Tucker County Schools, West Virginia This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Education in West Virginia Prepared under the direction of the State Superintendent of Free Schools 1904, Charleston: The Tribune Printing Company, 1904 pg. 239 - 241 Tucker County BY C. U. ADAMS, SUPERINTENDENT In Tucker county there are seven school districts, namely: Black Fork, Clover, Davis, Dry Fork, Fairfax, Licking and St. George. In Black Fork there are three graded schools as follows: Parsons graded school, employing six teachers, with an enrollment of 270 pupils. Average daily attendance, 225. This school has a library of about 300 volumes, also an organ, charts, globe, wall maps, cyclopedia, slate blackboards, patent desks, and mathe- matical blocks. Hamilton graded school, employing tour teachers, with an enrollment of 162. Average daily attendance of 92. This school is supplied with about the same apparatus as Parsons. Hendricks graded school, employing three teachers, with an enroll- ment of 115. Average daily attendance, 80. This school has about the same apparatus as the others except it has no organ or globe and only a small library. In addition to the towns mentioned above there are 15 school buildings employing one teacher each. About all of these buildings are large enough to accommodate all the pupils who may attend these schools and they are so situated that all are in reach of some school. Total enumeration of district, 1154 pupils. Total enrollment of district, 850 pupils. Total daily average attendance, 676 pupils. In Clover District there are ten school buildings, each employing one teacher. Most of these buildings are small and unpainted with but few outbuildings. Total enumeration of district, 475. Total enrollment of district, 335. Total average daily attendance, 246. Davis District has but two school buildings—the Davis graded and high school building and a small colored school. The graded and high school building is a large brick and stone build- ing of 14 rooms, arranged after the most improved models for convenience and comfort. It is nearly completed and will cost about $30,000.00. They employ 12 teachers, the principal receiving a salary of $1200 for nine months term. This building is heated by a heater in the basement. It is also provided with a library of about 500 volumes, an organ, charts, wall maps, cyclo- pedias, and mathematical blocks. Enrollment, 482; average daily at- tendance, 406. Total enumeration of district, 605. Total enrollment of district, 508. Total average daily attendance, 420. In Dry Fork District there are 12 school buildings, employing 13 teachers. The most of these buildings are painted and are large and commodious. About half of them are starting libraries. All are provided with charts and a few with slate blackboards. Total enumeration of district, 459. Total enrollment of district, 357. Total average daily attendance, 242. In Fairfax District there are one graded school and five primary schools, employing 13 teachers. The Thomas graded school has six rooms, and employs seven teachers. This building is supplied with a system, of electric bells, library of about 200 volumes, wall maps, spring map case, tellurian and globe, charts, cyclopedias, etc. This district supplies free text-books for its pupils. Over 1000 books have been put into the schools this term and the plan is being attended with good results in a place where such provision was sorely needed. Enrollment in the Thomas schools, 376. Average daily attendance, 290. Total enumeration for the district, 773. Total enrollment for the district, 554. Total average daily attendance, 368. In Licking District there are seven schools. These buildings are- small and unpainted and some of them in a dilapidated condition. Only a part of these schools have teachers this winter, so that I am unable to give the attendance, etc. In St. George District there are 14 school buildings, but a number of them are vacant owing to low wages and scarcity of teachers. A number of these buildings are much dilapidated; furniture in bad condition and little or no apparatus worth mentioning. Estimated enumeration of entire county, 4158. Estimated enrollment of entire county, 2986. Average daily attendance of entire county, 2079.