Farrell High School - Reflector Yearbook (Farrell, PA)

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ATTENDANCE DEPARTMENT GERALDINE DAVIS Farrell, Pennsylvania Farrell High School Secretary to the Superintendent KATHRYN L. SCHUSTER Wheatland. Pennsylvania Farrell High School Secretary to the Principal THOMAS LEWIS Farrell, Pennsylvania Attendance Officer FRANK SPARANO Farrell, Pennsylvania Custodian REPORT ON PERCENTAGE OF ATTENDANCE FARRELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1925 ' 1932 1925 1926 97 per cent 1926'1927 -97 per cent 1927'1928 98 per cent 1928 1929 97 per cent 1929'1930 97 per cent 1930'1931—98 per cent 1931 1932 97 per cent 19321933 { 20

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INCREASED ENROLLMENT IN THE FARRELL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL If we analyse the enrollment data on this page we may wonder what factors have contributed to increase the attendance by six hundred from the year 1926 to 1933. How much of this increase can be attributed to the fact that the American public has recognized the values of an education? Is this increase in enrollment due to the fact that institutions of higher learning, professional schools and industry have set standards for young Americans to hurdle? Lastly, how much of the increase is due to the inability of business and industry to provide employment for boys and girls of High School age? Regardless of how we may answer the above questions, the figures indicate a trend to remain in school longer. More ninth year students attend school since 1929. There is a decided increase in the Senior High School enrollment beginning in the school year 1931-32. Forty-eight and two-tenths per cent of the 230 ninth year students graduated in 1929, as compared to 57-3 per cent of the 312 ninth year students who graduated in 1932. This year 195, or 60 per cent, of the students who were in the ninth grade four years ago will graduate. Have we reached the peak? Will the future show that more students remain in school in the upper grades? Provision has been made to take care of this increase in enrollment by building three modern rooms on the top of the gymnasium. These rooms are used by the Commercial Department. There was a temporary suspension this year of the Industrial Arts and the Domestic Science Departments. Rooms used for the purpose of cooking, sewing and wood working are now equipped with table arm chairs and are used for regular classes. The balcony of the auditorium has been used for a number of years to take care of the overflow from the study halls. FARRELL Jl INIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DATA ON ENROLLMENT 1925 1932 Tears 1925 1926 1927 Grades 1926 1927 1928 Grade 7 349 344 325 Grade 8 270 301 314 Grade 9 230 249 290 Grade 10 174 166 197 Grade 11 76 185 124 Grade 12 103 49 123 Total 1202 1294 1373 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 354 359 354 350 344 293 299 326 327 327 312 325 348 387 371 243 237 232 292 326 166 170 183 204 249 111 114 147 179 199 1479 1504 1590 1739 1816 W. R. Anderson. 19

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