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PROGRAM AND PLANS
The establishment of the regional school organization was expected to provide improved educational advantages for the pupils of the member towns. As the operation of the regional school progresses it is reassuring to notice three things in particular : grouping of pupils in accordance with general ability levels is being carried out to a greater degree than was possible with smaller enrollments; sub- ject matter in several areas is being presented earlier to more capable pupils, e. g., algebra 1 in grade eight, biology in grade nine, etc ; and a special class is in operation to pro- vide specialized instruction for pupils handicapped by mental retardation.
A major objective of education is to foster the develop- ment of each individual to the extent of his capability. We believe that the procedures mentioned here are real ad- vantages for that development. Futhermore, they provide a foundation for the expansion of the academic areas of the curriculum, so that in the future advanced work may be included in the high school program. Such provision appears of vital importance in the face of the demands to be made on the public schools in the years ahead.
ACHIEVEMENT TEST RESULTS
Part of our annual testing program is the administra- tion of standardized achievement tests. These serve to ac- quaint the school and the individual pupil with a measure-
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ment of accomplishment in the broad general areas of the curriculum. From the results the school may know in which areas it is strong, where weaknesses lie, and how its achieve- ment compares with other American high schools. During the four years that this program has been in effect our pupils have scored well, but showed less achievement in math- ematics and social studies than in other areas. Gains were apparent each year, however, and this year each class (grades 9-12) achieved a median score at the ninety-ninth percen- tile. This meanss that only one percent of the classes in a vast sampling of high schools across the nation showed better achievement than ours.
It seems fair to deduct from these results that we have a strong student body-perhaps one already strength- ened by our recent amalgamation.
SALARY ADMINISTRATION
A salary scale and personnel policy had been adopted late in 1958 as part of the basis for making an operating budget for 1959. This scale was identical with the scale then in effect for Orleans High School with a starting rate of $3,600. for an A.B. degree. The 1959 legislature enacted a law setting the starting rate at $4,000. effective September 1, 1960.
Representatives of the Nauset Teachers Association asked for a starting rate of $4,200. with a corresponding increase of $600. at each step in the scale, together with an increase in the annual improvement increment from $200. to $250. They suggested that the Committee might take two years to get everyone on this new schedule. The Com- mittee was unwilling to make any commitment beyond one year, and after a week of careful consideration it voted unaminously to establish a scale with a minimum of $4,000, and a maximum of $6,000. for a B.A. degree; $4,300. to $6,900. for an M.A. degree; and $4,500. to $7,500. for an A.M. degree plus 30 hours and to place the staff on the pro- per steps of the schedule as of September 1, 1960.
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The Committee was glad to increase the starting rate to $4,000. although it had no alternative in view of the action of the legislature. It would have liked to raise the starting rate to $4,200. but this would have involved pro- hibitive increases or destroyed the schedules. In its judg- ment the latter would be undesirable at this time partic- ularly in view of the high degree of balance in the spread of the present faculty roster between short, medium and long periods of service.
If there is to be a schedule it is fallacious to assume that the bottom step can be changed without a comparable adjustment in the second step and so on to the top of the scale. The starting rate will be increased from $3,600 to $4,000, an increase of $400. September 1, 1959. The second step on the present schedule is $3,800. If only the starting rate is raised, then a teacher hired September 1, 1959 or after, would be paid $4,000. his first year - reduced to $3,800. his second year and restored to $4,000. his third year. The same reduction and restoration would occur on the first two move-ups at every other step in the ten year schedule, and the current faculty includes one or more teachers at 7 of the ten steps in the Schedule.
The teachers' representatives suggested that a joint committee of teachers, public and Committee be set up to study particular aspects of Regional salary administration. The Committee would be happy to join in such a joint enter- prise on an exploratory basis if its agenda could be broad- ened to a consideration, the general salary administration for a public school system with special attention to the desirability and practicability of applying more merit treat- ment in it.
