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Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 13
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John S. Gascoyne 153.08
Charles E. Stevens & George F. Wood
201.25
Etta Billingsley
103.53
Isabelle F. Nickerson
155.30
Mary Lehman
103.53
Anthony LoVerde
200.03
Charles E. Ames
206.06
Mary A. Dries
200.31
James W. Blackmer
200.65
Emma B. Church
150.04
Mrs. Harold E. Shurtleff
154.54
Edith M. Weston
102.51
Alfonsina Brini
151.57
Benjamin W. Leland
205.04
Edmund T. Morton
200.65
Perry-McGill
200.02
Cornelius Bartlett
200.60
Charles A. Dixon
150.01
Virginia Wright
201.58
James W. Tinkham
150.33
Ethel Dorr Mellor
501.17
Martha F. Paulding
152.25
Edwin F. Erland
101.50
Jabez B. Cole
304.51
Josiah Churchill
101.50
Elizabeth A. Dunlap
101.50
Celia G. Luther
203.01
Margaret Rossler
200.26
Holmes & Sears
200.01
Mary Elizabeth Holbrook
100.00
Ellen H. Getman
100.00
Addie R. & Ethel L. Haskins
202.00
Howland Davis
700.00
Bertha C. Paulding
252.50
Gertrude A. O'Brien
200.50
Rosalie Sauer
201.00
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New funds established in 1947:
LeBaron R. Barker
2,512.50
James E. Clark 150.75
Edgar W. Howland 101.00
Lewis H. Gould
100.50
Josiah A. Robbins
201.00
Frank W. Roberts
251.25
Gertrude L. Calloway
200.00
Benjamin D. Loring
200.00
Clark Finney
300.00
Hedda S. Anderson
250.00
Grace H. Manter
300.00
George L. & Susan B. Paty
200.00
Stevens-Morton
100.00
George H. Hodges
400.00
Morey-Peterson
200.00
Guy H. Nason
100.00
Alice L. Wright
200.00
Howard W. Edwards, Jr.
150.00
Gustav W. Benson
200.00
Total Plymouth Savings Bank
$108,704.87
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CHARLES E. HINCKLEY LOT IN CHILTONVILLE CEMETERY
Brockton Savings Bank $1,000.00
ABNER & CHARLES H. LEONARD FUND
People's Savings Bank, Worcester, Mass. 152.81
MARY B. DEAN FUND
Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n 111.04
ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY FUND Plymouth Savings Bank 118.35
PHOEBE R. CLIFFORD FUND
Deposited with State Treasurer 200.00
Total, Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds $171,920.36
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FRANCIS LeBARON POOR FUND Plymouth Savings Bank $730.89
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 730.89
NATHANIEL MORTON PARK FUND Plymouth Savings Bank 2,000.00
MURDOCK POOR AND SCHOOL FUND Plymouth Savings Bank 730.00
CHARLES HOLMES POOR FUND
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank
541.41
JULIA P. ROBINSON POOR FUND
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 300.00
WARREN BURIAL HILL CEMETERY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank
1,028.51
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank
196.11
MARCIA E. JACKSON GATES PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank
1,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank
1,000.00
ELLEN STODDARD DONNELLY FUND (Income to be used for needy families)
U. S. Savings Bonds-Series G
2,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 152.91
ALICE SPOONER FUND (Income to be used for special comforts for the sick at the Town Infirmary)
U. S. Savings Bonds-Series G
1,500.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 114.67
POST-WAR REHABILITATION FUND U. S. Savings Bonds-Series G $110,000.00
Reserved for Harbor Dredging
52,500.00
Balance $57,500.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 6,121.77
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PLYMOUTH NATIONAL BANK STOCK INVESTMENT FUND
Plymouth National Bank Stock 2,000.00
U. S. Savings Bonds-Series .G 3,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 580.50
STABILIZATION FUND
U. S. Savings Bonds-Series G
25,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 312.50
CONTRIBUTORY RETIREMENT SYSTEM FUNDS
Plymouth Savings Bank $5,144.30
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 3,979.65
Plymouth National Bank Deposit 6,873.65
U. S. Government Bonds
35,045.83
Other Bonds 52,007.24
Bank Stocks
11,590.00
$114,640.67
SCHEDULE J
BORROWING CAPACITY, JAN. 1, 1948
Valuation for 1945, less abatements on $57,450
$21,715,700.
