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FOREWORD

An intensive and comprehensive study is being carried on in each
county in Kentucky to determine the exact status of the present school
system and to plan a more efficient and economical educational pro-
gram for the future. The study is being sponsored by this ofﬁce and
lsbeing' ﬁnanced by the federal government as Ofﬁcial Project 5-119,
“A Study of Local School Units”.

This report, “A Study of School. Attendance Areas in Franklin
County”, was prepared by the survey staff with the help of local
School authorities and other interested citizens. It presents a clear
Plcture of the present status of the Franklin County school system
and sets up a desirable future school program. Although conditions
We? widely throughout the State, it is believed that Franklin County
Istairly typical and that a study of this report will prove helpful to
School ofﬁcials throughout the State. A similar report will be pre—
pared by the survey staff, with the help of local school ofﬁcials, for
each county in the State.

.I commend this bulletin to all school authorities and forward-
ooklng citizens for careful study and analysis.

H. W. PETERS,
Superintendent Public Instruction.

T ABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER Page

I. General Information Relative to Franklin County .........................

History of Franklin County ________________________________________
Geography and Topography of Franklin County
Land Use in Franklin County .................................................
Transportation and Communication in Franklin County
Social Considerations
The Stewart Home ...........................
Frankfort ..............
Population and School Census Trends in Franklin County and
Frankfort ...........................

II. Ability and Effort to Finance the Educational Program ........................ 11

Present Districts
Wealth and Tax _.
Financial Receipts

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Expenditures _______
Occupations, Indus 11es and Other Factors Affecting the Financing
of the Future School Plograln in Franklin County ...................... 15
Occupations and Industries -15
Factors Affecting Future School Suppo1t ........................................ 15
III. Status of Present School Attendance Areas ........................................... 17

Enr,ollme11t Attendance, and Cost Factors __________________________________________ 17
P1og1ess of White Elementaiy Pupils in the F1anklin County
School District .3;

Teaching Personnel and Schools ________
Transportation in the Franklin County School District.
Buildings and Sites in Franklin County District ....................................

Present School Buildings and Attendance Areas in Franklin37

County ...........................................................................................

Summary ..
IV. Proposed School Attendance Areas ______________________________________________________________ 45
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Bald Knob S-grade school center ________________________________________________________
Peaks Mill 9—grade school center
Thornhill 6-grade school center ...............
Bridgeport 9—grade school center ___________
Forks of Elkhorn G-grade school center
Frankfort lz-grade school center .......................
The Negro School ________________

V. Cost of the Proposed Program ________________________________________________________________

Principals and Teachers Salaries ______________
Cost of Proposed Transportation
Cost of Incidentals ___________________________
Cost of Needed School Buildings ................. "
Recommended First Step in Putting the Program into Operatlonu-

VI. Summary and Recommendations ........................................................

Summary of Status ..................................................................
Summary of Recommendations .............................................................

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I. General Population Trends of Franklin County and Frankfort
School Districts ...................................................................................... 8
II. Trends in White School Census ............................................................ 9
III. Trends in Colored School Census ............... 9
IV. Tax Levies and Assessed Valuations for Franklin County and
Frankfort Independent School Districts ........................................ 12
V. Financial Receipts for School Support in Franklin County,
1934- 1935 .................................................... 12
VI. Expenditures £01 School P111 poses in F1a11k11n County, 1934- 1935 13

VII. Franklin County White Elementary Attendance Areas by ' ' , 'f'l
Schools Showing Grades Taught, Number of Teachers, E11-

: rollment, Average Daily Attendance, Average Number per

‘ Teacher Based on Enrollment, Instructional Cost per Pupil

Based on Enrollment, and Total Cost per Pupil Based on En-

rollment for School Year, 1934-1935 ................................................ 18

VIII. Franklin County High School Attendance Areas by Schools
Showing Grades Taught, Number of Teachers, Enrollment, . _
Average Daily Attendance, Average Number per Teacher ‘ 1i
Based on Enrollment, Instructional Cost per Pupil Based , ‘
011 Enrollment and Total Cost per Pupil Based on Enroll-
ment for 1934-1935 ................................................................................ 19

