The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-20
LOCAL MATTERS.
OPENING or THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS



The next scholastic year Of the public
schools Of the city Of Richmond commences
on the first of October. The City School
Board has rearr,nged the school boundaries
as stated below. 1t must be observed, how
ever, that the Madison-Street school-house
(First dStrict) will not be opened until after
the first Of November. In the mean time
the scholars in the First district will be ac-
commodated at the Cherry-street group of
four schools, two schools on Grace street be-
TIVE III Second and Third, and two at the cor
ner of Main aud First streets. The princi
pal of this district will have his headquarters
ut the corner of Maiu and First streets,
where the pupils will report on the morning
of the lst Of October.
The new school.house ut Rockets, which
will be known rs the Nicholson school, is
substantial two.story brick building, hereto
fore owned by II. W. Tyler, and used as q
dwclling-house. 1t will be ready for occu-
patton on the 1st of October. -Four addl-
'iona schools will be opened In the Baker.
Street building If necessary.
The following statement of boundaries OF
the several districts should be preserved hy
parents and guardians for future reference:
WHITE SCHOOLS.
First District Madison school, corner of
Cary and Madison streets, commencing mt
the corporation line at the western end Of
Broad street, thence along centre line Of
Broad street to Fourth street; along centre
line of Fourth to Cary street; along centre
line of Cary street to Sixth street thence
south to the corporation line.
Second District: Leigh school, corner
First and Leigh streets; Brook Avenue
school, coruer Brook avenue and Clay
| street Clay school, Clay between First and
| Fo,Shee Streets--cnn!nencing at the western
| line of the corporation; thence along centre
| line of Broad street TO Fourth street; thence
| south along centre line of Fourth street to
| Cary street thence east along centre line Of
Cary street to Sixth street; thence north on
| the centre line of Sixth street to the corpo-
! ration liner~-
Third District: Central school, Twelfth
and Clay streets, commencing on the corpora
| tion line north at Sixth street; thence south
along the centre line Of Sixth street to tie
corporation line thence east along the cor
! poraton line to Fifteenth street; thence
north along the centre line Of Fifteenth
street to Main street thence west embra-
cling both sides OF Main street to Mayo street !;
thence north embracing both sides of Mayo
street to Broad street {; thence west enbr-
cling both sides OF Broad street to Fourteenth
or College street; thence north embracing
both sides of College street to the line Of the
Chesapeake aud Ohio railroad thence along
| the line OF the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
to the corporation line.
| Fourth District Bethel school, Twentieth
| between Main and Cary streets, commencing
on the south corporation line at Fifteenth
| ha n
Fifteenth street to the line of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad thence northwest along
| the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad to the cor
poration line; thence east along the corpora
| tiOn line to Nineteenth street; thence south
along centre line Of Nineteenth street 10 Main
street; thence east embracing both sides Of
! Main street to Twenty-seventh street thence
south along the line of Twcnty-seveuth street
to the corporation line.
Fifth District: Bellevue school, corner
| Twcnty-Second and Broad streets; Masonic
Hall school, Twenty-tifth street beween
| NJ and n, commencing at the northeast cor
ner of Main and Nineteenth streets; along
the centre line Of Nineteenth street north TO
the corporation line, and embracing all of
Union and Church Hills within the corporate
limits.
Sixth District Nicholson school, Nichol.
son street Rockets, embracing all that por-
| ton of the corporation limits east of Twenty
seventh street. and not embraced in Union
and Church Hills.
CoLoRED SCHOOLS.
FIRST District Baker school, corner
| Baker and st. Paul streets. embracing all
the corporate limits west of the centre line
| OF Fourth street.
Second District: Navy-Hill school, Sixth
and Duval streets, Twelfth and Leigll-Street
school, embracing all the corporate limits
between the centre line of Fourth and Four
| teenth streets.
| Third District: Valley school, Marshall
and Fourteenth streets, New-Street school,
New street, Springficld-Hal school, corner
Twenty and NJ streets. embracing all
| the corporate limits east of the centre line of
Fourteenth street.
The first session of the Richmond Public
High School will commence on the lst
proXimo, like the other public schools. IL
| will be located for the present in the build
ing fronting Broad and Capitol streets, be-
tween Ninth and Tenth, and will occupy the
whole of the second floor. Applicants (malc
and fctnale) for admission will present them
selves for examination ut the lllgh-Schooi
rooms next Tuesday morning at O'Clock.
| The examination will embrace orthography,
reading, English grammar, composition,
arithmetic, descriptive geography, ana HIS
tory of United States. Pupils promoted
from the first and advanced grammar grades
will be received without further eXamlna-
ton.