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1945, less abatements
352,225.
Valuation for 1946, less abatements on $63,450 21,812,925.
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1946, less abatements 503,525.
Valuation for 1947, less abatements on $137,600 22,312,950.
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1947, less abatements
954,200.
$67,651,525.
Average 5%
22,550,508. 1,127,525.
Total Debt Incurred and Outstanding
Less:
New High School Loan
$48,000. 135,000.
Water Loan
183,000.
Total Debt Within Debt Limit
L
... ...
Borrowing Capacity, January 1, 1948 Percentage of Total Bonded Debt to Valuation, .8%
$1,127,525.
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$183,000.
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Annual Report
OF THE
School Department
OF THE
Town of Plymouth
For Year Ending December 31, 1947
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Term Expires
Dr. E. Harold Donovan, Chairman
1948
Fannie T. Rowell, Secretary
1948
William H. Armstrong
1950
David Cappannari
1949
Dr. William E. Curtin 1949
Ralph Weaver 1950
ADMINISTRATION
Burr F. Jones, Superintendent of Schools
Office, Town Square, Telephone 600
Interviews by appointment
Secretary, Elinor B. Sanderson
Clerk, Barbara Gunther
Office hours: School Days-8:00 a.m. to 12 m. and 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays-9:00 a.m. to 12 m. Vacations-9:00 a.m. to 12 m. and 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. School Physicians: Dr. Frank J. Abate, Jr. Dr. Medora V. Eastwood
Office hour at School Department: 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. School Nurse, Hilda Swett
Interviews at School Department Office or at school buildings by appointment.
School Dentists: Dr. William O. Dyer Dr. James A. McDade
Dental Hygienist, Jane B. Bradford
Dental Clinic Office, Governor Bradford Building, Telephone 1255-M.
Custodian of Buildings, Thomas A. Bodell Telephone 600.
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SCHOOLS
Senior High School-Telephone 26 Edgar J. Mongan, Principal Junior High School-Telephone 460 Mary M. Dolan, Principal Cornish-Burton and Hedge School District Franklyn O. White, Principal
Cornish-Burton School-Telephone 933 Oak Street School-Telephone 1661-W Cold Spring School-Telephone 1018-M Hedge School-Telephone 1242-M Mount Pleasant School-Telephone 1097 Mrs. Helen S. Manchester, Principal
Manomet School -- Telephone Manomet 3356 Mrs. Elouise E. Cashin, Principal
SCHOOL CALENDAR 1947 - 1948
Open September 3, 1947
Close December 19, 1947
January 5, 1948
February 20, 1948
March 1, 1948 April 16, 1948
April 26, 1948 June 18, 1948 School Holidays: Columbus Day, Oct. 13; Teachers' Convention Day, Oct. 17; Armistice Day, Nov. 11; Thanksgiving Recess, Nov. 27-28; Memorial Day, May 31.
NO-SCHOOL SIGNAL
2-2 Repeated on fire alarm
7:05 No school for Junior and Senior High Schools.
8:15 No morning session for Grades I to VI inclusive. 12:15 No afternoon session for Grades I to VI inclusive. Radio station WEEI broadcasts no-school signals shortly after 7:00 a.m. Radio station WBZ broadcasts no-school signals during the following periods: 7:00-7:25 a.m., 7:30- 7:45 a.m., 8:30-8:45 a.m., 12:00-12:15 p.m.
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FINANCIAL REPORT RECEIPTS
Appropriation, Salaries,
March 1947 $291,450.00
Transferred from Reserve December 18 450.00
Total
$291,900.00
PAYMENTS
Supt., Principals, Supervisors,
Teachers, Clerks
$259.044.70
Americanization 344.50
Summer School
475.00
Janitors, Building Supervisor
22,539.20
School Physicians, School Nurse
Asst. to Nurse, Dental Hygienist 8,257.76
Pension for retired School Physician 1,000.00
School Census 196.50
Total
291,857.66
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$42.34
From special appropriation for bonus to town employees $5,240.44
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, General, March 1947
$49,050.00
Trust Fund Income 7.34
Total
$49,057.34
PAYMENTS
General Expenses
Stationery, Postage, Printing
$370.99
Telephone
196.07
Travel expense in state
74.84
Automobile expense in state
400.00
Office supplies
25.75
$1,067.65
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Textbooks and Supplies
Text and reference books
$4,803.56
Paper, blank books, etc.