IX. Franklin County Colored Elementary School Attendance Areas
by Schools Showing Grades Taught, Number of Teachers,
Enrollment, Average Daily Attendance, Average Number per
Teacher Based on Enrollment, Instructional Cost per Pupil
Based on Eniollment and Total Cost per Pupil Based on En-

rollment for 1934- 1935 ................. .. 19
X. Trends in White Elementary Emollment in Fianklin County by A ‘ "
Schools ...................................................................................................... 21 31,“, ‘ ‘.‘
XI. Trends in White High School Enrollment in Franklin County '2 ‘
, School District, 1934—1935 .................................................................... 22
XII. Trends in Enrollment in the Frankfort White High School,
1 1926—1935 ................ 22
XIII. Trends in White Elementary School Enrollment in Frankfort
by Schools 23
l XIV. Trend in Colored Elementary Enrollment in Franklin County by
Schools 23
? XV. Trend in Frankfort Colored Elementary School Enrollment,
1926—1935 .................................................................................................. 23
I XVI- Tl‘end in Frankfort Colored High School Enrollment, 19264935.. 24

XVH- Pupil Piogress in the Flanklin County Distiict White Ele-
mentaIy G1ades 1— 8 by Type of School as to Numlbe1 of
TeacheIs, 1934- 1935 ........ 25

NumbeI and Per Cent of Pupils in Each Grade Making Rapid,
Normal, and Slow Progress in the Elementary Schools of.
‘ Fl‘élllklin County District, 1934‘1935 ................................................ 26

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LIST OF TABLES—(Continued)

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Teaching Personnel by Type and Size of White Elementary
Schools in Fraklin County, 1934-1935 .............................................. 26
Teaching Personnel for Franklin County White High Schools,

1934-1935 ........ 27

Teaching Personnel by Type and Size of School for Frankfort
White Elementary Schools, 1934-1935 .............................................. 28

Teaching Personnel for Frankfort White High School, 1934-
1935 ............ 23

Teaching Personnel for Franklin County District Colored Ele-
mentary School, 1934-1935 .................................................................. 29

Teaching Personnel for Frankfort Colored Elementary School,
1934 1935 ............................. 29

Teaching ‘Personnel for FrankaIt Colored High School, 1934- 9
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Number and Percentage of White Elementary Pupils Enrolled
in Franklin County Schools According to Length of Term ...... 30

Nulnlber and Percentage of White Elementary Pupils Enrolled
in Franklin County Schools According to Number of Teach-
ers, 1934-1935 ............. -30

Cost of Transportation in the Franklin County School District,
1935-1936 ____________________________________

Important Facts About School Buildings in Franklin County 35

Important Facts About Franklin County Colored Elementary ‘
School 37

Recommendations Affecting Each School in Franklin County
School District 5?

School Building Needs of Franklin County ...................................... 53
Estimated Current Cost of Proposed Schools .................................. 5”

Compaiison of Estimated Cullent Costs of Ploposed Plogram
with Those of Plesent Schools Within the Attendance Areas F
of Ploposed Centers ............................................................................ 9‘

Total Estimated Expenditures of Franklin County Schools '7
Necessary to Carry Out Complete Program -------------------------------- 3

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CHAPTER I
GENERAL INFORMATION RELATIVE TO FRANKLIN COUNTY

A. History of Franklin County

What is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky was established as
Kentucky County of Virginia by the Virginia Legislature, December
31,1776. In 1780 this county was divided into three counties: Jef-
ferson, Lincoln and Fayette, all of which cornered at Frankfort. Por-
tions of these three counties were taken to form Nelson County in
1784; Bourbon, Mercer and Madison Counties in 1785; and Mason and
Woodford Counties in 17 88. These were the nine counties that com-
prised the Commonwealth of Kentucky when it was admitted to the
Union, June 1, 1792. Franklin County was formed from portions of
Mercer, Woodford and Shelby Counties and established May 10, 1794.

