LOUISA COUNTY, IOWA

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“EIGHTH GRADE EXAMS IN 1920”
Reprinted from the Columbus Gazette

Myrtle Jamison
County Superintendent of Schools

Transcribed by Sharon Elijah, November 24, 2019

    Out of forty-five rural pupils who wrote eighth grade examinations February 26-27, 1920, sixteen passed in all ten subjects written.

     Others failed in one or two subjects, while some will need to rewrite in several branches in the May examination. Considering only a little more than half the year of the eighth grade has been accomplished at the time of the February examination this is not a bad showing.

     Miss Mildred Yarrington of the Sweet Home School, Wapello Township, received the highest average. Roy Littrel, Fredonia, next highest, Echo Willey and Arnold Swan of the Lone Star School, Eliot Township, and Nellie DeWitt of the Fredonia School each received an average of 84 per cent, no grade was below 70 per cent.