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Population Trends And School Building Needs In The Merced City School District, James Lafayette Daniel Jan 1954

Population Trends And School Building Needs In The Merced City School District, James Lafayette Daniel

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The natural result of this increased population was to place an abnormal strain on the Merced City School facilities. In the last ten years the enrollment of the schools in this city has increased from a peak of 1773 to 3566 pupils.

The administrators of Merced City schools, in attempting to provide adequate facilities for the mounting enrollments, have in the last three years, with the support of the patrons of the district, financed and constructed six new school buildings. Four of these are additions to the total number of district buildings and have been located at new sites because …