At the time of its establishment, Franklin County had a much
larger area than it now has. Portions of its original area have been
taken to form Gallatin County in 1798; Owen County in 1819; and
Anderson County in 1827. Other minor divisions have taken place so
that now Franklin County has an area of only one hundred and
Ninety-nine square miles. It is about twenty miles long at its greatest
length and eighteen miles wide at its greatest width.

3. Geography and Topography of Franklin County

Franklin County is geographically located in the north central
part of the Commonwealth. It is almost equally divided by the Ken—
lud‘)’ River which flows through it from south to north.
. .ln a general way, the topography of Franklin County may be
(llrlded into four types as follows :

1. The flat or undulating ralley lands that are found along
practically all the streams of the county. Hundreds of acres
of fertile valley land are found along deserted channels on
the Kentucky River and Elkhorn Creek.

2. The abrupt cliffs and outcropping ledges of limestone which
enclose the valley lands.

3- The long sloping and more or less abrupt hills.

The more gently rolling or undulating table-lands.

Land Use in Franklin County

We ﬁlliiilfugll ‘Fraukli-n is a Bluegrass county’,‘topog1'aplly and land

are found n l( (.1 variation within its borders. lwo maJor land classes

Hle 111,101.31; tins county, the luner Bluegrass. and the laden ,Shale.

(nuntv Soutl TENTS! roughly speaking, comprises the portion of the

. 11 Count 7119. a 11:10 from Mvitzer through 11 raukfort to the Ander-

llemalll(lep)0f111}10‘ the Lden Shale formation includes most of the
le county with the exception of river bottom lands.

Map No. 1 shows the general land use best suited to a given
region. It does not attempt to depict in detail. For instance, along
the Kentucky River in the southern portion of the county, there is
some land that is now in timber which should remain in that use.
This area is so small, however, as compared with the amount of good
farm land in that area that the timber land is not shown on the map.
Likewise, in the timber area there may be small tracts of good land but
their inaccessibility condemns them for general farming purposes.

The territories designated on the map as level to gently rolling
areas suited to farming comprise themost fertile soils in the county.
They are almost entirely of Inner Bluegrass and bottom land soils.
The soils are high in phosphatic limestone and are of sufﬁcient depth
for proﬁtable farming. Crop yields are high and there is very little
waste land. This is an ideal farming region and agriculture here is
likely to intensify as population increases. It is the one portion of the
county in which closer settlement, based upon farming, is economically
sound.

The portions of the county classiﬁed as rolling to rough areas beSt
suited to pasture 0r extensive farming are Eden Shale territories.
The topography is usually so steep that the land should not be used
for cultivated crops except to get a new stand of grass. The soil which
is derived from calcareous shales is not as productive as in the Inner
Bluegrass and is subject to serious erosion when cultivated. Build-
ings in the area are poor and point to a decline in farming operations.
This area is suited to a pasture economy. The soil contains sufﬁcient
limestone and phosphorus for excellent crops of alfalfa and sweet
clover; thus farming in that area should be primarily centered arouIld
a livestock—pasture program. Only a minimum of the farm acreage
should be cultivated and the farm should be large enough that this
acreage can be obtained on reasonably level land. At present the farms
in the area are too small. Abandonment is already taking place aild
will probably continue until 20 to 25 per cent of the farm families
have left this area.

The rough area best suited to forestry comprise the most broken
portions of the Eden Shale. In that territory the slopes are steep:
rock outcrop is extensive, and erosion is serious. At present mile
of it is in brush and waste and with present economic conditions 11011,6
of it can be justiﬁed as farm land. It not abandoned, the area 15
doomed to a subsistence type of agriculture. It is almost certain that
residents in the area, if dependent upon agriculture, will not be able
to maintain schools, roads, and othergovernmental activities WI’EhO“
ﬁnancial assistance, but as a timber area the section might become an
asset to the county.

