Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-02-16
IS OUR PRESENT
SCHOOL BUILDING
|NADEQUATE?.

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Ivy, State High School Inspector:
"Your application for utilization
has been referred to a committee of
the Southern Commission. The action
of the, committee was to reject your
for the following reasons:
Your science room together with
your supply of apparatus and equip
ment in your sciences are unsatisfac-
tory.
2-Your high school building is
very much overcrowded and unsatis
factory for proper high school work"
Every available room in the school
building is overcrowded. In the
grades, rooms that should not house
over 80 pupils have from 40 to 80
For want of available classrooms, one
class in the high school reports to the
Baptist church and another meets in
the study hall where it is impossible
to do effective work.
School Buildings Recently Erected
Rolling Fork: Building cost 1884,
600; equipment $4,000; Teacherage
$4,000; campus contains Is acres;
grounds attended by state landscape
gardner; assessed valuation of prop
erty s1,5oO,0o0; school tax for run
ming expenses IA mills; total number
pupils enrolled 140; in high school 3S.
Friars Point: Total cost of build
ing, furniture and equipment, and
Teacheragc $4,000; assessed valua
ton $1,s0n,o0O; number voting fo'
bond issue SO; against O; number
pupils enrolled 100; in high school Is.
Lula-Rich Consolidated: Approx
mately same as Friars Point.
Byhalia: Total cost of building and
equipment $4,000; auditorium seats
500; anly 10 people voted against the
bond issue; assessed valuation of
property s725 700; number of pupils
enrolled 1874; in high school 33.
More data along this line could be
secured. The above cases are types
which show how adequately many
school communities are providing for
the needs Of their children.
Within the last few weeks the fol-
lowing towns have issued bonds for
the erection of school buildings: Gre
NADIA $4,000; Durant $4,000; Cal
houn City $4,000; Flora $4,000. Our
neighboring city, Taylor, has petit
ton signed by two-thirds of her quail
fed voters to float bonds to the
amount of S14,5 800 for the. building of
q new school building. The following
data is of interest as regards Cal
houn City: The assessed valuation of
the property of the district is $780,
900; tax levy is 76 mills (bond issue
raises levy to 84); building will cost
$4,000; only 16 per cent of voters
SOCCQ dSdiiiSt UOiiei s ioSuS, iidtiipCt
pupils enrolled EGO; in high school 60.
By Way of Contrast.
Oxford: School building erected in
1887; annex made in 1900; lighting
and ventilation bad; overcrowded;
number of pupils enrolled 450; in
high school 1875; assessed valuation of
property s1,400,OOO; bonded indebt-
edness for schools $4,000; for other
purposes $685. 900. Note that the
number Of pupils in the Oxford High
School is about as large as the total
enrolment in many of the schools
mentioned above.
Comparative Tax Leyies
I Water Valley SIS mills; Holly
Springs IS; Grenada 81 1-2 (does not
include tax for recent bond issue for.
Pontotoc 81 (pays 30 mills
school tax); Alderman S. (pay 10 IL
mills school taxi; New Albany 54'
(pays II mills school taxi; Calhoun
City 81 (see above); Koscinsko ST.;
Oxford Sc liz fpays Y mills school
taxi.
Do Legal Limitations Prevent bond
Issue for Schools \ 0xford7