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Show Alpine District to Acquaint Public with Need for More School Buildings in This Area The Alpine School District staff is making detailed plans for acquainting ac-quainting the public with the vital issues connected with the approch-ing approch-ing school bond election of $2,950,-000 $2,950,-000 to be held Tuesday, April 26. Committees and representatives of local groups will be invited to meet with school officials so that an awareness might be developed of the crucial overcrowding the district dis-trict faces on the secondary level. In recent years the floor space in buildings in the district has more than doubled; however, nearly all this expansion has been made on the elementary school level. For the period 1938-1912 there were a total of 4.953 students enrolled en-rolled in Alpine District. By 1955 this figure had jumped to 9,763 which meant that the school population pop-ulation had doubled. By projecting the present enrollment, it is anticipated antici-pated by 1960 there will be an additional ad-ditional 2,000 students in the dis trict. Now this expansion has reached reach-ed the secondary schools. In February, Feb-ruary, 1955 there were 3.571 students stu-dents enrolled in the district on the secondary level. By projecting our present enrollment, it is anticipated antic-ipated that by 1965 there will be 5.640 students in the junior and senior high schools, an increase of 2,069 students in ten years. This does not allow for any increase in population, and all figures indicate that new industries already located locat-ed in the district will bring a greatly great-ly expanded population. The state law says these students must attend at-tend school and the district is obligated ob-ligated to provide classrooms for them. Present high schools are practically "bursting at the seams" trying to house the students now enrolled. Passage of this school bond election is essential to provide pro-vide the neccssai-y school buildings for the present and future. |