Show RURAL RunAL SCHOOL Kansas Village Home of Model Rural School Kansas The Kansas The pleasant village of f Holcomb population about received wide publicity recently with the publication of a report on the towns town's consolidated school One of the first of Its kind and a amodel amodel amodel model of elementary and secondary schooling the Holcomb school has been leading rural educational trends trend for the past 30 years The latest report on the schools school's advancement advancement ad is outlined in a 44 page booklet The village Is la located on transcontinental trans continental highway 50 and the main line of the Santa Fe railroad eight miles west of ot Garden City Kansas The consolidated school is the dominant institution There are an dehydration alfalfa plant a post office and two filling stations one of which carries a small stock of groceries In the vil vil- lage There is no church no bank no general store For the services of these Institutions the people go goto goto goto to Garden City The town Is well shaded by a large number of good- good sized trees It is an excellent site for a rural school as it provides for teachers and pupils pupas a maximum of quietude and a physically attractive attractive attractive tive rural environment Twenty Acre Campus Included In the physical plant of the school are land buildings and equipment and facilities for I providing utilities heat light water and sewage disposal The school is located on approximately 20 acres all In one tract The land Includes the campus on which the school buildings stand the athletic field a acre 9 school farm and the sites of the school-owned school faculty hous house ing The buildings owned by the school are 1 Main School building a brick two-story two structure feet by 33 feet completed In 1021 1921 1 Grade school building a stucco structure 41 feet by 09 99 9 feet 1 Vocational agriculture building n R story one-story stucco structure feet by 46 48 feet 1 a frame two story structure 33 feet by 63 feet 1 Bus garage a foot 48 by foot 60 story one brick structure 7 Teachers' Teachers cottages all frame structures and varying In floor dimensions from 24 feet by 32 feet a two-story two duplex to o 40 feet by 50 feet the two story residence of the superintendent Educators contend hundreds of rural schools districts could consolidate consolidate con con- and have a School chool as good goodas as Holcomb Holcombe Backs School The amazing thing about the school now serving five districts is the importance it has assumed in the eyes of the community The visitor to Holcomb soon senses an attitude of community pride in the tha school and a marked popular solicitude solicitude for the schools school's welfare The solicitude extends not only to athletics and other extracurricular extra ular activities but also to courses offered and to the maintenance of good academic standards The visitor gains the impression that the community for all its enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm for athletics would feel much less disturbed by a disastrous dius disastrous trous basketball season than by bya a reduction In the schools school's rating by the Kansas department of education education education edu edu- cation from Class A to Class CIa B B. B |