Financial Statement
RECEIPTS
Cash on Hand
$1,279,959.76
Eastham Assessment
46,961.01
Orleans Assessment
101,122.70
Wellfleet Assessment
53,147.50
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Federal Withholding Tax
7,449.10
State Withholding Tax
663.13
Barnstable County Retirement
541.96
Teacher Insurance
170.61
Federal Funds
66.67
Interest on Treasury Notes
19,926.11
Sale of Boiler
150.00
Construction Re-Imbursement
24,927.10
Region's Share State Withholding Tax
4.45
Refund Construction Account
5.00
Cafeteria Receipts
4,855.81
Athletic Receipts
416.25
Teacher Retirement
2,596.17
Massachusetts Hospital Service
884.00
$1,543,847.33
PAYMENTS
Federal Withholding Tax
$ 7,449.10
State Withholding Tax
663.13
Barnstable County Retirement
541.96
Teacher Retirement
2,596.17
Massachusetts Hospital Service
884.00
Teacher Insurance
170.61
Construction
1,052,758.80
General Control
5,666.51
Instruction
62,976.37
Operation
15,670.53
Maintenance
584.76
Auxiliary Agencies
9,098.84
Capital Costs
123,600.00
Cafeteria
6,041.48
Athletic Account
774.91
CASH ON HAND DECEMBER 31, 1959
243,370.16
$1,543,847.33
BALANCE SHEET FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1959
Cash on Hand Dec. 31, 1959 $ 243,370.16
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
1,515,000.00
Excess and Deficiency
School Construction
124,143.41 1,515,000.00
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Construction Costs Maintenance (Encumbered) Athletic Account Federal Funds Cafeteria
115,947.17
757.24
641.34
66.67
1,814.33
Cash on and Dec. 31, 1959
$1,758,370.16 $243,370.16
$1,758,370.16
Cash in Second Bank
State Street Trust
15,813.85
Cash in Cape Cod Trust Co.
131,953.06
Cash in First National Bank of Provincetown
95,603.25
$243,370.16
$243,370.16
Respectfully submitted,
L. ISABELLE BRACKETT, Treasurer
EXPENDITURES, 1959* and BUDGET 1960
OPERATION
1959*
1960
General Control
$ 6,061.93
$ 10,975.00
Instruction
63,034.81
165,504.00
Operation
15,006.02
37,550.00
Maintenance
584.76
4,000.00
Auxiliary Agencies
9,384.59
16,072.00
Overlay
Contingencies
3,000.00
5,000.00
Total
$97,072.11
$239,101.00
*Operational costs in 1959 were for approximately one-third year.
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SPECIAL ACCOUNTS
Athletics
Out-of-State Travel
$1,000.00 500.00
LOAN COSTS
1959
1960
Principal
$ 85,000.00
$ 80,000.00
Interest
49,600.00
46,965.00
$134,600.00
$126,965.00
Credits
34,786.79
24,927.10
Net Cost
$99,813.21
$102,037.90
ASSESSMENTS
1959
1960
Eastham
Operation (21.7%)
$22,007.71
(23.8%)
$57,263.04
Building (25%)
24,953.30
(25%)
25,509.48
O.H.S. Payment
3,000.00
Total
$46,961.01
$85,772.52
Orleans
Operation (50.5%)
$51,216.09
(51.1%) $122,947.11
Building (50%)
49,906.61
(50%)
51,018.95
Total
$101,122.70
$173,966.06
Wellfleet
Operation (27.8%)
$28,194.20
(25.1%)
$60,390.85
Building (25%)
24,953.30
(25%)
25,509.47
O.H.S. Payment
3,000.00
Total
$53,157.50
$88,900.32
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CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT
Expended Dec. 31, 1959
Estimated Additional
Building
$1,294,414.65
$109,370.11
Architect and
Engineering
110,204.88
3,145.09
Eqiupment
83,851.37
32,203.63
Sitework
116.00
Insurance
4,101.85
Advertising
74.43
Other
10.34
Totals
$1,492,773.52
$144,718.83 $1,637,±92.35
Financing Provisions
Three-Town Appropriation
$ 10,000.00
Twenty-Year Bond Issue
1,600,000.00
Interest on U. S. Treasury Notes
23,612.00
State Planning Reimbursement
72,900.00
$1,706,512.00
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FACULTY
Armand A. Guarino
Principal
Dartmouth College, Harvard Univ., M. Ed.
