The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-02-23
SCHOOL
Growth of the City District is
Jumping Up by Leaps
and Bounds.
(By F. L. Burdette.)

80 VI sAS HN0hS
and especially for those living IN
the clarksburg school district, some
data as to the growth OF the schools
and Of school responsibility 10 the
community are herein given.
Fourteen years ago there were
two school buildings in the entire
district, the present Central school
building on Hewes street, and al
building for colored schools on
South Chestnut street. Since that
time there have been erected at
public expense a building of four
rooms at Point Comfort, one 0. six
rooms and assembly hall for colored
schools on Water street, one OF four
rooms at Alta Vista, the Garlic
building of eight rooms on Maple
ayenue, the Pierpont building of
eight rooms on West Pike street. a
two room building at the Monticello
brick works, and one of four rooms
just now completed at stealey
Heights. These buildings were
erected at different times as the
growth of the school population de-
manded and public revenues would
permit. During most of the time
other houses than these school
buildings owned by the public were
rented to take care of the overflow.
Dwelling houses. store rooms, parts
of churches and rooms over places
OF business have been rented. and
these were at best poorly adapted
to the use of schools, and were gen
orally unsatisfactory. At present
eleven rented rooms and eight i'm
provised Offices and divided school
rooms are in use.
The nlmber of pupils in actual at
tendance for each of the last four
teen years was as follows:
1869, cas-; 1898, 7o7;
1ssS-ss. 72s; 10000, 7s6; 1900
o., sos; 1sol-o2s ,o41; 1sO2-os,
1924; 10000, 1,47s;- 1so4-O5,
lib; lsO5-oS.i et4a2; 10000.
l'so2; -1so7-0s, 1893; l9cs-os,
1881; 1s0s-1o, 2.T5O; 191o-l1, to
date, 2,SoS. From this data twill
oe observed that the increase in at
tendance in fourteen years was
1,eS5, an average of 11s per year;
the increase for! tho last ten years
was LAZY, and average of 1897 per
year; and the increase during the
last fiye years was s7l, an average
of TIA per year 5ss
+ The enumeration Of. youth Hstween
the ages OF and ri years f6r the
year 1862, fourteen years ago,
was LAB, that of 10000, ten
years ago. was 1865 THAT Of 1905
Jog, five years ago. was .2,14S; that
OF 1s09-10.i the last. endfmeration
one year ago, was 2.s48. This shows
in thirteen years an increase in
children of school age of 1900; in
nine years an increase of 1878;
md during the four years prior to
March, 1910, an. increase OF 7s5.
In 1s96-97 there were fifteen
school rooms in the c!arks5urg
school district, each in charge OF a
teacher. During the present school
year, 1s1o-11, there are So teachers
each in charge of a room; but two
of the number have only halliday
sessions owing to there not being
enough rooms to accommodate ain
the teachers with their pupils: In
addition TO the So teachers in charge
CT rooms there are now three spe-.
cial supervisors, whose work is gen
eral throughout the district.
In 1895 the assessed value Of
property for taxation was $1,000
26s; in 1900 it was s2.17S,s48; in
1895 1t was $4,473,166; in 1910 hi
was s16,sO2, 900. JAS provided in
the special act for the ClarksDurg
school district passed in 1897, the
school board was empowered to levy
for all school purposes not to exceed
75c on the one hundred dollars
valuation. AZ present the possible
school :ailcs arc regrla;> W tha'
provigcns of the new tax laws en-
acted in 1908.