Kingwood Public School, Preston County, West Virginia

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Kingwood Public School

Source:
History of Education in West Virginia
Prepared under the direction of the State Superintendent of Free Schools
1904, Charleston: The Tribune Printing Company, 1904
pgs. 131 - 132


Kingwood Public School

BY OREN F. MORTON

The public school of the town of Kingwood, W. Va., has an enrollment
of 202 and is under the management of Mrs. Mary S. Holden, Principal,
assisted by John P. Hundley, Adah Cobun, Isa Monroe, Nellye Godwin,
and Minnie Murdock. Twenty-eight of the pupils are in the High School
Department. A good feeling obtains between patrons and pupils on the
one hand and teachers on the other. There are few changes made in the
teaching staff and Rufus Holden, who resigned at the close of the last
school year to enter the profession of law, had served eleven years as
principal.

Kingwood is exceptionally healthy and illness makes very little inroad
on school attendance. The building is of brick and occupies a pleasant
situation. The playground is ample. The rooms are well lighted, well
heated, and generally papered. The desks are single and the blackboards.
are of slate. There is a library of several hundred volumes, much used
by the pupils, and there are dictionaries, charts, mathematical and other
equipments, and on each floor is an organ. The building has been
modernized, is in excellent repair, and pupils are taught to refrain from
injuring the same. There is a published curriculum. The length of the
school year is six months, and this is usually supplemented by a sub-
scription term.