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Show School District expe"Groning Pains" Iron County School buildings are bulging at the seams with an enrollment increase of 188 students this year. At 27 students per sections, the 188 additional students requires seven additional classrooms and teachers along with related materials and services. After one week of school the actual number of students enrolled in the Iron County School was 3930 compared com-pared to 3742 at the same time last year, it is reported by Dr. Clair Morris, superintendent. Anticipated The increase was expected, however, and classrooms are now under construction at the East Elementary School to accomodate the . bulk of the student increase, Dr. Morris said. Currently the students are being housed in service rooms such as media centers and audiovisual audio-visual rooms in the North, East and South Elementaries. As soon as the new units at the East become available students and teachers will be transferred, as a unit, to the new facilities. Dr. Morris indicated that the problem was anticipatec1. and the sections to be moved from South and North Elementary Schools ar made up of bus students only. Students and teachers will make the move as units. The day the shift takes place, the buses will simply unload the students at East rather than the other two schools and the teachers will make the shift to the East, Dr. Morris said. Kindergarten swelling The largest class section in the District is the kindergarten with 385 students. The smallest section is the seventh grade with 252. Enrollments per school are as follows: Cedar -High 702, Parowan High 243, Cedar Junior High 706, East 520, South 649, Parowan Elementary 314, Escalante Valley 91 and North 705. Currently 89 students are enrolled in the adult high school competing program which is housed in the Community Center. Dr. Morris indicated that at the present rate of growth in the elementary schools it will be necessary to construct a large new elementary school every three or four years. "When the added elementary students enter the secondary schools, pressing building needs will exist on both the elementary and secondary levels," he indicated. |