PUBLIC SCHOOLS - 1890'S
                        Vermilion Parish


Contributed by Margaret Rentrop Moore
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical & Historical by William
Henry Perrin; published 1891 pages 255.

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The public schools of the parish are in charge of a 
regular school board, whose duty it is to divide the parish
into school districts, and to apportion the school 
funds among the several districts in proportion to the
number of children between the ages of six and eighteen
years; to provide school houses, furniture, etc.. for the
schools. The board has a president and secretary; the
latter is ex-officio superintendent of the schools of 
the parish. In 1889 there were in the parish 3364 white 
children; 1736 males and 1628 females. Colored children
Ä males 320, and females 315. The present school board
are: N. C. Young, president; Ambrose La Cour, secretary;
James M. Williams, superintendant, and Guy Hays, Eloi 
Harrington, Henry Harrington and Desire Maux. The schools 
have been built up principally in the last five years, and
are now held about ten months yearly.