Burt Community School - Bears / Roundup Yearbook (Burt, IA)

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT , 3URT PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 1908-1935 Statistical curves are of inter st because of the trends which they shew in a graphical way. The curve below, showing the annual enroll- n.r.« in one elementary school grades of one Burt schools is partic- ularly interesting. This graph covers a oeriod of some twentyLeight years. In 1908 there were some 126 different oupils enrolled during the year. In 1913 taere were a total of 157 and in 1916 the total number was 173 , a number not quite equalled in 1919. From about 1905 to 1916 the enrollments showed increases, some years very markedly so. Following 1916 and continuing until 1927 the enrollments tended to decrease. Sinie tnis latter date the trend has again turned upward. I t is expected tnat the total numb w: enrolled in the elementarv grades during the present year of 1934-« 31 will exceed 150 puoils. TThile the grade rooms are all well filled, the total is still about 23 puoils fewer than were registered back in 1916. It is anticipated that the upward trend will continue for some years to come. One reason for so thinking is the growing tendency to close rural schools and send the pupils to other schools. Such schools have contributed several pupils to our grade school in the past few years. It is believed that as the Township school authorities come to realize the economy of sending pupils from small schools to others that a larger and. larger number will be sent to the town school. Another reason for believing chat the grade school enrollment will continue to increase is found in the large number of ch ld.ren count ’d in the last census when the largest number of children of scho 1 age ever recorded were counted. Many o, these children were in the lower grades and in many many cases there were children in the families represented who were below the school age. Still another rea°on is that there are not as many flos.ting families no: resident in th' district as was true

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high school enrollment - The growth of the high scho 1 during the past twenty-six years is shown in the graph below. This school has grown from a total of 32 pupils in 1910 to 110 in 193o-’34. The average high school enrollment during this period has been 76.4 , but the annual enrollment has exceeded this number each year since 1919. It is of interest to compare the enrollment in the elementary school, that ii: the high school and the number of non-resident tuition pupils. Undoubtedly the hi h school has grown because a larger percentage of cur own eighth grade graduates have continued their school work that was true fifteen or twenty years ago Perhaps a more important factor in Che growth c the high school has been the increase in the number of non-resident tuition pupils enrolled in the high school. This rapid increase in che number cf secondary school pupils has severely taxed the capacity cf the facilities available in the building. The auditorium or assembly room was originally planned to accommodate about fifty pupils. Twelve regular desks and twelve tablet arm chair desks have since been placed in the room, thus increasing the seating capacity to seventy-eight. The remaining pupils are seated in other rooms. Classroom space is even more crowded. Facilities for the proper handling of physical training, athletics of the winter season, and dramatics work are entirely lacking. Nearly all of che extra-curricular activities sponsored by the school are handled under the severe handicap of insufficient room. The too few classrooms is always the limiting factor in determining the schedule of classes for any given semester. In at least half of the classes it is necessary to have a recitation best work. in the study room, a condition not conducive to the OS1 i BUI }T HIGH SCHOOL I ENROLLMENT! I — — 06 1910-1935 r T Joo j ; T 9d, ... — 9o 8£ I I 8T Bo ? 1 ! L Bo 7sf - - — — - - - - V«d £ ? r i • — --7 b Jo !. | I - ' 7o 55 t ' 0 if 6a f H 6o SSI - 4.. J Uft' To T — , L j» i j—-j Vj 70 '} ‘1 Hq 55 i — 50' 3ic'h 't L S ; i I UH ‘1ST 7 Ii ,r i I 1 , . 5o, - 11 -