San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
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AVERAGE FOR i.
. S.A. NDD|ES
Breckenridge Best Located
:, Of 81 Schools n
* San Antonio.

San Antonio school children travel
approximately one-third of a mile. OF
four blocks, to get an education. This
is the distance from a point midway
between the elementary schools, on an
average, for the whole city. The junior
schools. while a little greater distant
from each other. are fairly convenient
and accessible to the area of the Gle.
mentary schools and the center Of
population Of that section of the city
which they serve.
OF the senior high schools Bracken-
ridge Is best located to serve its pa.
irons. but the residence part Of the
city has grown away from Main Ave.
nue. High School to such an extent
that it has become inconvenient and
unsuitable as such, according to school
authorities, and a new high school,
better located and more easily aces.
sible will have to be built in the near
future.
AVERAGE DISTANCE.
A survey of map of San Antonio,
with reference to the location. of the
50 schools of the city, shows that the
average distance between schools Is
approximately three-quafters of s
mile. This average holds good of those
schools within a radius of two miles
from the courthouse. The greatest dis
lance that pupil would have to go
to attend a school would be in going
from the edge of the city limits to
school No. q, distance of two miles.
To reach school No. IS he would go
one and three-quarter miles and one
mile to attend schools Nos. 20 and "a.
from the city boundary line.
For high school purposes the city
has been divided into two sections,
north and south. The boundary be-
tween these two areas runs, east and
west. Lakeview avenue. Houston street
and Austin street. The northern sector
is served by Main Avenue High School
and the southern sector by Bracken.
ridge High School. '.t.- ..
B. H. S. CENTRAL.
Main Avenue High School is two
miles north of Breckenridge school,
but only one-half mile north of tie
dividing line of the two high school
areas, while it is two and one-half
miles from the northern city limits,
and three miles from the eastern and
western limits. ......
On the other hand Breckenridge
High School is one ard one-half miles
south of the high school area dividing
line and only one and three-quarters
miles north of the southern city limits
and distant two and three-quarter
miles from the western, making it
nearly central in its area.
MILE APART.
Four negro schools lie on the east
side of the city, east of Main avenue,
approximately two miles from the
eastern city limits, three and one
quarter miles south of the northern
limits and two and one-quarter miles
north of the southern limits. The four
buildings are approximately three
quarters of a mile apart. Two negro
schools are on the western side of the
city. west of Main avenue, and are ap-
proximately two and three-quarters
miles from the southern city limits,
two and one-half from the northern
limits and from one to one and half
miles from the western limits. These
two schools are one mile apart.
There is no negro school south Of
a Labeview avenue-Garden street line
and none north Of a line Castro-Com.
merce-Houston streets.
Twelve schools. eleven white and
one negro, are within q radius of one
mile from the courthouse. Twenty.
four, twenty white and four negro, are
in a radius of two miles, and fourteen,
thirteen white and one negro, within