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Show , . wfri fmjf pnrwinrwer rvwww ?A ,yCrii5Mp BBS ifcsiaiii am , N v - c,.,,3!,,); iv.. 4v vvi Courtesy R. D. Adams Studio Parowan High School, Modern and Spacious. Iron County Schools N. J. BARLOW Superintendent The Iron county school district came into existance in 1915, the time of state-wide consolidation. It holds an unique position among the school districts dis-tricts of southern Utah and the state. Iron county has always been ranked among the most progressive districts. With the entrance of the railroad into Cedar City, the gate-way to Zion's National park, Cedar Breaks and Bryce canyon and the development of the large iron ore deposits in the county, the demands upon the school have been steadily increased. A majority of the two thousand school children of Iron county are "In Paragonah, Parowan, Summit, Cedar City and Kanarra, towns located along the Zion's National park highway, connecting Salt Lake with Los Angeles. An-geles. The balance are in small communities, com-munities, most of which are located on the Escalante desert. Iron county is neither among the rich nor among the poor school districts dis-tricts of the state, having an assessed assess-ed valuation of 9,250.000.00 for the year 1920-27, or S4.488.52 per capita for each of her 2061 school children on the census rolls. Iron county may levy 7.5 mills on each dollar of valuation valu-ation in the county since the legal limit for districts having assessed valuations val-uations of between S4.000.00 and $5,000.00 per capita, based on the school census is 7.5 mills. Thus $33.06 per capita for each child on the census cen-sus rolls is available for the operation of school in the district from local taxation. This amount "is slightly under un-der the median for the state, which is $30.49. However, the range in the state is from $80.22 in Jordan district dis-trict to $16.73 in Washington county. From this it will be seen that Iron county has average ability to maintain main-tain schools by local taxation. Iron county is equipped with modern school buildings, most of which have been finished since consolidation. The 1 high school building in Parowan is modern and spacious. Equipment is rapidly being installed which will place the Parowan high school among the best equipped rural high schools of the state. The junior high school building and the grade school building of Cedar City are both outstanding. They are modern and well equipped. Not only are there good buildings in Parowan and Cedar City, but the smaller communities, in most cases, have buildings which compare favorably favora-bly with the rural school buildings elsewhere in the state. The Iron county school district has |