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Show Recent School Census Shows Status Quo; Increase Imminent The school census In the Iron County School District has been compjeted showing very little change in the number of students stu-dents in school this year as compared com-pared with 1953, but showing that in the next three years there will be a heavy increase of students stu-dents entering school in the first grade. There was no census taken in 1954 because of legislative changes', chan-ges', but the 1955 census shows an increase of only four students in the schools of the district over the number in 1953. However there is an increase of 75 over the number in school In 1952. The total registration this year is 2558 as compared with 2551 in 1953, and 2 183 in 1952. There are 1838 students at tending school in Cedar City, which is 18 less than the total of 1856 registered in 1953. The regis-tratlon regis-tratlon in 1952 was 1781. The 1838 students attending school here Includes students from the city and the vaJlcy, and also students from Summit, Lund and Newcastle. Newcas-tle. The number of students from Cedar and Cedar Valley this year Is 1765, as compared to 1781 in 1953. Summit has 43 students' as compared with 41 in 1953, while Newcastle registration has increased in-creased by two, from 27 in 1953 to 29 in 1955. LunM has one student this year as compared to four two years ago. Tarowan has an Increase of 46 students, the registration jumping jump-ing from 386 in 1953 to 432 this year, Kanarravllle registration has decreased by 22, from 120 to 98; Paragonah has 107 as compared com-pared to 109, Escalante Valley 76 compared to 73, and Modena has seven this year compared to 10 In 1953. The number of students in school in each age group are listed list-ed as follows. Six years of age, 2S0 students, seven, 217; eight, 276; nine, 226; ten, 186. 11, 191; 12. 221; 13, 198; 11, 170; 15, 185; 16, 171, and 17, 19 1. Next year 2G1 students wilj enter en-ter the first grades of the various vari-ous schools, 201 of them in Cedar City. The following year the total to-tal will jump to 285, the next, 291; the next, 309, which is the peak, and the year after that the number with drop to 300. |