5,839.84
Manual training supplies
1,518.67
Domestic science supplies
821.86
Athletic supplies
797.97
Typewriters and supplies
280.36
Visual education supplies
370.81
$14,433.07
Transportation
Pupils
19,569.89
Supervisors, Principals
266.29
19,836.18
Tuition-Out-of-town schools
Elementary and High
$947.20
Vocational
1,558.75
2,505.95
Maintenance
Repairs and improvements
$3,860.40
Janitors' supplies
1,144.78
Gas and electricity
3,164.07
Telephones
567.56
Ashes, etc. removed
256.00
8,992.81 1
Furniture and Furnishings
Desks and chairs
$92.00
Window shades
107.40
Filing equipment
32.50
Library tables
73.00
304.90
Medical Inspection
Dental Health
$625.30
Medical-supplies
109.17
Nurse's car expense
486.85
1,221.32
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Diplomas and Graduation Rent of Memorial Hall
415.13 280.00
Total
Balance to Excess and Deficiency RECEIPTS
$49,057.01 $
.33
Appropriation, Fuel, March 1947
$7,550.00
PAYMENTS
Coal, wood, oil
7,543.36
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$ 6.64
REIMBURSEMENTS AND RECEIPTS
From the State on account of:
Teachers' Salaries
$17,610.00
Americanization Salaries
290.00
Vocational Tuition
255.61
Vocational Pottery School
15.50
State Wards
1,829.73
Transportation
6,841.85
City of Boston Wards
126.00
Tuition, Out-of-town Pupils:
Carver (Town of)
7,330.73
Plympton (Town of)
6,765.90
Kingston (Residents of)
43.75
Middleboro (Residents of)
74.80
Miscellaneous Receipts
667.46
Total
$41,851.33
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Appropriation March 1947
Expenditures
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
Salaries
$291,900.00
$291,857.66
$42.34
General (Including fuel)
56,607.34*
56,600.37
6.97
Totals
$348,507.34
$348,458.03
$49.31
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Reimbursements and receipts account of schools $41,851.33
Net expenditures for schools $306,606.70 (from appropriations to School Dept. for salaries and general) Bonus to School Dept. employees $5,240.44 *Including Trust Fund Income
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRUST FUND FEDERAL GRANT - GEORGE-DEEN
Teaching Pottery Classes
Receipts:
Balance from 1946
$248.00
Cash from State
918.00
Total $1,166.00
Payments:
Salary of Pottery Instructor $828.00
Salary of Decorative Painting Instructor 40.00
Total 868.00
Unexpended balance
$298.00
Teaching Handicraft Classes
Receipts: .
Balance from 1946
$48.00
Refund from instructor
12.00
Total $60.00
Payments:
Salary of Decorative Painting Instructor $60.00
From special appropriation for bonus, to town employees $129.60
NEW HEATING SYSTEM AT HEDGE SCHOOL
Appropriation, March 1947 $22,000.00
Payments in 1947 16,387.81
Unexpended balance $5,612.19
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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LUNCH RECEIPTS
Appropriation, Salaries, March 1947 PAYMENTS
$4,704.00
Salaries
4,117.60
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$586.40
From special appropriation for bonus to town employees $583.07
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, General, March 1947 $11,735.40
PAYMENTS
Provisions
$7,155.47
Transportation of food
367.00
Gas
284.29 .
Equipment:
Utensils and supplies $921.97
Manomet:
Chairs and tables 248.56
Gas Stove 159.03
Hot Water Heater
258.50
Plumbing (Hot water
and gas) 312.03
Cornish:
Kwik-Kutter
51.53
Sink
84.00
Hot Water Heater 34.25
Refrigerator
345.42
2,415.29
10,222.05
Balance to Excess and Deficiency $1,513.35 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LUNCH ACCOUNT For plan of administration and financing, see report of Superintendent.
