AGENCY: Jordan School District (Utah)

SERIES: 27957
TITLE: Annual Enumeration of School Population
DATES: 1905-1979.
ARRANGEMENT: By gender, thereunder alphabetical by surname.

DESCRIPTION: This series contains an enumeration of the students in the Lark precinct or ward of the Jordan School District in 1918. The records were created in order to collect data on the school population in the district. The enumerator recorded information on pre-printed forms in accordance with the mandate pasted in the front of the record. "The Board of Education shall appoint suitable persons for each school representative precinct who shall act as enumerators for school population for said precinct, and visit every house therein between the 15th and 31st of July of each year, and ascertain and enter upon the lists the name of every person between the ages of six and eighteen years residing in such precinct, and also the name, age, post office address, and name of the parent or guardian of every deaf or dumb person over the age of five an under the age of thirty years, too deaf or dumb to receive an education in the public schools . Such enumeration lists shall contain all the information required by law and such other information as the State Superintendent and the Board of Education may require."

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This series has historical value as documentation of the implementation of the school census law of 1905 and of the information compiled by school districts under that law.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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