The school is located on a high bluff, overlooking the Tennessee
River. It was founded in 1867, by the American Baptist Home Mission
Society. It has twenty teachers, one hundred and fifty students and
a property valuation of $100,000.
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These percentages for the color, sex, and work of the teachers indicate
that the Baptist Society is following an average course in the selection
of its workers, and the arrangement of the school program. The high
grade of colored officers and teachers now in charge of some of the
Baptist Society schools indicates that the transfer from white to
colored management has usually been made with considerable care. Of the
419 teachers and workers, only 42 are offering industrial courses and
seven are teaching agriculture or gardening. For a people eighty per
cent. rural, this proportion of agricultural teachers is evidently not
adequate.
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