Simmons College, B. S.
Clarke University, Boston University, M. A.
Princeton, Ph. D.
McGill University,
Harvard Univ., M. Ed.
Tufts College, B. S.
Fitchburg T.C., B.S.
University, Vt.
Edward A. Dickinson John P. Donahue
Physical Education
Dartmouth College, A.B.
Knox College, A.B.
Thomas R. Downie W. David Edwards Bradley Fisk, Jr.
French
English
Univ. Rochester, B.A.
Social Studies
Swarthmore College, Clark Univ., A.M.
Dorothy Fulcher David A. Gates
Social Studies
Bridgewater, T.C., B.S.E.
Science
Stonehill College, Bridgewater, T.C., M. Ed.
Elisabeth Hooker
English
Smith College, M.A.
Mary A.Leary
Commercial
Boston Univ., M.C.S.
Georgia R. Lowell
English
Tufts College, A.B.
Leo P. Miller
Special Class
Fitchburg, T.C., B.S.E.
Betty D. Murphy Edward F. O'Brien
Science
Boston College, Boston T.C., M.Ed.
John F. O'Hara
Industrial Arts
Bridgewater, T. C.
Herbert F. Pettengill
Science
Univ. of Maine, B.S.Ed.
Carolyn M. Richardson
Commercial
Boston Univ .. B.S.
Stanley E. Smith, Jr.
Mathematics
Boston Univ., M. Ed.
Martha H. Turnbull
Physical Education
Trenton, T.C., B.S.
Edward E. Bolton
Art
Frank B. James
Music
Dulce W. Ryder
Music
Tufts College Bridgewater, T.C., M.Ed. N. E. Conserv. B.M. Boston Univ., B.M.
Phyllis A. Baker
Stanley B. Boynton
S. Stewart Brooks Moncrieff Cochran, Jr.
Language-Soc. Stud. Guidance
Richard W. Cochran
Mathematics
Industrial Arts
Elizabeth T. Collins
Home Economics
Social Studies
Boston Univ., B. S.
Bernard C. Collins, Jr.
Librarian-English Mathematics
French & English
Tufts College, A.B.
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PUPIL ENROLLMENT - OCTOBER 1, 1959
Grade
Orleans
Brewster
Eastham Wellfleet
Truro
Totai
7
46
0
24
29
1
100
8
30
0
12
27
0
69
9
38
2
10
16
1
67
10
27
3
14
9
1
54
11
31
T
17
11
2
68
12
30
3
17
59
202
15
94
99
7
417
Respectfully submitted,
Eastham-Orleans-Wellfleet Regional School District Committee
Winthrop A. Griffin, Chairman Daniel J. Chisholm Joan Fletcher
Theodore L. Hicks
Charity M. Kidd
Kathleen M. VanBuskirk
Richard J. Vander May
L. Isabelle Brackett, Secretary-Treasurer
Charles E. Frazier, Jr., Counsel
Sydney G. Pierce, Superintendent
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ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND THE
OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
TOWN of EASTHAM
OF
EAST
NMOJ
FOR THE YEAR
1959
ORGANIZATION FOR THE YEAR 1959
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Alton C. Crosby, Chairman
Term Expires 1961
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Collins
Term Expires 1962*
Mrs. Dorcas Gill
Term Expires 1960*
Term Expires 1960
Theodore L. Hicks *Mrs Collins resigned in July 1959
*Mrs. Gill replaced her same date
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Sydney G. Pierce
SUPERVISOR OF ATTENDANCE Winifred Knowles
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN Dr. Walter F. Whitright
SCHOOL NURSE Mrs. May Dunphy, R.N.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
1959 Expended
1960 Requested
General Control:
School Committee Expenses
$280.11
Superintendent of Schools Enforcement of Law
Salaries and Travel
$ 2,095.42
Other Expenses of General Control
307.40
$2,682.93
$ 2,975.00
Instruction :
Supervisors
$5,186.87
Principal and Teachers
30,049.82
Textbooks
617.64
Supplies
1,389.41
$37,243.74
$40,427.00
Operation :
Janitors
$3,649.92
Fuel
1,964.06
Miscellaneous-Electricity,
Janitors' Supplies, etc.
