Byram Consolidated School

Byram School and Teacher's Home

TEACHERS:

E. L. Busby, Principal, Byram            Miss Jonnie Hollingsworth, Byram    

Miss Susie Keithley, Byram                Mrs. C. B. Whittington, Byram

TRUSTEES:

G. W. McCluer, E. B. Lewis, N. B. Davis.

LOCATION:

This school is 9 miles south of Jackson.

GROUNDS:

Twenty-acre lot; ample playground and well kept; sufficient number of small pecan and magnolia shade trees; grounds in good condition; two sanitary toilets.

BUILDING:

$8,000.00 building; four class rooms and auditorium seated with opera chairs; well lighted; new building with outside painted, inside being plas­tered and beaver boards; in excellent condition and well kept.

EQUIPMENT:

Single patent desks, hyloplate blackboards, maps, 2 globes, few pictures, excellent bookcase and several library books, cistern, individual drinking cups, hot air furnace.

ORGANIZATION:

Four teachers;11 grades; 152 pupils in district; 150 pupils enrolled; 125 daily average; canning, poultry and corn clubs; community meetings; monthly report cards; flowers in yard. First Class, making 114 points.

EXPENSES:

District Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,726.36

Teachers, County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,050.00

Transportation, County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847.00

Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,623.36