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Local School Units In South Dakota Iv. School Districts Atlas, By Counties, W. F. Kumlien
Local School Units In South Dakota Iv. School Districts Atlas, By Counties, W. F. Kumlien
Agricultural Experiment Station Rural Sociology Pamphlets (1940-1977)
Kingsbury County has 68 districts and 48 schools that are still operating. Another 24 schools, all common, have been closed during the past few years. Out of those closed,8 schools or 34% are sending their remaining pupils to neighboring common schools while 16 schools or 66% sent their remaining pupils to nearby town schools. For the state, as a whole, 60% of the remaining pupils from closed schools attend neighboring schools as tuition pupils while 40% attend town schools.
Local School Units In South Dakota Iii. Special Problems Of The Small High School, W. F. Kumlien
Local School Units In South Dakota Iii. Special Problems Of The Small High School, W. F. Kumlien
Agricultural Experiment Station Rural Sociology Pamphlets (1940-1977)
The purpose of this study has been to present a general survey of secondary education in South Dakota; to show that the population base and financial resources of many public school districts with high school departments are too small to provide and adequate educational program; to point out that students attending too smaller high school department to close and send their remaining students as tuition pupils to nearby larger high schools appears desirable.
Local School Units In South Dakota I. School Districts, W. F. Kumlien
Local School Units In South Dakota I. School Districts, W. F. Kumlien
Agricultural Experiment Station Rural Sociology Pamphlets (1940-1977)
The fact that 482 common school districts in South Dakota failed to operate a single too small. It may be noted that 25 counties had nine or more districts without schools. The fact that 10 west river counties were in this category is especially significant in as much as most of the districts in this part of the state are a township or more in size.