Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1913-05-06
REMARKABLE GROWTH
Of DEM|NC SCHOOLS
Enrolment Is $50 This Term. As
Compared With 769 a Year
Ago, Says Report
HIGH SCHOOL MAKES A GAIN
Pupils Number 1903 and This Will Be
Added to When County STU
dents Register

a report submitted 10 the Board
OF Education by Superintendent }.
d. Taylor shows that n total Of $50
pupils were enrolled in the public
schools of Drming this year aS
against 1iiO The year before. The
High School numbered lOS pupil,
this year, "lghly-unr last wear. and
Sixty lone Two years ago. Eight are
graduating from the High School and
thirty-onr will hc promoted TO the
Freshman class il the years work
Is satisfactorily completed.
FEW MEXICAN PUPILS
OF the total enrolment. l75 are
Mexican children and only one is at
tending the High School. The Mex-
lean pupils are almost without excep-
tlon the children Of laborcrs. These
children are in separated classes.
for the reason that they have not
only to carry the required work, but
To learn the English language as well.
Their progress for the first few years
is comparatively slow and the greater
fall out before completing
the grammar school grades.
MODEL FARM
a feature Of n"Nt year, work will
he the maintenance of model farm
under charge of an expert agricul-
tuIist. The land and watcr has been
secured. II Is expected that he new
department will y, Of great assist
ancc to the farmers Of the valley who
have the problems Of new and com
plicated irrigation enterprise to solve.
The new Board If Education will
meet soon and - expected 10 take
the necessary steps 10 organize the
county high school and to equip it
for the enlarged curriculum and add
ed registration.
DEPARTMENTS
AT the present time all the depart
ments usually found in the high
schools of the city are represented
here. including, brsldco tho regular
courses, domestic science, business,
manual training and agriculture. The
present faculty has had great sue
cess in its work and an exceedingly
small number of failures are reported
despite the fact that the standard
demanded is high. The advantages
to the country pupils Of the county
OF obtaining access to this institution
are beyond question and II is predict
ed that great numbers of them will
attend next year.
II. S. GRADUATES
The names of those pupils who
will graduate this year from the High
School are: Miss Ruth Cox, Mis-
Leona Hubbard, Miss Margaret Ran
dolph, Paul Major, Eddie Berry, Rus
sell Cooper and Joe Deckert.
EIGHTH GRADE PROMOTIONS
As the eighth graders are only ad-
mitted to the High School at the be
ginning of the year the eight mem
bers of the grade who have COM
plcted only half the years work will
be tutored by Miss Lillian Larson,
teacher for the eighth grade, and
admitted on completion Of the re-
auired work. Those who will be-
given entrance certificates 10 the
High School are; Leona Clifford,
Almeta Cooper, Winifred Doak, Rosa
Doak, Grace Emery, Ava Evans,
Beatrice Hills, Harold Holiday, Da-
mon Hubbard, Josephine Latham,
Francis McAdams, lone Millard,
Granville Paine, Grace Poe, Wells
Rutherford, Jessie Snyder, Moses
Soltero, Maurine Trimble, Julian
Curtis, Mildred Allen, Grace McDan-
iels, Maud Williams, Fannie Harring-
ton Nellie Burns, Eula Holstein, Ma
ria Mier, Alice Hiler, Efie Wright,
Francis Ludlow, Mildred Connaway.
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