WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)SCHOOLS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY |
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SCHOOLSAnnex BuildingArrowhead Elementary School Bellevue (Pintura) School Bloomington Schoolhouse Crimson Cliffs High School Desert Hills High School Dixiana Girls Dormatory Dixie Applied Technology College (DXATC) Dixie High School Dixie Junior High School (Woodward Junior High School, Dixie Middle School) Dixie Stake Academy (St. George Stake Academy, Dixie College, Dixie Junior College) Dixie State College Dixie State University Dixie Technology College (DixieTech) Duncan's Retreat School East Elementary School Enterprise First School Enterprise Second School Enterprise High School First Ward School Fourth Ward School Grafton Old Log School Grafton School House Gunlock School (???) Gunlock School - Original Gunlock School - Old Hurricane Elementary School Hurricane Elementary School II Hurricane Elementary School III Hurricane High School Hurricane Intermediate School Hurricane Middle School Institute for Continued Learning (ICL) LaVerkin School Leeds Rock Church and School Leeds Schoolhouse Millcreek High School New Harmony School Pine View High School Pinto Ward and School Rocky Vista University Second Ward School Santa Clara Adobe School Santa Clara Elementary School Santa Clara School Silver Reef Schoolhouse Snow Canyon High School St. George Elementary School St. George Normal School St. George Stake Academy St. Mary's School Sunset Elementary School Tent School Third Ward School Toquerville School Tuacahn High School for the Performing Arts Washington School Water Canyon High School West Elementary School Willow School House Woodward School Woodward Annex Building Miscellaneous Schools Outside Washington County (but closely related) Gentile School (Arizona Strip, Arizona) Mt. Trumbull School (Bundyville, Arizona) HISTORYIn 1890, the $2.50 per term (typically two to three months) tuition was abolished as free public schools were established. The four St. George school districts were combined into one and the school term was lengthened.In June of 1915, the county's nineteen school districts were consolidated into one. County School Superindendents: George A. Burgon (1868-1872) Joseph E. Johnson (1872-1877) Miles P. Romney (1877-1881) Adolphus R. Whitehead (1881) Moroni Snow (1881-1883) Joseph Orton (1883-1885) John T. Woodbury (1886-1891) Levi N. Harmon (1891-1900) Charles A. Workman (1901-1907) Edward H. Snow (1907-1908) W. O. Nisson (1909-1912) Charles B. Petty (1913-1915) Matthew Bentley (1915-1929) Milton R. Moody (1929-1958) T. LaVoy Esplin (1958-1979) Jack F. Burr (1979-1985) Steven H. Peterson (1985-1996) Kolene Granger (1996-2003) Max Rose (2003-6/28/2013) Larry Bergeson (7/1/2013) Washington County School District Enrollment: 1915 2,059 1964 3,379 1972 4,215 1982 6,782 1992 13,363 1996 17,391 or 17,915 2000 18,323 2006 23,160 REFERENCESWashington County School DistrictOfficial Website Wikipedia Article First Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Utah for the School Year Ending June 30, 1806. Salt Lake City, 1897. Selections dealing with teacher preparation. Starting of education in Southern Utah Josephine J. Miles, "History of Education in St. George" A paper read at the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, St. George Chapter 28 Meeting, January 28, 1923 Eleanor C. W. Jarvis, "Data on school teachers and schools attended by Eleanor C. W. Jarvis" WCHS-00324 Photo of the first PTA Council organized in St. George, 1959 Newspaper article about Washington County School District salaries for 1969-1970 Andrew Karl Larson, "I Was Called to Dixie" Chapter 32, pp. 544-564 Douglas D Alder and Karl F Brooks, "A History of Washington County From Isolation to Destination" pp. 65-67, 131-138, 226, 228, 230-237, 273, 278-279, 321-322, 334-336, 340, 364-367, 399-400 Washington County D.U.P., " Under Dixie Sun - A History of Washington County". pp. 222-225, 246-247, 277, 298-302, 353, 396, 407, 411-414 1978 Supplement, pp. 16, 25-26 "Presbyterian Schools in Utah" Book by John Mahon, Douglas D. Alder, and Barnard H. Seegmiller St. George: Dixie State College of Utah, 1996, 2002 Early Schools of Santa Clara By Bonnie Lynne Graf, February 27, 1981 Robert Hafen Moss, "An Historical Study of the Factors Influencing the Organization of Education in Washington County, 1852-1915" Master's Thesis, Brigham Young University, 1961 "Our Country School Heritage" An oral history project of Southern Utah State College in cooperation with the Mountain Plains Library Association Book by Marian Delapp Woolsey, Bernella Elizabeth Gardner Jones, Hans LaVell Chamerlain, Jean Evans Morrison, Mary Miles Kleinman, Inez Stevens Cooper, Fred Wahlquist, Grant Hafen, David Jensen, Nada Gillis Gardner, Sharon Grant Prince, Edwin Verl Kelsey, and Viola Woodbury Kelsy http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39761499&referer=brief_results "Your Washington County Schools Today", St. George Spectrum Supplement, May 29, 1995. "Building a Community: Teaching with Historic Buildings in Washington County" by Lisa Thompson Salt Lake City: Utah Heritage Foundation, 2003 http://www.utahheritagefoundation.com/education/teachers-guides/79-washingtoncounty To download, click here. |
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