County Students May Not Attend City Negro Schools, Nov. 2, 1924

County Students in City Schools. . . Hillside Park School Had 182 Children from Pearsontown District

Survey of the colored schools of the city by the school attendance officer has revealed the fact that 182 children have been attending the Hillside park school who live outside the city limits. Children were found to be attending there, also, who lived east of South street, which is the school boundary line for the colored schools. A large part of the 182 students should have been attending the Pearsontown school, it was stated by J.W. Beavers the school attendance officer.

Some of the number were high school students are rightfully were attending the city school. (??)

A number of the students have now gone back to the Pearsontown school, giving to the Hillside school some badly needed room. The overcrowded condition of this school has been the source of concern to the school officials. All of the class rooms were taxed to capacity and the wooden hut on the school grounds was also pressed into service. Ordinarily 30 or 35 students are cared for in one room, meaning that the students attending the Hillside school from the country represented five or six class rooms.

With the sending back of those students to the Pearsontown and other schools where they belonged, the congestion at Hillside school was relieved.

With the holp of Major Marion B. Fowler, business manager of the city schools, the condition has been remedied and the boundaries established.

From page 2 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924

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