Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system . unty. In six of the districts,namely. III, IV, V, VI, IX, and XXII, immediate consolidationAvould be practicable, and one of the first results would be that a largenumber of eighth-grade graduates would continue in the high-schoolcourses of the consolidated schools, and the number of rural pupilsattending high schools would probably rise to 180. At present thecity high schools, on which the rural population is dependent forsecondary education, enroll 56 rural pupils, or only 1 per cent of therural school population. The electric
Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system . unty. In six of the districts,namely. III, IV, V, VI, IX, and XXII, immediate consolidationAvould be practicable, and one of the first results would be that a largenumber of eighth-grade graduates would continue in the high-schoolcourses of the consolidated schools, and the number of rural pupilsattending high schools would probably rise to 180. At present thecity high schools, on which the rural population is dependent forsecondary education, enroll 56 rural pupils, or only 1 per cent of therural school population. The electric road could be advantageouslyused for the conveyance of numbers of pupils to school. No. 232 69 A district with its center at Kuna was organized in the fall of 1908and is almost identical with the consolidated district outlined on themap. At present school is being conducted in a tent: later it will betransferred to a rented building, to remain there until increase ofpopulation and taxable wealth will make possible the erection of aconsolidated school Fig. is.—Map of Canyon County, Idaho, showing the boundaries of the common-schooldistricts and location of district and high schools. Number of one-room schoolhouses (ungraded) 34 Number of two-room schoolhouses 9 PROJECTED COXSOLIDATIOX IX CANYOX COUXTY. IDAHO. Area of count}, square miles. Population in 1907, Canjon County joins Ada County on the west, and conditions oftopography, agriculture, and population are similar. The ruralschools, nearly all housed in neat and substantial buildings, are good. There are 8 high schools in the county, which is indicative of astrong educational sentiment. In this project most of these ha\e No. 232 ?0 been retained as consolidation centers, and several additional centerssuggested. The 48 district schools are supplanted by 22 consolidatedschools, including 1 joint consolidated school. The independent dis-tricts of the towns of Nampa, Caldwell, Payette, and Emmet havebe
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