A History of the Nome, Alaska Public Schools:1899 to 1958 From the Gold Rush To Statehood
A Thesis by John Poling

Table No. 1: Elementary School Enrollment and
Eight Grade Graduated, Nome Public Schools,
1901-1917.

School Year
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Graduates
Enrollment
1900-1901
_____
0
631
1901-1902
23
15
9
( 33
)
0
0
1072
1902-1903
_____
2
1193
1903-1904
_____
13
1744
1904-1905
_____
16
11
5
1415
1905-1906
_____
_____
1676
1906-1907
(27
)
13
16
17
34
22
21
18
1507
1907-1908
(40
)
(32
____)
(42
)
(52
_____)
23
1668
1908-1909
27
15
_____
25
19
14
/ /9
1909-1910
(36
)
14
30
17
21
17
14
15410
1910-1911
(45
)
(21
)
14
16
13
/ /11
1911-1912
25
12
10
13
15
17
11
14
11
11712
1912-1913
26
14
13
9
11
12
18
12
8
115
1913-1914
19
21
17
11
9
11
14
12
11
114
1914-1915
19
17
14
17
9
8
6
10
9
100
1915-1916
31
12
22
14
16
11
7
2
0
115
1916-1917
32
23
15
19
14
12
12
4
4
131

Table No. 1: Notes.

1Jackson, Report, 1901, p. 1466. No distribution of grade enrollment shown.

2NSB report, 1902.

3Commencement program, 1903, and Nugget, April 2, 1903, p. 3. No grade distribution shown.

4Aurora, 1904, and Nugget, April 2, 1904, p.3. No grade distribution shown.

5NSR and Nugget, April 7, 1905, p.4. No grade distribution except for grades 5 and 6.

6Aurora, 1906, and Nugget, April 7, 1906, p.3. No grade distribution shown.

7NSR and Aurora, 1907.

8NSR and Aurora, 1908. Also Nome Pioneer Press, November 21, 1907, p.2.

9NSR, No distribution shown for grades 1, 2, 5, and 6.

10NSR.

11Ibid.

12Ibid. From the school year 1911-1912, the Nome School Records are reliable. Where previously quoted, the NSR sources were principally ill-kept class record books, and many were missing. -JMP

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