Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-03
1883.
Total.......1880

| During the year 1878 the per cent oil
attendance, based on the average mum
Der belonging, was 50. During the year
1889 the per cent of attendance was
9O.5.
You will notice that the enrolment in
falling off. You will also notice that the
daily attendance in those places was
larger during 1889 than it was during
the previous year. The enrolment OF
the school at Blacktail is less this year
than last, because some of the pupils
came to the city to school.
The opening OF the primary room, in the
basement of the high school building, was a
great relief to the first primary in the Gen.
trail building and to the East Broadway
school. But those rooms need still further
relief, as they are yet too full. The average
daily attendance in the primary room in
Meadertille has been 70 during the year.
This is too large a number for any teacher,
and especially when she has two grades.
The first primary in Centerville has been
crowded to Overlooking the entire year.
The average daily attendance has been IS,
but many times the number OF pupils pres
emit exceeded 100. There are enough pri-
mary pupils in South Butte to occupy the
entire N e OF one teacher.
In order to remove the pressure from
these rooms and make these departments
of the school more efficient !, would respect
fully make the following suggestions:
l. A primary room opened in the neigh
borhood OF the Parrot smelter would re-
lieve the East Broadway school, besides
giving In opportunity to a number of
children to attend who have not been able
to go to school on account of the distance.
2. The opening of a room for the second
and third grades in South Butte would be
a great convenience to the people in that
part OF the district. 1t is too far to send
children OF the age of those in the second
and third grades from South Butte to the
Central building.
3. 1t would be well, when the addition to
the school house in Centerville is made, to
add two rooms and employ an additional
teacher.
4. In no part of the district is q school
house so much needed as in Meaderville,
Ii the school population increases there
as it did last year, an additional teacher
will be needed in that place also.
5. In view OF the TACT hat the part of
the city lying east Of Arizona street is
filling up 80 rapidly, would it not be wiser
to select some site convenient to South
Butte, the Parrot smelter and the Legpat
q Foster addition, aHd erect a building
In which Jour or five grades could be &C.
moda This would do away with
the necessity OF adding to the South
Butte school house, the building, the
single primary near the Parrot
smelter, and the third room in the Meader.
vile school house. Tt would also relieve
the intermediate grades in the Central
building, where, il the numbers increase. the
rooms cannot hold the pupils. Quite a
number OF pupils come from the eastern
part OF the city to the Central building. who
would be much nearer the new school
nouse The pupils from South Butte would
not 60 more than hall as far as thew %
now, and the fourth and 9th grades from
Meaderville would find it much more con-
venient than going all the way to the Cen.
trai building. 1t could easily be ar.
ranged for three teachers to take the five
would augsest bore that the High |
building, tha Central building ana
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