Guide to the Alabama Department of Education School System Surveys
Record Group 129
Date Span: 1928-1993
Extent: 1 cf
Organizational Sketch: The "Alabama School Code" of 1919 established the State Board of Education as well as County and City Boards of Education. Article 3 of the law required the State Board to conduct biennially a census of school-aged children in the state (by county and city, ages 6-21), and empowered the State Board to create uniform financial, enrollment, attendance, and biennial census forms for use throughout the school systems of the state, as well as to conduct "investigations relating to the educational needs of the State, and the means of improving educational conditions."
The School Code of 1939 directed the State Superintendent of Education: (1) to make an inventory of all school buildings and sites; (2) to cooperate with county and city boards of education in securing Federal grants to assist in school building construction by making special studies of school building needs on the request of local school authorities; and (3) to make special studies presenting the need of public education in AL for general Federal aid for the support of the public schools.
Scope / Content: These records reflect the examination of school systems at the county and city level
by the Alabama Department of Education. Each survey, whether for a county or city,
covers three areas. The first area is child accounting, including school census, enrollment,
average daily attendance, and holding power. The second area is the present school
building and sites. The third area is attendance area and recommendations for each
school, White and Negro. (Courtesy: Alabama Dept. of Archives & History)
Contains Full & Partial Surveys for school systems in Alabama's Wiregrass Counties:
Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston & Pike, as well
as proposed centers for "colored schools," building plan evaluations, feasibility
studies, analysis of junior high schools, facility evaluations, and proposals for
school consolidations.
Organization: Arranged alphabetically by county and then arranged chronologically within each county.
Provenance: Surveys completed in accordance with the laws of Alabama, 1919 and 1939, acquired by the Alabama Department of Archives and History. In 2012, to enlarge and support the Pike County Board of Education Records acquired in 2011, the Wiregrass Archives paid for copies of all available reports for the nine counties in its coverage area.
Acquisition Method: Purchased from Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Access/User Limits: Public records. Open for all access and use.
INVENTORY:
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File Label |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
001 |
Report of the Survey of Barbour County Schools, School Year 1928-1929 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
002 |
Proposed Centers for Barbour County Colored Schools 1938-39 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
003 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Barbour County Schools, School Year 1946-47 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
004 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Barbour County School System, School Year 1959-1960 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
005 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Barbour County School System, School Year 1972-1973 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
006 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Barbour County School System, School Year 1979-1980 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
007 |
[School Facilities Evaluation: Clayton, Louisville, & Clio, 1982] |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
008 |
[Feasibility Study: Clayton & Louisville attendance areas, 1983] |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
009 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Barbour County School System, School Year 1990-1991 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
010 |
Report of the Survey of Coffee County Schools, School Year 1929-1930 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
011 |
Report of the Survey of the Coffee County & the Enterprise City School Systems, School Year 1940-1941 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
012 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Coffee County School System, School Year 1959-1960 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
013 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Coffee County School System, School Year 1972-1973 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
014 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Coffee County School System, School Year 1981-1982 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
015 |
Report of the Survey of Covington County Schools, School Year 1928-1929 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
016 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Covington County School System, School Year 1946-47 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
017 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Covington County School System, School Year 1968-69 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
018 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Covington County School System, School Year 1992-1993 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
019 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Crenshaw County School System, School Year 1935-1936 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
020 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Crenshaw County Schools, School Year 1946-47 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
021 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Crenshaw County School System, School Year 1959-1960 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
022 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Crenshaw County School System, School Year 1968-69 |
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129 |
12-0529 |
001 |
023 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Crenshaw County School System, School Year 1989-1990 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
024 |
Report of the Survey of Dale County Schools, School Year 1928-1929 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
025 |
[Analysis of junior high schools, Dale County, 1938] |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
026 |
[Evaluation of proposed building program, Dale County, 1940] |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
027 |
Report of the Survey of Dale County Schools, School Year 1946-47 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
028 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Dale County School System, School Year 1963-1964 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
029 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Dale County School System, School Year 1970-1971 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
030 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Dale County School System, School Year 1973-1974 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
031 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Dale County School System, School Year 1981-1982 |
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129 |
12-0619 |
001 |
032 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Dale County School System, School Year 1985-1986 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
033 |
Report of the Survey of Geneva County Schools, School Year 1936-1937 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
034 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, School Year 1944-45 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
035 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, School Year 1946-47 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
036 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, School Year 1959-1960 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
037 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, School Year 1970-71 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
038 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, School Year 1979-1980 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
039 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, School Year 1989-1990 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
040 |
Report of the Survey of Henry County Schools, School Year 1937-1938 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
041 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Henry County School System, School Year 1959-1960 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
042 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Henry County School System, School Year 1979-1980 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
043 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Henry County School System, School Year 1989-1990 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
044 |
Report of the Survey of Houston County Schools, School Year 1928-1929 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
045 |
Report of the Survey of Rural Schools of Houston County, School Year 1938-1939 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
046 |
Report of the Survey of the Houston County School System, School Year 1956-1957 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
047 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Houston County School System, School Year 1967-68 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
048 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Houston County School System, School Year 1981-1982 |
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129 |
12-0606 |
001 |
049 |
Report of a Partial Survey of the Houston County School System, School Year 1989-1990 |
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129 |
12-0227 |
001 |
050 |
Survey of the Pike County Schools, School Year 1929-1930 |
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129 |
12-0227 |
001 |
051 |
[Proposal for Consolidated schools, 1940, Pike County] |
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129 |
12-0227 |
001 |
052 |
Partial Survey of the Pike County Schools, School Year 1945-46 |
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129 |
12-0227 |
001 |
053 |
Partial Survey of the Pike County Schools, School Year 1962-63 |
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129 |
12-0227 |
001 |
054 |
Partial Survey of the Pike County Schools, School Year 1971-72 |
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129 |
12-0227 |
001 |
055 |
Partial Survey of the Pike County Schools, School Year 1977-78 |
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129 |
12-0227 |
001 |
056 |
Partial Survey of the Pike County Schools, School Year 1987-88 |
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