PERFORM
FOR
POINTER
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POINTER
TALK
SCHOOL
BOND
ELECTION
Year
SCHOOL BONDS AND SCHOOL EXPANSION
Total School E^irollment
1019-20
1920- 21
1921- 22
1922- 23
1923- 24
1924- 25
2906
3131
3534
3807
5396
5739
The total school enrollment of the City has practically doiible?T during the last five years.
The total increase during the three years im mediately preceding the extension of the city lim
its was 901, or an average inci-ease of 30-0 each year.
The increase during the year immediately following the extension was 1,589. The increase
this year over the enrollment last year is 343. - I
At the present progressive rate of increase, the school enrollment of the City will'be around
8,000 in less than five years.
With the exception of a few rooms at Clover dale and one at Grimes Street, all the available
rooms of the present buildings aro^ occupied. Fonr rooms at Rav Street and three at Emma Elair
are used by two sets of pupils for each room. Altogether there are 589 pupils attending school in
double shifts.
The enrollment per teacher in the white schools of the 21 largest cities of the ^tate last year
was 35. In High Point the enrollment per teach er was 39. The average attendance per teacher
in the 24 largest cities was 29. In High Point it was 31.6.
Unless, a program is started immediately to provide additional room for the pupils already
in the schools and for the three or four hundred additional pupils that are to come in each year, the
majority of the rooms now available will soon be on double-shift duty and more than half the pu
pils will be attending school on a part-time schedule-
Under such conditions it would be impossible to maintain a standard svstem of schools.
The proposed bond issue of $750,000.00 is for the purpose of providing the buildings abso
lutely necessary for the immediate future. If th-is bond issue should fail to carry, the evil day
would merely be postponed and made more evil. On account of unavoidable delays, it is already
four years behind schedule.
CITY
SCHOOL BONDS AND SCHOOL PROPERTY
White School Property Per Child. Enrolled—192.3-24
1.
Gastonia
O'
Roanoke Rapids
o
o.
Fayetteville
4.
Salisbury
5.
(Greensboro y
6.
Durham
7.
Statesville
8.
Concord -
0.
Winston-Salem
■•O.
Asheville
1I-’
Wilson
12.
Elizabeth City
13.
Hickory i
11.
New Bern
15.
WMmington
$371.00
$342.00
- ; $338-00
- - $331.00
- $326.00
$295.00
$289.00
$288.00
...U... $261.00
$237.00
-$218.00
(Continiicc.l on Page 3.)
...... .$214.00
.. $202.00
$199.00