D. Transportation and Communication in Franklin County
Although Franklin County is geographically located in the 110rth
central part of Kentucky, it is centrally located as to highways 311']-
railroads. U. S. Highway N0. 60, running from Illinois to West ‘11‘
ginia, as well as State Highways Nos. 35, 37 and 40, each traverse
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of all sections of the county ready means of reaching the county—seat
and State Capitol. County roads in Franklin. County are rather ade-
quate and transportation of school children in the county is possible
at all times of the year. Map 4 shows the routes over which children
are transported to and from schools. Railroad facilities in Franklin
County are very good. The F. & C. (Frankfort and Cincinnati), the
L. & N. (Louisville and Nashville), and the C. & O. (Chesapeake and
Ohio) Railroads go through Franklin County and make stops at
Frankfort, J ett, Kennebec, Stagg and Forks of Elkhorn. The L. & N.
has six freight and ﬁve passenger trains passing over their lines daily.
The F. & C. has two freight and four passenger trains passing over
their lines daily except Sunday. The- C. & 0. has four passenger
trains daily but no freight. An average of ten million pounds of
freight passes under the Frankfort station each month.

Telephone and telegraph service is excellent in the City of Frank-

fort, but very poor outside the city. No school in the county has a
telephone.

E. Social Considerations

The social trends in Franklin County are similar to the social
trends in many other counties in Kentucky. The “Community Store”
and the rural church are rapidly disappearing. With the advent of
hotter roads and automobiles the people in the rural districts are com—
log to Frankfort more and more to attend church and to shop. Prac-
tlcally everybody in the county buys groceries in Frankfort and the
general merchandise store out in the county no longer receives the
Patronage of people shopping for clothing.

The Stewart H (mm—About three or four miles of Frankfort on
The Lawrenceburg Pike is the Stewart Home. This is a beautiful
1(”Heifer backward children who may be either mentally or physically
handlcapped. This school has in it an average of one hundred per—
3011§, who come from practically every state in the Union because it is
nationally advertised. It is a private institution and some one must
pay the fees for all persons who are admitted to the school. The
.IOme IS located on approximately a ﬁve—hundred acre campus, which
13 used to the advantage of the persons in the home.

Fm”ka7‘t.—Frankfort is the only city of mention in Franklin
aggluty. It is increasing in population while that of the county is
REY/mg Smaller. People are. movmg into or near Frankfort because
nefjlil"€€l|11.i'eceive employment in the distilleries and factories which are
for £131 Frankfort. In the past they have also been able to receive
in m 811 children better educational facﬂities 1n Frankfortthan out

16-1166 county district as has bee-n'stated elsewhere in this report.

Frankfare 110w dozens of homes being constructed or planned near
ort.

the CElrankfort is the county-seat of Franklin County and the seat_of

has allpitol ‘of Kentucky. It incorporates the State Reformatory which

m“ average number of two thousand inmates, the Feeble-Minded

- lllte With approxnnately three hundred and ﬁfty inmates, and

the State Cemetery, an ideal cemetery with one hundred acres of
table—land in which are buried many prominent men of Kentucky,
from the time of Daniel Boone to the present. It is also the home of
the Kentucky State Industrial. College for Colored Persons, with all
average attendance of ﬁve hundred and ﬁfty colored college students.
Frankfort, as well as Franklin County, has several religious and
private academic institutions in its history, most of which have disap-
peared, their places being taken by public schools.

We feel that the above trends will continue and we have been

conscious of the-m in setting up the proposed educational program in
Franklin County. '

F. Population and School Census Trends in Franklin County and
Frankfort

There are two school districts in Franklin County—the Frankfon
Independent School District, consisting of the City of Frankfort, and
the Franklin County School District, which comprises all the county
outside of Frankfort.

It is necessary to know how many people the schools are to serve

before an adequate school program can be planned. The following *

table shows the Federal Census ﬁgures from 1900 to 1930.

