Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system . ing and equipment than do thelatter, a consolidated school unwisely located may easily encroachupon the field of neighboring ones and thereby become a source ofpermanent irritation or annoyance in county school affairs. Some of the States west, northwest, and southwest have counties,parts of which have but recently been organized or are soon to beorganized into school districts. These afford excellent opportunitiesfor establishing consolidated schools on the county-system plan fromthe beginning. In many of these progressive weste
Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system . ing and equipment than do thelatter, a consolidated school unwisely located may easily encroachupon the field of neighboring ones and thereby become a source ofpermanent irritation or annoyance in county school affairs. Some of the States west, northwest, and southwest have counties,parts of which have but recently been organized or are soon to beorganized into school districts. These afford excellent opportunitiesfor establishing consolidated schools on the county-system plan fromthe beginning. In many of these progressive western communities,consolidation is meeting with marked success and enthusiastic popu-lar support, in particular in several communities in Idaho which at54634°—Biil|. 232—10 5 66 the time of settlement have organized large consolidated districts of30 to 36 square miles. It seems certain that those irrigated,prospectively densely populated, and intensively cultivated sec-tions, will soon support a system of schools adapted to country life ofverv high LEGEND DISTRICT SCHOOL S HIGH SCHOOL ? DISTRIC T BOUNDARY ELECTRIC ROAD STEAM ROAD ,,, TOWN Fig. 16.—Map of Ada County, Idaho, showing boimdarips of the school districts and the location of rural district schools and high schools, of one-room rural schools (ungraded) 24 Number of two-room rural schools Number of three-room rural schools Number of pupils enrolled in 1907, one, two, and three room rural schools. 1 4, 662 The consolidated school in Twin Falls, Idaho (page 25) gives avery fair idea of the results of the educational efforts of one of thosenewly settled communities. There are five other schools of likecharacter in the State. No. 232 67 As before mentioned. Ada and Canyon counties, Idaho, were se-lected for the purpose of studying to what extent the county systemof consolidation is adapted to the local conditions peculiar to irri-gated lands. The older and irrigated portions of both counties areat
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