Henderson, Oct. 16—An accredited high school is now available for every boy and girl of proper age in Vance County, it has been announced by County Superintendent E. M. Rollins.
The list was completed with the recent notice from the state Department of Education that the Zeb Vance and Dabney schools had been admitted to the accredited rating. This gives the county five schools in the select class—all available by motor bus to every school child.
The Vance county schools are operated under the county-wide plan, which places both county and city schools under the same administration.
Editor’s Note: “Every school child” means every white school child. According to “High Schools of North Carolina, Public and Private, White and Colored, Urban and Rural—A Complete List, 1926-27” published by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, Vance County didn’t even have a public high school for black students. There were two private high schools—Henderson Institute (Presbyterian) and Kitrell College (AME), but private means students paid tuition. And public transportation for black students wasn’t begun until the 1940s and 1950s. With all of this in mind, go back and read the news article again. If you want more information on high schools in North Carolina in the school years 1926-27, it’s online at archive.org/details/highschoolsofnor1926nort/page/n1/mode/2up?utm_source=copilot.com
From page 9 of the Goldsboro News, Sunday morning, Oct. 17, 1926
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