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Show SYSTEM IS lie Attendance of Pupils Is at'; High Mark; Further Betterments Bet-terments Proposed. r Special to Tile Tribune. MOXTPEIJICR, Idaho, Nov. 20. Ac-rnrrling Ac-rnrrling to this year's census there ure 767 persons between the aes of (3 find! LM years in Montpelier Independent; o-liool district. At the opening of school kist Monday morning there was a total enrollment of 704. Of this number 575 were in the prades and i Lit) in the high school. That the total enrollment of the schools is nearly equal to the number of the school population is due to the fact that a number of the pupils who are attending attend-ing the Montpeher schools are non-residents. Since school opened nearly ten families have moved into M-ontpelier to give their children the advantages the 5lontpelier hifih school offers. Superintendent Stevenson said that there are only eight children of compulsory com-pulsory school' age who are not attending attend-ing school and he thought that even this small number would soon be diminished. di-minished. This is the largest enrollment that The Montpelier schuois have had in their history and everything points toward a larger enrollment before the school year advances much further. This is due to The fact that owing to the lateness of the season a number of the farmers have been unable to finish their work and consequently have been unable to move into town as they anticipated lo-ing lo-ing and no doubt as soon as this work is finished rhev will do so. It is now ten years since what was then two school districts were combined com-bined anil have since been known as Montpeiier independent district No. 1. At that time there were ten tea-chers employed in the two districts four in the down-town district and six in the np-town. There were two frame buildings build-ings and in some cases there were two grades crowded into one room. Now the district employs twenty teachers and one superintendent, who supervises the three buildings, two of which are modern fire-proof structures. One of ihese buildings, the Lincoln, was completed com-pleted at the beginning of this term of school and is one of the most modern buildings in the state. Kor the past two years the Montpelier Mont-pelier high school has been rated by a number of the universities in the west as one of the highest order. Classical courses predominate in the schools. :. Thorough manual training and domestic j -cience courses have been added in the last three yp;irs. Since these courses were added it has been the endeavor of the school trustees to build them up ,-ind to that end each year they have added new materia to these laboratories. labora-tories. Tf prespnt indications continue no douht it will be only a short time until new courses of a more utilitarian , character are added. ' All in ail. it U the proud boast of the citizens of Montpelier that they , now have one of the most up-to-date I public school svstems in the state. |