Durham County Expecting 6,000 Students, Sept. 7, 1924

Big Increase in Enrollment. . . County Schools Open Monday with Increased Enrollment. . . Around 6,000 Students Expected to Enroll on Opening Day. . . Have New Buildings. . . Practically All White and Colored Schools Open on Monday Morning Although a Few of Them Have Been Forced to Postpone the Opening Until Later Because of Various Reasons; County Schools Have a Strong Teaching Corps This Year and Excellent Results Are Expected to be Made During the Year

With most of the county schools, both white and colored, scheduled to open their doors for the influx of students Monday, several thousand children are now making preparations for again entering school in quest of educations. The system is on the verge of what is predicted to be one of its most successful years. With a strong corps of teachers employed to train the young minds, the school system is unusually well equipped this year.

Approximately 6,000 students are expected to enter school Monday. Last year the average attendance fo the year was6,000 but an increase each year to be approximately 20 percent over the preceding year in the first six or eight weeks of school.

A feature of this year is the number of new school buildings and old ones having additions erected. Around $150,000 has been expended by the school board in carrying forward the building program for the year, including $2,200 received from the Rosenwald fund colored schools. Included in the building program was a new building for white students at Hillandale, also new buildings at Bethesda and in Mangum township. One room was added to the Bragtown school and fire escapes were placed on the building so as to make it a standard school; an eight-room addition is now being erected at East Durham while new six-room temporary structure has been erected at West Durham to take care of the overflow expected for the new term.

There are nine Rosenwald schools in Durham county all of them being standard colored schools. The schools in Hickstown and Walltown added rooms with money from the fund, $200 being secured for each school. All of the Rosenwald schools cost $14,000 of which amount $2,200 came from the fund; $1,500 from the people in each of the school districts affected with the school board paying the remainder of the amount needed.

White schools which will begin their school term Monday morning are as follows: East Durham, West Durham, Lakewood, White Crossroads, Bragtown, Glenn, Rougemont, Mangum, Tilley, Union, Holt, Redwood, Mineral Springs, Bethesda, Lowe’s Grove, Patrick Henry, Fayetteville road, Fowler, New Hope, Chandler, Southview, and Southview annex.

Only two white schools will not open Monday, according to L.H. Barbour, business manager and assistant superintendent of the county schools, they being Mangum township high school and the Hillendale school. The Mangum township school will begin Monday week. The building has not been completed. Neither has the Hillandale school been completed.

The colored schools beginning the new school year Monday morning are as follows: Walltown, Hickstown, East Durham, Bahama, Stagsville, Wood, Rougemont, Russell, Sylvia, South Lowell, Union, Barber’s Chapel, Markham’s Chapel, Pearsontown, Page, and Lillian.

The Hampton school will not open until the middle of the week because the desks have not as yet been put into place. One week’s time will be necessary to complete the Bragtown school. No teacher has as yet been secured for the South Lebanon school. This school is a long ways in the counry, making it hard to secure a good teacher.

From page 6 of the Sunday Durham Morning Herald, Sept. 7, 1924

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