Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-11-14
BOISE HIGH
DOES NOT LEAD
Facts and Figures Regarding HIsh
School Attendance sns In-rezse
Reveals the Fact That Payette's
Record Lays eoise's Proud Boost
Low.

On NoTember 18th tnere appeared
in the Daily Statesman an aTtieie
under the head OF Pose is Leader
Iof Whole Country. which quot ng
figures from the report made by
Superintendent Eeek TO the board
Of education had the following to
say:
Superintendent Meek reported at
the schocI board meeting last eye--
ing that the Boise high school out
ranked any school in the United
States in its increase OF school en-
roIlnant, for while the school en-
rollment had increased only z5 pe-
c1zt in the last few years the high
school enrolment had increased 100
poT cent At the present tine lit
tie over one-fifth Of the entire school
enrolment is in the high school New
ton, Mass, boasted, Mr.. Meek sai5,
Of having the best record. vita
exactly one-fifth OF tie enrolment N
the high school. Bo.se going q lite
over. Where As gzaiuated from tie
high school four years ago 100 VII
graduate this year This splendid re
cord was due. 8lr. Meek said, TO the
excellent industrial activities furnish
ed by the board"
Knowing the difficulty to ELicS
Superintendent Turner and the BoIri
of Education have been put the last
few years 10 provide room Tor pupils
in Payette's High School. the read
ing OF the above proved interesting
and we sought Superintendent Turn
er N his office to get the figures re-
atiye 10 the increase in Fsyette's e.
rolInent We knew it must be mar
veIous almost but were certainly a.
most dumbfounded to learn when We
secured the figures that Fayettz's IL
crease vas far ahead OF the Boise in-
crease and along several different
lines was much better
When approached On the subie
Supt Turner said. I noticed the ar
ticIe and read it Sith considerable
interest and quite naturally began
20 compile some Lgur5s rsgsr5iag the /
increase in our own school Just to /
ascertain where we stood along the
same line
.Payette's total enrcllmsnt five
years ago was sss and niresy-three
q those were in the high school
Our total enrolment to5ay Is se3 and
OF these 2OI are in the high school
You will readily note by these fig
ares of comparison that in the five i
ysars our total enrolment has in
creased only % per cent as against
Boise's Increase in total enrolment
of 2s per cent and that oCr hish
school enrolment has increased 11e
per cent as against Boise's increase
of Ie0 per cent
-Pive years ago We graduated q
class of thirteen Last year thirty
seven An increase Of neariy zoe
per cent
another interesting fact is that
cur high school enrolment is divid-
ed evenly between boys and girls
Our gradual 'ng class Of 1911 was
composed of twelve hoEs and thir-
teen girls. Last year's class had
seventeen boys and twenty girls
Newton. Mass. has exactly one
hfrr OF its enrollment IN the High
Schcol. Boise has q little more
thar onefifth while Payette has
more than one fourth
.sof course in comparing these
figures 1 am assuming that the com
parison made BY Superintendent
Meek Of Boise was from study OF
cities the size of Boise and that
from that standpoint Boise is clear
ly entitled TO her claim Nevertheless
the Payette showing is good one
and 1 doubt it it is eSeelled or even
equaned BY any cities the size Of