Ringgold Colored High School - Yearbook (Ringgold, LA)

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fH1story Con't .Y Thus, the Ringgold Tolored ligh School, moved along at a rapid rate, adding the ninth, tenth, and e le venth grades as the student completed tke grade below ILater grades one through seven were added, and the school op erated in this manner under the eight four plan Under the clever guidance of Superintendent Shelby, the Blenville Parish School Board and others, several.new buildings have been added and well equipped Plans a re now being studied for constructing a gymnasium which will be a step forward in improving the physical plant Over a period of five years, fourteen rural elemen tary schools have been discontinued and seven schcoo l busses put on to make convenient transportation for all of the boys and girls attending Ringgold Colored.TIigh School The total enrollment of grades one t YI'O u gh lO5 The teaching staff has incr ased to twenty f5.ve who are drawin equal salaries according to qualifica tions and years of teaching exp lence The s tucients take pride in saying that we hare one o the firme st free lunch proframs in the south seventh as of May 1949, 757 and ninth through eleventh,