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Saturday, February 13, 2021

Charlotte City School System in 1921

Do You Know—By Brock Barkley

Charlotte City Schools

--The Charlotte public school system was organized in 1882?

--Enrollment today is 8,925, the largest of any city in the Carolinas?

--6,362 of these are white students and 2,563 negroes?

--The total amount invested in school properties since the system was established amounts to $505,000?

--$650,000 of the recent authorization of $750,000 is yet to be spent for building construction, and will go to the erection of a second high school, a vocational school in Belmont and buildings elsewhere in the city?

--Charlotte now has 14 school buildings and two additional schools are conducted in rented structures?

--216 teachers are employed, the average number of pupils to the teacher being about 42?

--The average monthly salary for nine months of teachers is $105?

--The cost per child in the city schools is $27.85 the year?

--Total annual operating cost of the city schools is $244,094?

--A compulsory school law requires every child between the ages of 8 and 14 years of age in Chnarlotte to attend school for 9 months?

--Charlotte has both a junior and a standard high school with a total enrollment of 890?

--Between 95 and 100 students will graduate from high school this term as compared with 35 ten years ago?

--Charlotte high school is on the accredited list of the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities and that its graduates may enter any Southern institution on certificates without examination? --A graduate of the Charlotte high school entered West Point Military Academy on a certificate and without examination?

--The three leaders in the Freshman class at the State University are Charlotte high school graduates?

--Charlotte high school offers courses in stenography and typewriting, bookkeeping, business methoids, manual training, domestic science, chemistry, physics, biology, French and Spanish in addition to the regular classical courses?

--Charlotte schools have had only four superintendents, T.J. Mitchell, J.T. Corlew, Alexander Graham, and H.P. Harding?

--The present members of the school board, who are serving a term of two years, are Plummer Stewart, vice chairman; C.W. Tillett Jr., W.H. Belk, J.B. Ivey, J.L. Wolfe, D.H. Johnston and N.V./ Porter?

--Four teachers in the city schools have served for more than a quarter of a century—Miss Sallie Bethune, Miss Charlee Hutchison, Miss Alive Holland and Miss Lelia Young.

From the front page of the Charlotte News and Evening Chronicle, Sunday morning, Feb. 13, 1921

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