Information Sheet

 

 

R         Texas County (Mo.).  School District No. 79.  Coffey School.

653                                    Records, 1936-1950

Two volumes.

 

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These are records of Coffey School west of Houston in Texas County, Missouri.  Included are records of the district clerk, 1936-1950, and a teacher’s register, 1938-1942.

 

Coffey School was located in Section 26 of Township 31 North, Range 11 West, approxi­mately nine miles west/northwest of Houston, Missouri.  The school was on a parcel of land do­nated by James Coffey in 1885.  Originally School District No. 3, it was later designated No. 79.  Coffey School consolidated with Houston’s schools about 1961.

 

The records of Coffey School consist of one volume of records kept by the district clerk and another volume containing the teacher’s register of classes. The clerk’s records were entered in a volume labeled Official Board of Education Record for Use in Rural Schools of Missouri.  It in­cludes lists of board members, oaths of directors, minutes of annual meetings of the school, and records of warrants issued, 1936-1950.  The teacher’s register includes records of attendance, comments on the progress of students, term statistics, a census of classes by age, and monthly summaries of enrollment, 1938-1942.

 

 

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