TABLE I
General Population Trends of Franklin County and Frankfort School Districts

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County as a wnoie i 20,352 || 21,135 i 19,357 :I 21.064
Frankfort Independent School District '| 0,4S5 ll 10,465 II 0.805 i 11152“
Franklin County School District i 11,367 i 10.070 II 9,552 1' 9,435

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This table shows that there has been a decrease in the populath11
of Franklin County, exclusive of the City of Frankfort, from 1900“]
1930, while there has been an increase in the population of Frankfort.
This is partly due to the urbanization trend of the country as a “711016
and partly due to the industries of Frankfort. _

The indicated population of Frankfort is exclusive of the mmateS
of the State institutions discussed above. There is also a ﬂuctuating
population in Frankfort due to the fact that the families and relativeS
of those persons in the State institutions often move into Frankfort to
live during the stay of their relatives in the institutions. This POPula‘
tion is further affected by the fact that the 138 members of the Ken“
tucky General Assembly live in Frankfort a part of each year. Fin].
thermore, there is an increase in the population of Frankfort: W1“:
is not indicated in the above table, due to the repeal of the eighteen”
amendment and the reopening of the several distilleries which broug 1
into Frankfort several hundred workers. .

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an is the general northward moving of the colored people from the South-
nts. e111 States. ' ‘ ‘ ,
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81% long-time school program, the trend of school census population is
very signiﬁcant. Below are tables showing this trend in Franklin
3011 County and F 'ankfort City for both the white and the colored school
in children we a period of years. This census includes all children
between the ages of six and eighteen years after the year 1918. PriOr
3‘ to this date the school census included all persons from six to twenty
llld years of age.
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l Franklm County School District {2,800 2.951 2,402 2,308 2,470 2,500 2,358 ‘
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l ‘ Frankfort Independent School District l 584 461'] 261|l 328 311 303' 300
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't ; fiankhii County exclusive ot li‘ank'tort City, during the period w
lei ‘ 10m 1910 to 1920.
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Table 11 shows that during this same period the number of per—
es :ms 111 the white school census of this same district decreased 497 and
1g 1 Hle number of colored persons in the school census increased eight.
es lf‘VEVE‘I‘, it should be noted that the school census of 1920 included
to t Hf DEX‘SOns between the ages of six to eighteen, while the school census
0- y 0 1910 included all persons from six to twenty years of age. This
.1- :ilecqunts tor the marked decrease of 497 white school census pupils
r- I 'lmlmg “HHS period, thus making the decrease in gene 'al population
:11 (111, “'hltc school census persons somewhat corresponding.
11 , f ‘Table '[ shows that the general population of the City of Frank- ‘
it {glilias increased 1821 in number over theten-ycar period from 1920 ,‘,~
. I“ {3.30. During this same period the population in the county school [
n ‘ 5 net decreased 1141 in number. ‘ ,
Table II shows that during this interval the number of persons
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i in the school census in the City of Frankfort increased 663, which is
i a greater increase proportionately than the increase in general popu-

lation.
Table II also shows that during this period the school census
of the county school district increased 7 7, thus a decrease in general A

population and an increase in the school census which would indicate
1 a lack of accuracy on the part of those taking the school census. How-
; ever, this particular situation could be possible. It is further shown

Frankfort Board of Education.

, by Table II that there has been an increase of 121 in the number of Stat
1 persons in the school census in Franklin County from 1930 to 1934. fun
i During this same period the number of persons in the city school the

census has decreased 267. This is possibly due to the fact that there the

i is a general trend among the people to have smaller families. That pro

the number of persons included in the school census of the county,

I excluding those from the City of Frankfort, decreased over the decade bee
ending 1920, is indicated in Table II. This would lead us to believe ”(1‘
that the general population also decreased over the period from 1910 Gen
to 1916, thus paradoxically showing an increase in school census and A

i i a decrease in population. However, this is not true because the gen- ‘
i l eral population did not begin to decrease until after the year 1916
‘ i when the prohibition amendment caused the closing of. the distilleries 5011
of Frankfort and vicinity and many people who worked in the diS- 1’03
tilleries left this section for other industrial centers. Also the World P91
War caused people to leave the City of Frankfort and go to worklin 120‘
, munition factories elsewhere. The decline of population in the 01W 1‘ 1"
1 ‘ preceded that of the county because of the fact that the people on the 001
i ‘ farms in the county were encouraged to stay there to produce food-
i stuffs to support soldiers in the war. This also explains why the $11)

i colored census of Franklin County increased while the white census i 111
of the City of Frankfort decreased over the same period. ) m

