The Scurry Panel survey in 1952, speaking of the possibility and desire for selfgovernment at Los Alamos, recommended against any immediate sale of government-owned housing or drastic change in the amount of self-government now being carried on. It is believed that it may well take at least many years to attain a status under which all utilities and all real estate will be privately owned and operated. , The Los Alamos School System Three elementary schools and a high school in Los Alamos and an elementary school at White Rock were in operation when the 1949~1950 school year closed. Two large elemen- tary schools, three four-room neighborhood primary schools, and an intermediate-level school have been added during the three-year period. The White Rock school was closed. Mountain Elementary School and Little Poplar School, in the North Community, were opened in September 1950, Aspen Elementary School, also in the North Community, was placed in service in the Spring semester of 1951, Two additional four-room units—Little Valley Primary School in the Mesa School District and an annex to the Mountain School— followed in the 1951-52 school year. In September 1952, the first twelve-classroom unit of the intermediate school, Pueblo, was placed in service to accommodate sixth and seventh grades from all parts of the town except the Eastern School District and some fifth grade classes that could not be accommodated in the Mountain School. The four-room Little Forest Primary School also was completed for use during the 1952-53 school year. The second unit of the Pueblo Intermediate School, consisting of a multi-purpose facility that will provide an auditorium-gymnasium and a cafeteria kitchen, was under construction during the Spring of 1953, for use beginning in September 1953. ' The school-age and pre-school age population statistics continue to show substantially greater numbers of children in the younger age levels. The rising curve does not level off until the three- and four-year olds are reached; a tapering-off begins to be evidenced with o © Total 156 351 378 407 409 369 382 309 267 221 Age 13 14 15 16 17 18 Total 134 133 137 150 124 130 217 187 180 N 4 bs 3 to —_ 2 oO 1 - 9 ~J Age Io The numbers of children by age-groups in mid-1953 were: fon the two-year age-group in 1953. — 4,641 At the end of the 1952-53 school year the personnel of the Los Alamos County School System totaled 198 full-time and eight part-time employees, Of the former number, 150 were in teaching positions and positions of educational supervision. ALEQ From September 1949, when local schoolofficials first took office, following the establishment of Los Alamos County by law, until June 1951, the administration of the school system was the responsibility of a County Board of Education, consisting of a County Super- intendent of Schools (whose office was elective) and four members appointed jointly by the Judge of the District Court, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. In the Spring of 1951 the objective stated in the previous three-year report was attained, through enactment by the State Legislature of a new law applicable only to counties of the sixth class (that is, Los Alamos), under which there was substituted an elective Board of Educational Trustees of five members, who are empowered to employ a Superintendent of Schools. The members of the Board of Educational Trustees eile, 106 a y/