1,342.56
$6,956.54
$ 6,850.00
Maintenance :
Repairs, Replacements & Upkeep
$1,224.86
$ 1,200.00
Auxiliary Agencies :
Library $ 181.43
Health-Physician, Nurse, Supplies
1,920.17
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Transportation
13.860.57
Miscellaneous-Telephone, Films,
Insurance, Tuition
22,224.90
$38.187.07
$21,833.00
Outlay :
New Equipment
600.52
$ 3,860.00
Contingencies
Totals
$86.895.69
$76.260.00
Appropriation 1959
$90.975.00
Refund
11.00
$90,986.00
Credit P.L. (Reduction on acct. of)
1,500.00
$89,486.00
Expended 1959
86.895.69
Unexpended
$ 2,590.31
NET COST OF SCHOOLS
Total Expenditure
$86,895.69
Accounts Receivable :
School Funds & State Aid
$2.625.13
(Chapter 70)
Chapter 71-All School Transportation
12,703.30
Reimbursement for
Accounts of Superintendent of Schools 655.57
Reimbursement for Retarded Children 215.87
$16,199.87
Net Cost of Schools
$70.695.82
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SCHOOL LUNCH DEPARTMENT
Receipts
Expenses
Sale of School Lunch-1959
$3,414.58
Federal Subsidies
1,583.63
Salaries
$2,135.00
Equipment and Food
2,928.35
$4,998.21
$5,063.35
1959 Appropriation
800.00
Expended
800.00
Requested for 1960
$800.00
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Appropriation 1959
$1,000.00
Expended
532.88
Unexpended
$ 467.12
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EASTHAM SCHOOL COMMITTEE REPORT
The Eastham School Committee hereby submits its an- nual report.
The 1959 session opened with the regular staff of teach- ers, lunch manager and custodian.
After considerable thought was given to the location of the new tennis court, which was voted in Town Meeting 1958, the Committee finally approved the area to be used and it was subsequently constructed by the Recreation Com- mision.
A used 22-quart food mixer was purchased for $175.00 and was welcomed by the cafeteria staff. New lighting and desks enhance the third grade room and one other room has been redecorated. The outside trim has also been painted.
Due to both increased high school loads and requests by numerous parents for re-routing of school buses, new routes were established and a 59-passenger bus was re- quired on Route #2.
Bus bids were opened in June and contracts were awarded to Arthur Nickerson, Alonzo Gill and Walter Mac- Pherson, the latter replacing Nathan Clark who faithfully served the schools for over twenty years.
After sixteen years of service Mrs. Elizabeth Collins resigned as secretary of the Eastham School Committee to accept the Home Economics teaching position at Nauset Regional High School. Mrs. Dorcas Gill was appointed by the selectmen to fill the vacancy until next election.
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We hereby wish to join the Town in an expression of gratitude for services rendered by Mrs. Elizabeth Collins and Nathan Clark.
In conjunction with the newly coordinated mathematics program established by the elementary school teachers of the three towns and elementary supervisor the sum of $255.16 was appropriated for the purchase of new mathe- matics text books which are now in use.
It was voted to delay opening of Eastham School until September 14th to conform with the high school and to in- crease school hours to 3:00 P.M.
Additional playground equipment has been purchased and $167.70 has been approved for science education ma- terial on a Federal matching funds program.
The School Committee attended two Union #54 meet- ings at which the three town combination continued to operate harmoniously.
Once again the Committee discussed kindergarten in the Eastham School and made provision for same in the 1960 budget so as to be prepared to start in September if pos- sible.
