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Mount Airy High School - Airmont Yearbook (Mount Airy, NC)

 - Class of 1961

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OUT OF CENTURY OLD EMERGES This 1910 group of Mount Airy students contains now prominent citizens. The young ladies of Miss Graves ' School, oper¬ ated in the late 1800 ' s became quite accom¬ plished. Miss (; I;A V |-:s- school MOON I AlRIf N. C. Sometime prior to 1856 Mount Airy ' s first school was conducted by a Mr. and Mrs. West in a small building not far north of Judge Graves ' residence. In 1856 Doctor Reed and his wife took over the school. 1860 - ROCKFORD ACADEMY GRANTED T.F. Prather sold to a group of citizens land for the community ' s first free school. Rockford Academy was opened for males. Girls still had to attend private schools. 1896 - ACADEMY OPENED TO GIRLS For the first time free education was provided for females. However, around the turn of the century the academy was destroyed by fire. 1904 - ROCKFORD SCHOOL REBUILT A new brickbuilding was constructed on the same site. Original part of the present Rockford School was supple¬ mented by a small frame building on the lower lot. 820 pupils enrolled at that time. 1916 - SOUTH MAIN STREET SCHOOL ADDED South Main Street School was opened as a high school with 258 students. 679 elementary pupils remained at Rockford. 10

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OUR PRESENT M. yi. Ji. 6. 1917 - NORTH MAIN STREET SCHOOL ADDED First and second grade pupils from the north side of town were transferred to North Main School, then a small frame building. 1922 - NEW NORTH MAIN SCHOOL A new brick school was built on North Main. Rockford School was remodeled. 1933 - BANNERTOWN SCHOOL Bannertown School came into the Mount Airy school district. 1951 - NEW HIGH SCHOOL Students from South Main School were transferred to the new high school on South Street. South Main School was made a Jr. High. Mount Airy High School 1951 Mount Airy High School 1916 - 1951 Now South Main School Rockford Street School in the twen¬ ties. This view is from the west side. Classrooms at the back were a recent addition. 1960 - JR. HIGH MOVED Grades 7 and 8 were moved to the new extension of the High School. South Main School housed grades 4-6; Rock¬ ford Street became a primary school; and North Main, an elementary school for walking students. 1961 - ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER After a hundred years of public education, the Mount Airy school system comprises 3,184 students, 121 teachers (641 students and 27 teachers in high school), and property valued at $2,034,500. Remodeling and additions are in progress at Bannertown School and the J.J. Jones School. The Ashby home next to South Main is to be converted to an administration building, and a 13 acre tract on Old Springs Road has been purchased for a future elementary school. i i

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