Eleazer Says Enrollment to Be Practically Same as Last Session

Beginning on August 28 when the school of the Dutch Forks section open, 10,500 school children of Richland county will start resuming the studies left off when the warm days of last June began their approach. Negro school children will be entering school at the same time.

Enrollment for the 1931-1932 session will be approximately the same as that of the past session. County Superintendent of Education G. M. Eleazer believes. last year 8,087 elementary pupils were enrolled and 2,524 high school pupils, making a total of 10,611.

Following the opening of the Dutch Forks schools. Blythewood and Consolidated high schools and the grammar school of lower Richland will open on September 7. Dentsville will open at the same time.

Olympia, Rosewood, and St. Andrews school will launch their sessions at the same time that the city school begin, on September 14.

Economies in the operation of the County school system will be practiced this year in accordance with a wish expressed in a recent letter to county superintendents by James H. Hope, states Superintendent of education, Mr. Eleazer said.

One of the county school buildings was damaged by fire during the summer campaign and the school authorities will have to operate a makeshift schedule until repairs are completed.

High school pupils at Olympia will attend school in the morning and grammar school pupils in the afternoon for the first two weeks of the session. Rapid progress is being made in repairing the building and it is expected that it will be finished by September 26, the time specified in the contract. Repairs to the roof which was almost completely destroyed by the flames and to other parts of the building which were damaged are being made at a cost of $10,000.

A new school building is being planned at Blythewood. The building will be a one-story structure of brick veneer with four rooms and an auditorium. it will provide ample room for the high school students from Blythewood, Killian, Level, Belleview and Camp Ground districts and will relieve the crowded conditions that now exist at Blythewood.

Only one consolidation in the county school system has been effected since the schools opened for the 1930-31 term. Browns and Pontiac schools have been combined and will be held this term at Pontiac. Grammar school pupils will attend there and high school students from the two districts will go to Blaney.