Table III shows that the number of colored persons in the school iii

census has decreased 76 over the period of years from 1920 to 1934 co:

in the county district and that the number decreased 284 in the Olly 001

of Frankfort over this same period. This is probably due to the {5911' f0

eral northward moving of the negroes from Southern States. . b1,

1 An important trend, which is not shown by either of the above i ’l‘l

tables, is the fact that many peeple are moving and building homes vi

a very near Frankfort. Many dwellings are now under constructlon [ of
Within two miles of Frankfort and many sites for building purpflses ,

' have been bought during the past few months. This trend recelve ) B

‘ much of the staﬁf’s consideration in recommending a central county

1 school at or near Frankfort, if contractual arrangements cannot be < F

‘ made between the Franklin County Board of Education and the i S
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CHAPTER II

ABILITY AND EFFORT T0 FINANCE THE EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAM

This chapter is intended to present a picture of the economic
status of Franklin County with reference to its ability and effort to
ﬁnance its educational program. Comparisons are made of wealth,
the ﬁnancial receipts and expenditures of the two school districts in
the county and factors which may affect the ﬁnancing of the future
programs are discussed.

In this chapter we do not consider separately the colored pupils
because there are so few of them that they do not require special con-
sideration. All ﬁgures are based on the combined colored and white
census.

A. Present Districts

The political subdivision of Franklin County consists of two
school districts, each of which has a superintendent of schools and a
board of education composed of ﬁve members. The Frankfort Inde-
pendent School District consists of the City of Frankfort and its
boundaries are coterminous with the corporate limits of the city. The
Franklin County School District comprises the remainder of the
county.

This study is concerned primarily with the problem of setting
llb desirable attendance areas and locating permanent school centers
in the Franklin County District; however, certain references will be
made to the Frankfort Independent School District and certain com-
parisons will be made of Frankfort and the Franklin County District
throughout the study. The Frankfort independent District is more
compact and highly organized than is the county school district and,
consequently, the problem of. determining desirable centers in Frank—
fort 1s a comparatively simple one. The county school district em-
hl'aces a Wide territory consisting of approximately 190 square miles.
l‘he population is scattered with the exception of the immediate en-
V1_I‘0ns of Frankfort which are growing, as was shown in chapter one
Of this report.

B. Wealth and Tax
1‘ Table IV gives a comparison of the per capita wealth in the
“I‘ankfort Independent School District and the Franklin County
5.011091D1strlct. It also shows the difference in tax levies in the two
distrlcts.

An examination of the table reveals that the assessed valuation
Der census child in the City of Frankfort is approximately 40 per
cent, 01‘ $1,029.39, greater than the assessed valuation per census child
1“ the county school district. It also reveals that the tax levy in the

TABLE IV

Tax Levies and Assessed Valuations for Franklin County and Frankfort
Independent School Districts

, _ Assessed
'1‘“ Rate Valuations .5
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District is a B 9 E a E 3‘5 Elli-ES :1 w ° 3'5
08 pg 1/ 3 U Hvid Dina) ﬁﬂ’ﬁmd
.329. :4? .5 E 5 5%3 .333 ”59335
357‘ 03 5.; W425 on; aim» “seer.
eon law as so . at; 044m: Eomo
I l |
Franklin i l l |
County ’ $.50 l 0 $1,800,025 $5,010,710 $6,617,335 75 $2,533.42
J l
Frankfort | l l
Independent ’ 1.00 i $.15) i 713,907 6,707,95UI 7,421,017 75 3,712l81

Frankfort School District totals $1.15 on each $100 while that in the
county is 50 cents per $100 assessed valuation. The 15 cent levy in
Frankfort is for sinking fund purposes. Thus the tax levy for the
Frankfort School District is more than 100 per cent greater and is
based on an assessed valuation that is approximately 40 per cent
greater per census child than that 0f.the county school district. The
Frankfort School District not only has approximately 40 per cent
greater wealth per pupil than the county school district but i