Identifier: consolidatedrura232knor (find matches)
Title: Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Knorr, George Washington United States. Office of Experiment Stations United States. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Statistics
Subjects: Rural schools Schools, Centralization
Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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State, 35,910 square miles ; number of counties, 92 ; consolidation in 82 ; num-ber of typical consolidated schools, 309 ; number of consolidated graded schools, 135 ;number of union schools, 784 ; total pupils transported daily, 19,109 ; total expenditure fortransportation of pupils, $290,073 ; number of one-room school districts not consolidatedwhence pupils are transported to town or city schools, 598 ; total number of districtschools abandoned, 1,611. In each county consolidation is indicated by a black circle, whose size is proportionedto the amount expended for transportation of pupils. Successful operation in 32 States furnishes ample evidence thatgeographically—^which, in connection with this subject, relates chieflyto climate—there are no serious obstacles in the way of a muchgreater extension of the system. Consolidation is as successful inIdaho and North Dakota as in Florida, and serves the needs of therural population of Louisiana as efficiently as that of Indiana and
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THE CIRCLES IN ORDER OF SIZE SYMBOLIZE AN EXPENOnURE OF $1.000.%AND $5,000. ffk FORCONi/EYANCE OF PUPILS. No. 232 12 of Maine. The success of consolidation in sparsely settled sectionsof North Dakota and Florida tends to dispel the popular misconcep-tion that it is practicable only in densely inhabited territory. It is significant that, in the course of this investigation, not onecase of the abandonment of a completely consolidated school wasfound. Two cases were observed where partially consolidated schoolswere abandoned after trial and a return made to the old system.Investigation disclosed that in both cases dissatisfaction was due toincompetent management of the transportation service. It may belaid down as a law that the success of a consolidated school dependslargely upon the thoroughi^iess and care with which the conveyancedepartment is managed. Free conveyance remedies very largely thedropping out of pupils before completing the eight primary grades,so common and so deplorable

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