Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-09-23
LOCAL SCHOOLS
HAVE ENTERED
ON BEST YEAR
ATTENDANCE CLOSE TO 1900
Problem to Provide Proper
Seating Accommodations

When the close of the first week If
the present school year came yester-
day afternoon, it showed a record that
has never been surpassed and hardly
equalled in the history of the city
schools.
The enrolment of the first week ag-
gregated, as Superintendent Miller's
records show, SIT pupils in the city
schools. This shows a net increase
of 1872 pupils over the same figures for
the opening week of last year, at which
time $40 pupils were in attendance.
Tracing this comparison further, it
is discovered that at the opening of
the present week there were, ndwith-
standing the fact that the registration
books had been kept open two weeks
in advance of tho regular opening of
school, but 500 pupils in attendance,
80 that fourteen new pupils have come
in during the week after all efforts
had been made to get every student
present the first day, At the close If
the last school year there were but
1872 pupils in attendance, while the
enrolment of the first week this year
shows 35 pupils more than at. the close
of the last school year.
This fact leads Superintendent Mil
Ter to believe that the close of the
present year will see the enrolment as
high, if not higher than, 900 This IS
getting pretty close to the thousand
mark, and shows the growth of Amer
icus as regards it's schools and It's
general population more eloquently
perhaps than any other public enter
prise SO rapid has been the growth,
in fact, that it has brought the school
management face to face with weighty
problems as regards the seating and
proper disposal of the unusually large
surplus of pupils that have entered the
schools during the first week of the
session.
The problem of seating the pupils
at the schools has been a difficult one
so far this year. Superintendent Mil
ler recently ordered fifty new desks
by telephone, so as to have them here
at the earliest possible time for the
accommodation of pupils. He is ex-
,pecting them to arrive any day, rs
they are badly needed now. They Will
be placed in the various rooms to ac-
commodate pupils who are now max
ing the best of things by using chairs
or other means for desks.
The superintendent has been kept
busy during the week shifting grades
so as to utilize all available space for
the increased enrolment. The rooms
at the grammar school are far too
small to accommodate such attend
ance as the school now has, as they
were designed for grades that had only
about 80 or 35 pupils to the grade
1t will require some time to arrange
these matters so as to give all pupils
comfortable and proper seats.
A most gratifying fact is the i'll
creased enrolment in the high school
from the country near Americas. The
fame of the Americus High School has
spread far and wide, as the splendid
records made at Fitzgerald last spring
gave it still more publicity than it had
enjoyed before. In this way the stu
dents of high school age in the section
around Americus may now enjoy the
excellent advantages afforded by the
high curriculum and competent iu-
struction that the high school affords
now as at no time in it's former his
tory.