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A. FOOD ACCOUNT
RECEIPTS-To Town Treasurer :-
Sale of Lunches $7,963.88
From Federal Grants (Food) 3,406.85
Total
$11,370.73
PAYMENTS :-
Salaries
$4,117.60
All other (Except equipment) 7,806.76
Total
$11,924.36
B. EQUIPMENT ACCOUNT
RECEIPTS-To Town Treasurer :-
From Federal Grant $1,092.92
PAYMENTS :- Total
(See itemized preceding list)
$2,415.29
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
TEACHERS' SALARIES
The appropriation for 1947 enabled the Committee to take a first step toward adjusting teachers' salaries to the new schedule described in our report of last year. This schedule recognizes both the professional training and the experience of the teacher. Women teachers of like training are eligible to the same salary scale regardless of the grade level on which they are teaching. Likewise, men teachers of equal training are eligible to the same salary scale, which is $400 higher than the scale for wo- men. Though the Committee increased salaries in 1947 toward the amounts due the teachers on the new sched- ule as indicated by their preparation and experience, certain limits were set, namely, $150 as a minimum to any teacher and $350 as a maximum. Due to these limits, only one-fourth of the staff reached the salaries due them on the new schedule. Substantial progress toward ad- justment was made in the case of the remaining three- fourths, who were, for the most part, elementary teach- ers and women of long experience in the Junior and Senior High Schools.
The average salary of Plymouth teachers has increased a total of 56.6% since the school year 1940-41 when the cost of living began to increase markedly. During the same period the cost of living has increased 60.1%. Wages of industrial workers have more than doubled. Until still further improvement in the compensation of teach- ers takes place generally over the country, altogether too few capable young men and women will feel that they can afford to consider teaching as a life work. It must be clear, to all thinking citizens that there is no. place in the life of America today where our most able young men and women are more needed than in the public schools as teachers of our boys and girls.
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NEED FOR ADEQUATE STATE AID
It should be clear to all that the rapid increase in school costs coupled with that in other public services cannot and should not be borne by real estate. Other types of wealth as well as of earning and producing abil- ity should share in meeting these increased costs. Since public services, of which education is one of the most important, are of value to all our citizens, the increased costs of these public services should be shared by all and not met from local real estate taxes alone. Massachuset1 contributes from the State Treasury only 7.2% of th cost of schools and ranks 44th among the 48 states in th: respect. On the average, the 48 states contribute 34% ( the local school costs. Since the state is a much mor effective collecting agency of many types of taxes tha the Town could possibly be, state revenue should bea a much larger share of the costs of education and th real estate taxes collected by the towns should bear smaller part of the cost. We call upon our citizens, there fore, to support such a plan as sponsored by Governc Bradford and various state commissions in 1947 lookin toward a marked increase in state aid for education Though the General Court failed to adopt the measur last year, a continuing and concerted effort is being mad again this year by important state organizations, incluc ing the Mass. Association of School Committees, th Mass. Teachers' Federation, the Mass. Parent Teacher: Association, the Mass School Superintendents' Associa tion, and the Mass. League of Women Voters. The prc posal now being urged is that the state increase its cor. tribution to education from general revenues to th extent of $28,500,000 annually." Plymouth's share woul be about $140,000. Such a measure would enable th towns and cities of the Commonwealth to make the nec essary increases in teachers' salaries and to reduce de cidedly the present tax now required from real estate toward the support of the public schools. Though the citizens of all communities would contribute toward this
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larger state support, the methods of state taxation would doubtless distribute the cost more generally over the population, rather than add it to the already high real estate tax.
