Graysboro Rural School Records

Collection — Box: 3284

Identifier: 2009.010

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Ledgers (7) and loose records relating to the rural school that was located in Graysboro, Mo, as well as the school district that the Graysboro school was a part of. Includes student records, i.e. grades and attendance, school/district finances, teacher contracts, and some school board records. Grade books and attendance records (5 ledgers) list students by name and include information such as attendance, performance, and behavior. Some of these ledgers also include more general information on the school itself, i.e. total enrollment, expenses, and facilities. These ledgers were maintained by the school’s teachers and are primarily handwritten. School board records (2 ledgers) include meeting minutes, school board finances, board elections, and teacher contracts. The loose records are sorted by subject and include more school board meeting materials and teachers contracts, as wells as annual enumerations of district no. 1, which are sheets listing the names of students at the Graysboro school, their parents, ages and addresses.

Dates

Creation: 1905-1951

Rights Statement

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Biographical / Historical

Graysboro, Mo. was founded in 1889. The settlement was located in northeast Scott County Missouri, near the area know as Gray’s Point. Graysboro was a stop on the Cottonbelt Railroad and a depot was located there. The railroad industry was the main employer and ran the economy of Graysboro. Graysboro remained a small settlement, but may have had up to 800 people living in it in the first decade of the twentieth century. Due to problems with frequent flooding, the majority of the population of Graysboro eventually migrated further west and south into the Illmo/Scott City region.