Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system . m a studyof the counties where such extensive progress has been made. Nu-merous counties are demonstrating that district schools may be com-pletely supplanted by consolidated schools without the slightest inter-ruption in education—after eight years all that remains of the districtschool is a memory. CONSOLIDATION IN DUVAL COUNTY, FLA. Supt. George P. Glenn, Jacksonville, Fla., who, in the capacity ofcounty superintendent or secretary of the board of education, hasbeen at the head of Duval County school affairs during the past No
Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system . m a studyof the counties where such extensive progress has been made. Nu-merous counties are demonstrating that district schools may be com-pletely supplanted by consolidated schools without the slightest inter-ruption in education—after eight years all that remains of the districtschool is a memory. CONSOLIDATION IN DUVAL COUNTY, FLA. Supt. George P. Glenn, Jacksonville, Fla., who, in the capacity ofcounty superintendent or secretary of the board of education, hasbeen at the head of Duval County school affairs during the past No. 232 76 eighteen years, has succeeded in consolidating all the district schoolsof that county, with the exception of those of one district. Of theconsolidated schools in operation, 10 are graded and 2 typical con-solidated schools. (See map, fig. 21.) Some of the consolidated districts are quite large, a number of thechildren walk some distance to meet the school wagon; in this waychildren from considerable areas can be brought together in this Fio. 21.—Map showing consolidated districts and location .of consolidated schoolhouses in Duval County, Fla., of county, 884 square miles. The consolidated schools are indicated by the con-ventional symbol, location of future consolidated school by a circle. Two launches conveychildren to a school at New Britain. The generally level conformation of the land is favorable to trans-portation. Soil sandy, loose in places, drains well, and is solid wherethere is an admixture of clay. Improved farm land (in 1908) ranged, according to location, etc.,from $30 to $100 and upward per acre; the average is probably near$40, as there is considerable low and undrained land. The rural schools of 72 per cent of the entire area of the county areconsolidated. Twenty-nine school wagons, owned by the county, con-vey the rural pupils to school daily. No. 232 11 The intended location of the consolidated >schoolhouse in the only
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