Respectfully submitted,
ALTON C. CROSBY, Chairman DORCAS M. GILL, Secretary THEODORE L. HICKS
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee and Citizens of Eastham
In keeping with custom I submit herewith my fifth in the series of annual reports of the superintendent of schools of this town.
The towns of our section of Cape Cod have experienced a series of changes in school organization since late in 1956 when Eastham, Orleans and Wellfleet agreed upon a re- gional school district organization for grades 7 - 12 of those towns. There followed in 1957 a reorganization of the three superintendency unions serving seven towns of the lower Cape, the purpose of which was to have the organization of towns the same for elementary school children as it was to be for pupils at junior and senior high school level.
1958 was a year of planning and preparation for the operational changes that would take place in 1959. Con- struction was started on Nauset Regional High School. Speci- cations for furnishings and equipment were drawn. And budgetary preparations were made for fiscal alterations that would effect all three of the towns.
In September 1959 there occurred the culmination of long planning and preparation :
1. Nauset Regional High School opened. Approximately 415 boys and girls entered, and most of the people of the 13 - 18 year age bracket from this three-town area were united as a single student body.
2. Little apparent change was involved for Eastham,
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because older pupils had been attending school outside the boundaries of the town for many years. But now, for the first time, Eastham had an official voice in the secondary education of its youth, through its direct representatives to the Regional School District Committee. The many years of tuition arrangements with Orleans were ended, and East- ham had a share in the privileges, responsibilities and owner- ship of the public schools available to all its school age children.
3. In Orleans, too, the transition was greater at the level of principle than of practice. For this town it meant a sharing of autonomy in the operation of its public schools. This is a hurdle that was cleared by many American com- munities during the 1950s, and one that remains for many more to clear in the decade ahead, as communities are able to view and approach their common problems coopera- tively.
4. The Town of Wellfleet has faced the throes of meta- morphosis in both theory and practice. As in Orleans, the change meant sharing with other towns the authority of school operation for some of its pupils. For Wellfleet it also meant sending many of its pupils across a bordering town and into the next, a dozen or more miles away. In addition, its consolidated school was converted for element- ary school use only. Among the towns it seems apparent that here somewhat more adjustment was required.
Now we have two forms of school organization oper- ating simultaneously and effecting each town alike : a super- intendency union for the elementary schools (Grades 1 - 6), and a regional school district for the older pupils (Grades 7 - 12). Under the former, each town has its own school building, served by a local school committee. The latter maintains one building, located in Orleans, served by a single representative committee. A superintendent and special subject supervisors are employed jointly.
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COST OF OPERATION
Gross Cost for Operation
1955
Local
$ 67,189.66
1956 $ 78,322.82
1957 $ 87,113.11
1958 $ 97,206.97
1959 $ 86,895.69 22,007.71
Region
Reimburse-
ments
15,542.50
17,504.69
18,991.86
20,665.59
20,855.84
Net Costs
51,647.16
60,818.13
68,121.25
76,361.38
88,047.56
Valuation
4,142,825.00
4,384,495.00
4,766,415.00
5,107,075.00
5,509,030.00
Tax for School
Operation
12.47
13.87
14.29
14.95
15.98
No. of Pupils
201
203
196
212
217
Gross Cost Per Pupil
334.27
385.82
444.54
457.67
501.86
Net Cost Per
Pupil
256.95
299.60
347.55
360.20
405.75
It will be noted that operational costs have arisen again this year, but it should be noted also that gross and net costs and tax for operation have increased only by about the same percentage that they have averaged over the past five years. Per pupil costs are expected to be high until enrollments increase at the regional school.
CONCLUSION
These are exciting years in the field of education. The public schools are receiving unprecedented scrutiny, and findings and opinions are being communicated by means of the greatest media ever known. For many months nationally distributed periodicals have featured articles on education regularly ; radio and television broadcasts have directed at- tention toward the schools; people of national and inter- national renown have spoken out on the subject.
Two salient points emerging from this concentration of attention are (1) the need to encourage every child
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to learn as well as he is able, so that there may be no waste of talent and (2) the need for pupils to understand as well as remember what they learn, so that there may be a solid foundation upon which to build indefinitely in a world that is exploding with new knowledge.
