Publication Date
4-15-1941
Pamphlet Number
79
Document Type
Pamphlet
Description
During recent years, enrollments in most South Dakota elementary schools have declined at a very rapid rate. The prevailing type of rural school district organization in most counties has proved rather ineffective in coping with dwindling enrollments and with the consequent high costs per pupil. It is the purpose of this pamphlet to assist educators, school board members and other Custer County leaders, by analyzing the nature of the problem and by presenting suggestions for its solution; as they have grown out of the experiences of other South Dakota communities. This study was made possible through the cooperation of the State and Federal Work Projects Administration and the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. The project is officially designated as W. P.A. Project No. 265-1-74-57. The authors gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of Miss Martha Currier, the Custer County Superintendent of Schools, from whose office most of the data used in this study were secured; and of high school superintendents who supplied lists of their tuition students.
Number of Pages
13
Format
application/pdf
Publisher
South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station
Disciplines
Rural Sociology
Recommended Citation
Kumlien, W. F.; Sauer, Howard M.; and Scandrette, C., "The Problem of Declining Enrollment in the Elementary Schools of Custer County" (1941). Agricultural Experiment Station Rural Sociology Pamphlets (1940-1977). 79.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_rural-socio/79