Show t PIP me courtat K L D adams studio Paron ran high school modern and spacious clu iron county schools N NJ J BARLOW superintendent the iron county school district came into ex istance in 1915 1916 the time of statewide consolidation it holdi holds an unique million among the si hool hoot districts of of southern utah and the state iron ron county has always been ranked among the most progressive districts with the entrance of the railroad into cedar city the gate gateway WAY to zions nation nil d park cedar breaks and bryce canyon and the development of the large iron oro ore deposits in the county the demands upon the school have teen been steadily increased A majority of the two th thousand cusand school children of iron county imeln ire in rara Para gonah tont parowan carowan Pa rowan summit cedar city and Ka narra towns located along the zions national park highway connecting salt lake with los lot angeles the balance are in small communities muni ties most of which are located on the escalante desert iron county Is neither a the rich nor among the poor school sunho bof dis I 1 tracts of the state having an assess ed valuation alua tion ot 0 00 for the year 1026 1926 27 or 4 52 per perca capita for each of her aal 2061 school cho children I 1 tits I 1 on the census rolls iron co county may may levy I 1 e 75 wills mills on each dollar ot of milu s allou thou in the county since the legal limit for districts having assessed valuation valuations of between and 1 1 00 per capita based on the ici school 0 0 1 census is 7 5 mills thus 33 ca per capita for each eaph child on the census rolls tolls is available for the operation of school in the district from local taxation this amount is slightly un der the median for the elate state which is Ilo however wever the rante in the state Is from 8 in jordan district to 1673 in washington county from this it will be been that iron county ha has average ability to maintain schools by local taxation iron county is equipped with modern school buildings most of which have been finished since consolidation the high school building in is modern and spacious equipment is r rapidly being installed which will place the parowan carowan high school among the best equip equipped d rural high schools of the state re ahe junior high school building and the grade school building of cedar city are both outstanding they are modern and well equipped ippeL not only are there good buil buildings eju fags in parowan carowan and cedar city but the smaller communities in most cases have buildings which compare favora favors bly with the rural school buildings elsewhere in the state the iron county school district la has ha 3 a I 1 0 laa sirl fr t i y r ak 4 ZA jj ft A i ww y bussis and nd cedar cl school cr 7 rn RD adam studio st 7 41 MAI L is W T 1 M I 1 co courier artal R I 1 adams i cedar city high school no ugh high school building in cedar city high school work there is being done al i the branch college ly isy arran feme n ts between the two institutions the iron county school board pays the branch agricultural college fit t ait students under eighteen biars of w et who attend that institution it has been the alti in iron county to get the belt best teachers available to carry on the educational program they are generally well trained and in love with their norl orl all teacher teachers in the county are certificated and qualified for the work they are doing every possible effort is being made to t and hold teachers possessing character person personify and educational cat ional background A strenuous program Is carried on in iron county count in an attempt to get 91 t all children of school age under the influence of the public sch schools gols one hundred per cent of the children on the census rolls are accounted for and most of them are atte attending regular school one important feature of the iron county school estem stem is its health program good health is considered considered to be one of the greatest factors contributing to the success of children in the byster I 1 A supervisor of health is employed who spends her entire time in the interest of better health for iron county children goiter tablet tablets have been given to each school child in the district which has resulted in a forty per cent reduction in the number of goiters present among school children in the county during the last two years practical ly at all I 1 scho school 01 children in the district wens were immunized against diphtheria and a majority were against small pox an unusually large amount of corrective work las also time leen teen done in the county during this Is a feeling in iron county that the large central school with its better equipment equipment letter better trained teachers and an better social advantages is not only more moro efficient but more economical tu the district in keeping with his this idea prevision has been made to transport all high school students to cedar dar city or to parowan carowan from the districts surrounding rounding tur these comman ties grade school children are also transported sported from sane sections to cedar city and Par Pa oran thus elamin atma atin several one room schools in I 1 in order to raise I 1 the standard of teaching in iron county a primary supervisor was employed at the be ginning of the year 1926 27 this djoe was another step forward for the iron county school system placing it among the well supervised supervise a districts of the state what hoe hs come to be known as 10 local rural institution ill is one of the outstanding features of the iron county system in this way an institute is held in the practically every school in county teachers become quain ted with one another and with acquainted one ano thees problems the patrons in each community com n 1 u n attend these institutes Atit utes thus familiarizing f 1 m themselves with school problems the institute also gives the supervisor an opportunity op to be help teachers improve instruction which is 13 after all the object of the meetings primary the people of iron county are deeply interested in education and have hale proved conclusively time after time that they are willina will to pay for it there is a unc fine spirit of cooperation existing between the schools and the people of iron county this thi 3 remarkable 2 system attitude is reflected in the t bg school ach the parowan carowan high school Is located in the heart of an agricultural section where here sheep raising is carried on extensively A large of the percentage boys in this section will naturally enter agricultural pursuits for this reason the parowan carowan high was school 1 accepted as one of the th S I 1 hughes e smith M t h schools in the federal state sta to receive aid I 1 01 w I 1 4 N cedar airs ciar grade couglar IL D adams |