The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-06-08
BOARDS OF TRADE
RECORD IS GOOD

without the earnest co-operatton
on the Part Of the press o, the city.
the board OF trade could not have.
made the progress that has charac-
terized its efforts since organizing. !
More Buildings Needed.
F. L. Burdette, superintendent sfI
the city schools, and chairman of
the boards committee on ed
ucation, made the following
report concerning educational prog
ress and conditions in the city:
THE work Of the schools in the
city and district of Clarksburg dur
ing the last year has been up to the
usual standard, due to the untlrIng
efforts Of a trained corps OF
teachers and the constant support
and encouragement of an interested
school board.
You will agree that the best Of
new things, and complete accommo-
dation and equipment for schools,
usually follow an awakening in bust
ness and prosperity. This has been
and is now true in Clarksburg. 1t
has not been possible to make avail
able the resources of the city and
district as rapidly as the increase OF
population and broader scope for
schools demand.
Ten years ago there were 1856
youth of school age in the district.
In March of the year 1911, there
were 1896, an increase of 1881 in,
/ ten years. The year following any
years enumeration, about eighty
per cent of the youth numbered is
in attendance in the schools. Ac-
cording to that reckoning, there
should be 2,796 pupils in attendance
in the schools next year, for whose
instruction eighty teachers would
be needed, allowing thirty-fve to
each teacher. The year just past
there were 2,4OO pupils in attend
ance, out of an enumeration of o.
943, as shown in March, 1910. For
1.-THE instruction of these 2,4OO pupils
sixty-six teachers were employed.
/ The school district OF Clarksburg
owns eight buildings, in which are
only forty-seven rooms. In these
forty-seven rooms there we're about
1850 children in attendance dur
ing the year, or an average of forty
/ to the room. The average per room
should not exceed thirty, or ten less
than were actually in attendance,
4, or 470 pupils more than should have
been assigned in all the regular
buildings.
Nm addition to the forty-seven
rooms in the buildings named, nine
teen other rooms we're either rented
or improvised in offices, ETC., as
school buildings. IN Which were as
signed 519 other pupils. In all
there were $50 more pupils in at
tendance than the regular buildings
should accommodate. The coming
year will surely increase that at
tendance by several hundred, while
, at present there is no definite plan
for relief. Statutory limitations on
levies. the delay till October or No
vember in collection OF the taxes
for year, ETC., are among the many
causes for insufficient provisions for
school support. For the year 1910
II the assessed value of property in
the district was $16,S35, 900, for the
year 1911-12 it, will probably be
much more.
'gDhe schools are congested in
every quarter of the city. The needs
flor another building in the East
End or Garlic district, in Alta
Vista and BROAD Oaks, and the
western part of the city for grades,
are pressing. The central part of
the city Is no less congested, and
unless some plan is adopted to re-
store the use OF the Central school
building for grades. an additional
building will be needed in that
quarter also.
High School Building.
"At present the High school is
provided with meager and insufIic-
lent quarters in the Central build
ling. Little progress in new and
improved lines can be made until
the High school is taken from this
building. intended and adapted for
grades, and placed in new build
ling properly constructed for High
school use. The demand for such a
school in the community is great;
and the foundation already laid in
that line is satisfactory and too val
liable to be allowed to deteriorate.
| From the 26S students now in at
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