Denton High School - Bronco Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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1 3 Bronco A. 0. CALHOUN, Principal Denton High School Since 1920 «

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°Q e Broaco W.T. DOGGETT, Superintendent of the Denton Public Sc iiooi.h Since 1920

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DENTON CITY SCHOOLS Prior to eighteen hundred and eighty-three there were no free schools in Denton County. The early schools were “subscription schools.” They were generally three-month schools, taught in the summer months and called summer-schools. The common subjects only were taught, such as reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic. The students paid from one dollar and a quarter to one dollar and a half tuition, and would spend the entire day in the scholastic institution. Later, a series of schools were taught in the Masonic Hall, and gradually were improved until they were called high schools. They finally gave way to the public free schools. In the summer of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, school bonds were sold and the first school building was erected. The struclure was a three-story brick building and cost about fifteen thousand dollars (the proceeds of the bond sale). In this building, a four-month school was taught in eighteen hundred eighty-four. The school fund would not justify a longer term. The school of the following year had five hundred pupils, and the enrollment reached five hundred and seventy during the following three years. About six years later, the faculty was composed of thirteen teachers. A period of three more decades has passed, and on the campus of the old John B. Denton college now stands the Denton High School. In addition to it there are four ward schools—the Robert E. Lee, the Stonewall Jackson, the Sam Houston, and the Fred Douglas (colored) school. The total enrollment of the schools now is two thousand two hundred, of that number seven hundred twelve are in High School. There are forty-two teachers in the City Schools with nineteen in the High School. The High School enrollment has grown so rapidly that a new and larger building is needed. It is hoped that within the next few years a junior school may be established.