Take the number of students in Shelburne and multiply it by two.
School populations explode!

Vermonters were learning just how fast student populations were increasing on this day in 1908. Shelburne posted its increases over the previous school year and the results were astounding.

Shelburne's high school enrollment was up 91 percent in the fall and 97 percent in the spring. The grammar school was up 92 percent in the fall and 93 percent in the spring. Intermediate school checked in at about the same with 92 and 95 percent growth, and the primary school reported 94 and 95 percent increases.

Enrollment now totalled 159 students in Shelburne, nearly twice as many as the previous year.

Image courtesy Shelburne: Pieces of History by Truman M. Webster.

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