the line, to i+ ,•_ other grades. Thv incroased om•oil. P s, menu has made necessary tkte en- ' a tt largement of Lhe teaching staff to C st meet state standards and thirty- tl ~s. ~ three teachers are now employed. Y s. in an Offort to keep up with the a s• 'growing population new buildings b ,t, .have been added to the point where r dt there are now eleven buildings rc- tl squiring the services of three janf- it +a 'tors. Transportation has been e 1~ added and three buses are operated f si ~ by the district. + a Recognizing the increased admi-~a nistrative problems which have come with the size of the district s~ ibeing right on the verge oP become f. ?, ring a first class district, Lhat is, one F y, (with 1000 children on the school o. n .census, the school board at its last n `meeting approved the appointment o t lof Mr. Alton Schol[er to the position a d of high school principal, and H. P- ' Jewett to full time administrativ~• d n ~ duties as superintendent. Mr. C. A. e .Meyer will continue as elemenL~u•y ; a princtpardea-Ling-witfi tTie amts- d itrative problems of "the greatly tn= creased elementary em•oIlmeni. i C.P. American