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JIM: School attendance was at 56.4% in 1910

By JIM

According to a 1910 census bulletin released some years afterward (late 1914 or early 1915), the school attendance in Adair County, by age group, was as follows:
  • Ages 6 to 9: 1,013 of 1,700 (59.6%)
  • Ages 10 to 14: 1,423 of 1,940 (73.4%)
  • Ages 15 to 17: 558 of 1.062 (52.5%)
  • Ages 18 to 20: 221 of 995 (22.2%)
  • Total, all ages: 3,215 of 5,697 (56.4%)
In 1910, compulsory school attendance laws in Kentucky still were a couple of years in the future. Nearly every one of the 221 students in the 18 to 20 age bracket was attending common school, as the Columbia Graded School had opened just the previous fall and the high school division, not accredited until the fall of 1910, had only about half a dozen enrollees during the 1909-10 school year. - JIM




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