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 county and city school systems in the 9 Wiregrass counties of SE Alabama by the Alabama Department of Education. Each survey covers three areas: child accounting, including school census, enrollment, average daily attendance, and holding power ; present school building and sites ; attendance area and recommendations for each school, White and Black. (Source: Alabama Dept. of Archives & History)
Contains full & partial surveys for school systems in Alabama's Wiregrass Counties: Barbour (9 files), Coffee (5 files), Covington (4 files), Crenshaw (5 files), Dale (9 files), Geneva (7 files), Henry (4 files), Houston (6 files), & Pike (7 files), 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 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
File I.D. File Label
129-12-0619-001-001 Report of the Survey of Barbour County Schools, AY 1928-1929
129-12-0619-001-002 Proposed Centers for Barbour County Colored Schools 1938-39
129-12-0619-001-003 Report of a Partial Survey of the Barbour County Schools, AY 1946-47
129-12-0619-001-004 Report of a Partial Survey of the Barbour County School System, AY 1959-1960
129-12-0619-001-005 Report of a Partial Survey of the Barbour County School System, AY 1972-1973
129-12-0619-001-006 Report of a Partial Survey of the Barbour County School System, AY 1979-1980
129-12-0619-001-007 [School Facilities Evaluation: Clayton, Louisville, & Clio, 1982]
129-12-0619-001-008 [Feasibility Study: Clayton & Louisville attendance areas, 1983]
129-12-0619-001-009 Report of a Partial Survey of the Barbour County School System, AY 1990-1991
File I.D. File Label
129-12-0529-001-010 Report of the Survey of Coffee County Schools, AY 1929-1930
129-12-0529-001-011 Report of the Survey of Coffee County & Enterprise City School Systems, AY 1940-1941
129-12-0529-001-012 Report of a Partial Survey of the Coffee County School System, AY 1959-1960
129-12-0529-001-013 Report of a Partial Survey of the Coffee County School System, AY 1972-1973
129-12-0529-001-014 Report of a Partial Survey of the Coffee County School System, AY 1981-1982
File I.D. File Label
129-12-0529-001-015 Report of the Survey of Covington County Schools, AY 1928-1929
129-12-0529-001-016 Report of a Partial Survey of the Covington County School System, AY 1946-47
129-12-0529-001-017 Report of a Partial Survey of the Covington County School System, AY 1968-69
129-12-0529-001-018 Report of a Partial Survey of the Covington County School System, AY 1992-1993
File I.D. File Label
129-12-0529-001-019 Report of a Partial Survey of the Crenshaw County School System, AY 1935-1936
129-12-0529-001-020 Report of a Partial Survey of the Crenshaw County Schools, AY 1946-47
129-12-0529-001-021 Report of a Partial Survey of the Crenshaw County School System, AY 1959-1960
129-12-0529-001-022 Report of a Partial Survey of the Crenshaw County School System, AY 1968-69
129-12-0529-001-023 Report of a Partial Survey of the Crenshaw County School System, AY 1989-1990
File I.D. File Label
129-12-0619-001-024 Report of the Survey of Dale County Schools, AY 1928-1929
129-12-0619-001-025 [Analysis of junior high schools, Dale County, 1938]
129-12-0619-001-026 [Evaluation of proposed building program, Dale County, 1940]
129-12-0619-001-027 Report of the Survey of Dale County Schools, AY 1946-47
129-12-0619-001-028 Report of a Partial Survey of the Dale County School System, AY 1963-1964
129-12-0619-001-029 Report of a Partial Survey of the Dale County School System, AY 1970-1971
129-12-0619-001-030 Report of a Partial Survey of the Dale County School System, AY 1973-1974
129-12-0619-001-031 Report of a Partial Survey of the Dale County School System, AY 1981-1982
129-12-0619-001-032 Report of a Partial Survey of the Dale County School System, AY 1985-1986
File I.D. File Label
129-12-0606-001-033 Report of the Survey of Geneva County Schools, AY 1936-1937
129-12-0606-001-034 Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, AY 1944-45
129-12-0606-001-035 Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, AY 1946-47
129-12-0606-001-036 Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, AY 1959-1960
129-12-0606-001-037 Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, AY 1970-71
129-12-0606-001-038 Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, AY 1979-1980
129-12-0606-001-039 Report of a Partial Survey of the Geneva County School System, AY 1989-1990
File I.D. File Label
129-12-0606-001-040 Report of the Survey of Henry County Schools, AY 1937-1938
129-12-0606-001-041 Report of a Partial Survey of the Henry County School System, AY 1959-1960
129-12-0606-001-042 Report of a Partial Survey of the Henry County School System, AY 1979-1980
129-12-0606-001-043 Report of a Partial Survey of the Henry County School System, AY 1989-1990
File I.D. File Label
129-12-0606-001-044 Report of the Survey of Houston County Schools, AY 1928-1929
129-12-0606-001-045 Report of the Survey of Rural Schools of Houston County, AY 1938-1939
129-12-0606-001-046 Report of the Survey of the Houston County School System, AY 1956-1957
129-12-0606-001-047 Report of a Partial Survey of the Houston County School System, AY 1967-68
129-12-0606-001-048 Report of a Partial Survey of the Houston County School System, AY 1981-1982
129-12-0606-001-049 Report of a Partial Survey of the Houston County School System, AY 1989-1990
File I.D. File Label
129-12-0227-001-050 Survey of the Pike County Schools, AY 1929-1930
129-12-0227-001-051 [Proposal for Consolidated schools, 1940, Pike County]
129-12-0227-001-052 Partial Survey of the Pike County Schools, AY 1945-46
129-12-0227-001-053 Partial Survey of the Pike County Schools, AY 1962-63
129-12-0227-001-054 Partial Survey of the Pike County Schools, AY 1971-72
129-12-0227-001-055 Partial Survey of the Pike County Schools, AY 1977-78
129-12-0227-001-056 Partial Survey of the Pike County Schools, AY 1987-88
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