SALARY INCREASES FOR 1948
In view of the fact that the anticipated amount of state aid has not yet materialized, the Committee does not feel warranted in requesting the Town for sufficient funds to complete the adjustment of all salaries to the new sched- ule in 1948 as asked by the Plymouth Teachers Club. When the salary schedule was adopted last year it was stipulated that further adjustment of salaries to the new schedule would be dependent on our receiving further financial assistance from the state and upon salary trends generally. The legislature in 1947 did enact a law pro- viding for a relatively small measure of new assistance effective in 1947, namely, about $1,000,000 to be distrib- uted to those towns that have unusually large transport- ation costs. Plymouth received from this source in 1947 the sum of $6,841.50. This aid is not ear-marked for trans- portation, but is an extra financial credit to the town on account of schools and comes to us in view of the fact that we have unusually large transportation costs due to our large area. Were it not for these exceptionally large transportation expenses a greater proportion of our school appropriation would be devoted to teachers' sal- aries. In the light of this new receipt from the state and in view of the fact that our receipts from tuition in 1947 were greater by $4,198 than in 1946, the School Commit- tee asks that the Town apply approximately the sum of these two additional amounts of income toward adjust- ment of salaries to the new schedule. This will permit us to make limited increases within a maximum of $150 to any teacher and a minimum of $100. There can be no doubt that these increases are fully warranted in the light of salaries now being paid in towns of our class as well as in the light of salaries now being paid to gradu- ates of teachers' colleges without experience beyond that
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of practice teaching. The cost of living factor, too, has continued to decrease the purchasing power of the dollar through 1947 until it is worth but 63c as compared with the pre-war dollar. The average increase we contemplate for teachers will no more than offset the lowered value of the dollar. It is our hope that the 1948 salary appropri- ation will also enable us to make an increase of 15% to $300 to the health staff, clerical workers, janitors, and lunch staff members as is being recommended for the employees of other town departments.
NEW HEATING PLANT AT HEDGE SCHOOL
Though there have been some delays in securing all the accessories in connection with this new plant, the furnace has been in operation throughout the heating season and the contract is now nearly completed. The new oil burning plant with the vacuum system is proving to be very efficient. Rooms formerly hard to heat are now comfortable. The services of a part-time woman for help in sweeping and cleaning are found to be necessary since the elimination of one janitor. We estimate that the net saving in operation for the year 1947-48 from the installation of the new furnace will be about $700.
NEW ELEMENTARY BUILDINGS - NECESSARY
The most important need occupying our attention is that of new and additional elementary school accomoda- tions. The Cornish-Burton and Cold Spring buildings should be abandoned as soon as modern schoolhousing facilities can be provided. The impending growth in the school population as set forth in the 1947 report of the School Department, together with the oversized classes we now have, make the construction of two new element- ary buildings of early concern. Our Committee has been in consultation with the Special Town Survey Committee on questions of location. Five different sites other than the present one have been uder consideration for a new Cornish-Burton School. Several of these would involve
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an extraordinary amount of grading as well as the pur- chasing of a considerable amount of property. The pres- ent site is not adequate for a large centralized school, but would accommodate a building of moderate size. A loan has been secured from the Federal Works Agency to pay for plans and specifications for a new Cornish-Burton building of 12 classrooms and supplementary rooms. That such a building is very much needed to replace the two antiquated wooden buildings is clear to all. We expect to present the plans to the Town for consideration as soon as building costs recede from the extraordinary peak they have now reached and again show some de- gree of stability. It is clear, however, that if it should be decided to construct a new Cornish-Burton building of not more than 12 classrooms, this would be only a partial answer to our problem since a building of this size would house scarcely more than the number of pupils already housed there in the 11 classrooms. You are referred to the following report of the Superintendent of Schools for data showing the trend of growth in school popula- tion and the indicated date when further facilities will be required.
Respectfully submitted,
E. HAROLD DONOVAN, Chairman FANNIE T. ROWELL, Secretary DAVID A. CAPPANNARI WILLIAM E. CURTIN
WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG RALPH WEAVER
Plymouth School Committee
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RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY MEMBERS OF PLYMOUTH SCHOOL COMMITTEES, FEBRUARY, 1948
WHEREAS, Mrs. Fannie T. Rowell has served the Town of Plymouth during the past twenty-five years as a member of its School Committee and as the Commit- tee's Secretary for the entire period, during which time we, the present and former members of the School Com- mittee undersigned, have been witnesses of the valuable service she has rendered and;
WHEREAS, Mrs. Rowell now finds it necessary to re- linquish the responsibilities of service on the School Committee,
BE IT RESOLVED, that we convey to her an express- ion of our good will, of our highest esteem, of our most sincere appreciation of her eminently fair judgments, of her steadfast adherence to high standards and ideals in the administration of our public schools, and of her long continued devotion to the educational interests of the boys and girls of Plymouth, and;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we express ", Mrs. Rowell our earnest hope that her customary vigor will be restored and that in the years ahead she may enjoy the deep satisfactions that come to a citizen who has served the public interest so ably, conscientiously, and honorably through so many years.