Our schools are responding to current stimuli, and we must constantly revise in an age that is characterized by change. When you visit your local school you will notice differences from your own elementary school days. More small group and individual work is being done. Pupils are using more reference materials and simple research tech- niques than was common a few years ago, when encyclopedia in each classroom would have been considered extravagant. Increasing use is made of audio-visual assistance in teaclı- ing. More emphasis is given to independent reading, and library corners are growing in classrooms.
In the years ahead more of these things should be done. The development of individual initiative and skills, the use of electronic teaching devices, and ever-broadened pupil in- terests all will be essential to improvement in education. In the past, according to Margaret Mead, education has "at- tempted not so much to add to the sum total of knowledge as to increase the skill of its manipulation." In the future it will be increasingly important to develop a facility for acquiring tomorrow that knowledge that does not exist today.
I wish to express gratitude for the privilege of serving in this field, at this time, in this place, and with these people.
Respectfully submitted
SYDNEY G. PIERCE Superintendent of Schools
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REPORT OF THE ELEMENTARY SUPERVISOR
To the School Committee and Citizens of Eastham :
I hereby submit my third annual report as Elementary Supervisor of School Union No. 54.
Last June the combined faculty of School Union No. 54 completed a year long evaluation and study of the arith- metic program in an effort to upgrade the curriculum in this area. Through a series of union meetings, the aims and objectives in the teaching of arithmetic were discussed ; new methods and materials were studied; and a series of new arithmetic texts were examined to determine the series best suited to our pupils' needs. When the selection was narrowed to four texts, arrangements were made for the consultants of each company to hold meetings with the faculty to explain more fully their program. At the final meeting in the spring, the teachers adopted the Growth in Arithmetic series, published by World Book Company. The school committees of each town voted to purchase these texts for grades one through six to be put in use this fall.
Miss Nell Seften, Arithmetic Consultant for World Book Company, held a two-day workshop with the teachers in September, during which time she demonstrated methods and materials for the most effective use of the new texts.
This year under the curriculum improvement program we plan to work in the area of written language. Arrange- ments have been made for Dr. B. Alice Crossley, Professor of Language Arts at B. U. School of Education, to conduct a workshop in the teaching of written language for the teachers of Union No. 54. The workshop will be held during the April vacation to allow three full days of concentrated effort.
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We have long recognized the need for a more func- tional approach to the spelling program. Repeatedly, the scores obtained on the Stanford Achievement Tests have indicated spelling as our weak area. Perhaps our method of teaching spelling as a separate subject, with isolated lists of words, has been in part the reason for this. For the past few years grades one and two have been using a language- arts spelling program which correlates spelling with the overall development of the language skills. This program teachers spelling by the word-group method; the same prin- ciples of word recognition that are taught in reading are extended into the spelling program. This year we are ex- tending this program through the fourth grade.
A Special Class for the pupils of Union No. 54, whose needs were not profiting by the education offered by re- gular grades, was started this fall at the Wellfleet Elemen- tary School. Mrs. Suzanne McKeown was elected to teach this class and is doing fine work in meeting the needs of these children. At present there are ten pupils attending this class; four from Orleans, two from Eastham, and four from Wellfleet.
No major changes have been undertaken in the testing program. We continue to administer group mental abilities tests annually in kindergarten, grades one, three and six, and the Stanford Binet Intelligence Test is given to indi- viduals were further evaluation is felt needed The Stanford Achievement Tests are given in May to all grades, to help provide the school with a record of individual pupil growth, and to determine weaknesses and strengths throughout the curriculum.
Respectfully submitted, BARBARA N. WRIGHT
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EASTHAM PRINCIPAL'S REPORT
1959
For the first time in many years there have been no changes in either our regular teaching staff or in its super- visors. This should mean a year of great progress for every one. Unlike most schools, we are not overcrowded in any grade. This is due in great measure to the numerous East- ham pupils attending the St. Joan of Arc School in Orleans.
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