13 PER CENT INCREASE School Rolls slast County Off to New Stuc ent Record First ides registration broke all enth ee gained 195 and the 12th Plain City 41 Riverdale: :1..62.).3 Reosevelf . ., 5 eee RE, tN NNR nt RN rts ~ “Tf our enrollment continues after opening day at the same pace it did last year, we could have 12,000 students by midyear,’ reported Supt. T. H. Bell. | Heavy second day registration was being reported at the three jun-| ior high schools and elementary schools in North Ogden and Washington Terrace. — “We could go up another 200 when the second day totals are in,’ Supt. Bell said. The district gained 250 students during the first nine weeks of the last school year. This record number of students was greeted by a record number of teachers. This year’s 415 teachers is 60 more than the. district employed last year. RR final AR This is a 13 per cent or 1,341 student gain over the first day last year. ! It is an 11 per cent or 1,204 stu- dent gain over last year’s registration of 10,328. hen : A , counted 11,432 students of the first day Thurs- AEA Teachers ‘at the end day. A year. seen records in the county schools this increased 177. ‘The largest grade enrollment was Roy Elementary. in the first with 1,254 students. Valley Supt. Bell expressed surprise at Washington Ter. West Weber this big first grade class. “We didn’t expect quite that Wilson Boy Junior's os sa 78 many. At the rate we usually pick Wahlquist ; up first graders during the year South o . fuesas eee L047 elas D aes we probably will have 1,350 by the Weber ae end of the year. ‘Twelve of the 19 schools open last |. year gained students in the first day registration. Part of the reason for the decrease in the otherschoseven ols. at of two new eK biggest gain—380. Enrollment climbed last year to 2,161. , i was the opening ed the} — The high school experienc The next highest from gain 1,781 : mea was 225 Fas at South Junior High where several} hundred 7th graders are on double) session. COMPARATIVE FIGURES | The following two charts com-| oe pares last year’s enrollment with!” this year by grade and by school. 1,095 Ree View se 811 fe 709 (ae uy 694 | ay 737) Aes 598 F 437 1958 aes 488 Paes 431 fae 312 463 : : 0\. 593) 3 804 o¥ 405 ras eos 1,014 a NEED FEW TEACHERS “We could use a few more teachers but have no classroom to put them in,’’ Supt. Bell said. ““‘We have a teacher for every teaching situatin. si The secondary grades—7 through 12—account for most of the enroll-| ment gain. The 4,832 secondary stu- Burch Creek | dents is 846 more than the district| Club Height had at the end of last year. Hooper First day elementary enrollment Lakeview reached 6,657, a gain of 420 over Lomond View last year. Municipal The biggest gain was in the 11th North Ogden grade where enrollment climbed North Park _ . from last year’s 598 to 802. The sev- ibe 1958 ib Boe S — 415 345 fe 379 224, ad