Mayfield High School - Sacandagan Yearbook (Mayfield, NY)

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S840,000 Mayfield School Will Seat 450 Students The Mayfield Central School district was organized in 1937. For the first two years the children attended the Village grammar school built in 1892. In 1939 the new Central building opened and nine rural schools gradually closed. With the end of World War II, enrollment began to increase rapidly. Class size reached 45 or more pupils and in 1948 annexes were needed. In 1949 a bond issue was passed for S3 00,000 for an addition and alterations providing 10 new classrooms. This was completed in 1951. All rooms were immediately occupied. In the fall'of 1953 it was found necessary to add a first grade section and the next year a third, first and second grade section, and the crowding continued with no sign of a letup. At first, with the addition of grade sections, the secondary section was squeezed until it expanded into two basement storerooms. The pressure of increased enrollment continued. The School Board wrestled with the problem and finally concluded there was need for a new elementary building. In December, 1956, the Board submitted a site but the taxpayers defeated it. A Citizens Research Committee was formed, comprising persons appointed by various civic organizations and others named on a geographical basis by the Board. This committee selected the West-Warner site on North Main St. , and it was approved by voters in June. Through the fall months the committee and Board studied preliminary plans submitted by the school architect, Milton Crandell of Glens Falls. On December 10, 1957 the voters approved the proposition for the new school whichwill be ready in the fall of 1959. The new institution will contain 16 classrooms , including four kindergartens and three classrooms for each of Grades l,2,3, and 4. In addition a cafetorium will combine an audi- torium and a cafeteria. Other rooms include a gym, health rooms, offices , kitchen, janitor's storage, boiler room, and teachers' quarters. The voters will pay off the loan over a thirty year period. The residents will pay S41l,600 and the state S4Z8,400. The state aid formula and equalization rates, assuming that they stay the same, will necessitate a tax rate increase of 40 per cent with the 1959-'60 tax per thousand being levied in Mayfield at S34. 20, in Iohnstown at S29. 70, in Northampton at S43. 70 and in Broadalbln at S45. 40. Some 450 pupils from kindergarten to fourth grade will attend the new school. The faculty and staff will number 17. There are at present 43 teachers and staff members in the Mayfield Central School with James W. Smithers as Supervising Principal. ' The present school, now bursting with all grades, will remain in use for students of grades five, six, junior and senior high, or grades 5 through 12. The Mayfield Central District embraces an area bounded on the north by Sweet's Crossing, on the south by the town of Progress, on the west by Easterly and Phelps Street, and on the east by the Kennetto Creek. One of the important features of the new building will be that the central core will be sufficient for future expansion. The enrollment of the present school is 940 pupils with an anticipated increase up to 1,200 by 1965. During the past few years the enrollment has in- creased steadily at an average rate of 40 per year. The district operates seven buses all of which makes two trips both morning and afternoon. The buses travel 300 miles a day and transport 800 children both in the morning and afternoon. The December 10, 1957 vote has been interpreted as proving that the citizens of the Mayfield Central School District have the interests of their children at heart and once offered wide representation on fact-finding committees they were not reluctant to assume tax burdens to educate their children in proper surroundings. The vote of 406 to 191 proved that the resi- dents are backing the program with confidence. ff' I 5

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