Hardy County, West Virginia - Hardy County Public Schools

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The records for this work have been submitted by Valerie F. Crook,
E-mail address:  <vfcrook@trellis.net>, May, 1999.
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HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN WEST VIRGINIA, 1904

Hardy County

BY L. S. HALTERMAN, SUPERINTENDENT

To begin with the year 1875 and compare educational statistics and
history, we find an increasing public sentiment in favor of the public school
system, and that there has been gradual progress along all educational
lines.

Hardy county, like others, began with log houses and some of the
rudest kind, furnished with inconvenient and uncomfortable desks, if any,
maybe slabs or puncheon benches, without backs, and possibly a kind of
shelf which extended round the walls and served the pupils in writing.

Gradually new buildings were erected and old ones were replaced by
more modern structures of frame or brick, with more convenient and pleas-
ant furnishings, and with a view of hygenic conditions.

In 1875 there were forty-five school houses, thirty of which were log
ones. In 1903 there were about 90, six of which were log structures.

The enumeration of youth 1875 showed about 2000, and an average at-
tendance of 712 pupils was made. In 1903 there was an average attendance
of 2300 pupils out of an enumeration of about 2800 youths.

The school levy has increased from 18c. to 45c. per $100.