Former Members: Frederick D. Bartlett Edward R. Belcher Ellis W. Brewster A. Perry Richards Harry W. Burns Francis E. LeBaron
Present: Members:
E. Harold Donovan, Chm. David A. Cappannari
William E. Curtin
William H. Armstrong
Ralph C. Weaver
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Members of the School Committee:
It is a pleasure indeed to submit for your consideration a report dealing with certain changes required to meet changed conditions and with certain evidences of pro- gress made in our schools during 1947. I am also em- phasizing several important needs with which we are confronted.
INEVITABLE GROWTH IN SCHOOL POPULATION
By a strange coincidence our elementary school en- rollment in December 1947 was identical with our enroll- ment in December 1946, namely 1204 pupils. Our Junior and Senior High School membership shows twenty-two more pupils than one year ago. We should not be put at ease by the fact that our elementary membership showed no increase during 1947. Plymouth will not be deprived of the exceptional growth in school population that in- evitably follows a war period. Our births in Plymouth during the past two years when contrasted with those in the previous ten years show incontrovertible evidence. The average number of births in Plymouth for the dec- ade 1936 to 1945 was 203. However, the year 1946 brought 266 births and 1947 brought 329. Table I below shows the number of births by years for the decade 1938-47 as well as the estimated number of births for the next six years 1948-53 inclusive. In forecasting the births for the latter six years I have projected the Plymouth birth rates by applying the same variations that appeared in the Mass. birth rate during a similar period following World War I. At that time the peak of the birth rate was reached in 1920 and 1921, two or three years after the close of the war. The 1947 birth rate promises to be the peak follow- ing World War II as marriages in Plymouth in 1947 were about 10% less than in 1946.
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Table I. Births in Plymouth for Ten-Year Period 1938- 1947, and Forecast of Births for Six-Year Per- iod 1948-1953.
1938
190
1946
266
1939
176
1947
329
1940
201
1948
296
1941
202
1949
292
1942
226
1950
299
1943
252
1951
303
1944
221
1952
282
1945
176
1953
271
Table II. Approximate Relation of Births to Grade En- rollments.
(Plymouth experience over a period of years shows the following relation between grade enrollment in any year and the number of births from 6 to 11 years earlier).
Grade I
119% of births 6 years earlier
Grade II
105% of births 7 years earlier
Grade III
101% of births 8 years earlier
Grade IV
98% of births 9 years earlier
Grade V
96% of births 10 years earlier
Grade VI
92% of births 11 years earlier
Table III. Forecast of Elementary Enrollments from 1948-1959, also of the Number of Classrooms needed to Accomodate These Enrollments.
Enrollments
Classrooms Needed*
1948 - 1208
41
1949 - 1281
44
1950 - 1308
44
1951 - -- 1297
44
1952 - 1375
47
1953 - 1516
52
1954 - - 1582
54
1955 - 1623
55
1956 -- 1701
58
1957 - 1821
62
1958 - 1829
62
1959 - 1769
60
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* Enrollments forecasted for 1954 to 1959 are based on estimated births during the period 1948 to 1953.
** On basis of 30 pupils per classroom as an average plus two rooms for 30 practical arts pupils.
ELEMENTARY BUILDINGS NEEDED BY SEPTEMBER 1952
On the basis of the pupil-teacher ratio used, namely 30 pupils to the teacher as average, we are now in 1948 short by four classrooms since we have but 37 full-size classrooms in our seven elementary buildings. These in- clude one basement room. This situation accounts for our relatively high pupil-teacher ratios. We now have 28 classes over 30 and ten classes under 30.
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