From the Thursday, July 23, 1914, issue of the High Point Review
Concord—Mr. J.B. Long, principal of the No. 2 graded school,
has completed his work of taking the school census and population of Concord.
Concord’s population, as reported by Mr. Long, is 9,046. The
government census gave it as 8,715. Mr. Long’s figures gathered while taking
the school census, Mayor Hartsell having engaged him to take the population.
The school census shows 2,289 white school children in
Concord and 547 colored. There are 660 white children in the city between 8 and
12 years of age. The white children show an increase of 68 over last year and
the colored show a decrease of 50.
Mr. Long states that illiteracy among the white children
shows a large decrease and that the compulsory school law is being well observed.
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