Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-02

: 2S7: average number Of caphers pei
, school. 3. average attendance, a. r..
/ per cent with an average hign school
+ course of two years and an avera e
( OF twenty-six pupils IN the high school
( course. OF he teachers, 81 per cent
( had academic and professional prepa-
! ration. SO per cent had al least three
. years training experience. The aver
: age salary paid is S67.5S. average en-
rullment under old system, a.. under
new system. I2g. average cost per pu-
pil enrolled under old system $3.50;
under new system. S3o.S9. average per
ccntage INCREASE in daily Tendance
under new system, is, u enrolment,
! 9 per cent.
All Of the counties report using
these consolidated schools as COM
munity ceuters eight counties report
Improvement IN roads due to cOnsoll-
dation, five report installation Of tcIc-
phone, eight report use of schools for
religious services, eighteen counties
report $ hools as fostering community
pareut-leacheT and other oYgauI2a-
tons seven report increase in land
values because of school consultation,
five report lyceum and farmers short
courses.
Hope for Improvement.
This Dlru eye view of rural school
consolidation in New Mexico gives
hope for steady improvement in rural
conditions. There are still 7I6 one
room school houses in the state and of
the 4O4 consolidated schools, fifty-nine
have been formed ly the union Of two
or more districts, the lest by natural
growth IN population Of districts Dona.
Ana county leads in that it reports no,
one-room school house in the county,
excepting a model school room on the
state college campus. Taos and Luna
counties. at the two extremes of the
state, report an equal number each of
one-room and Of consolidated school
houses GIANT and Valencia have
more consolidated than one-rOOm
school houses while in the remaining
counties the onc-room school house
prevails ColfaX county was the first
to consolidate two districts for the
purpose of building consolidated
school houses. This was in 1910.
Such progress did this movement
make than in 1918 there were built
twenty-five consolidated schools OF
that type The year before there were
seventeen, IN 1915 there were eight,
in 1914 six, in 1912 and 1910 one
each. Curry county leads with eleven
such schools. Colfax and Quay have /
esven each. Bernaliilo siY: Roosevelt /,
five: Lea four; Grant, Eddy, Chaves,
and Otero three each; DeBaca andl
Lincoln two each; san Juan, San
Miguel and Union one each.
tonyeyanccs in Thirteen Counties.
Thirteen counties report the use Of
conveyauces for transporting pupils TOT
and fro, the highest average cost Of
transportation per day being - cents
per pupil and the lowest average cost ,
10 cents. Grant country ranks high ,
est in the amount spent for building .
and equipment. Dona Ana is second /
Rio Arriba third and Curry fourth. ,
Luna county pays the highest average
salary, Grant second. Santa Fe elev- ,
cnth and Bernalillo eighteenth.
Grant and Eddy counties employ
only first grade. life ana professional
teachers, San Miguel has fortN-one (
first grade, seyenty-three second and |
third grade teachers, Curry sixty one !
first grade, nine second grade, no (
third grade teachers BernaiIlo forty ,
seven first grade. sixteen second and |
third grade teachers; bona Ana fifty ,
six first grade, twelve second and |
third graders; Santa re thirty first .
grade, thirty-two second grade and no .
third grade teachers; ColtaX ninety |