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The 1978 Survey covered a total of 41 Kindergarten buildings, 12
Pre-Grade school buildings, 1,088 elementary school buildings,
and 299 High School buildings. Table 62 shows that over 400
school buildings included in the Survey had been established
during the 1970's, another 400 dated from the 1960's, and the
others dated from before 1960.
Only 827 out of the 1,441 "school" buildings were initially
intended to serve as such: 242 were originally churches (some
were still used as churches), 156 were residential houses, 73
were town halls, and 143 were classified as other types of
shelters which even included shops and restaurants. The fact
that only 478 of the 941 public school "buildings" were, actually
owned by the Government (the rest being leased by the Government)
is one other sign of the poor investment performance of the
Government with respect to Education.
Facilities in these "school buildings" were usually lacking.
E.g. out of the 1,441 schools only 348 (less than 25$) had
electricity, and Montserrado County alone had 50$ of these
schools (174), Given the general availability of electricity in
the rural areas of the country this is not surprising. One can do
without electricity, sometimes, but much worse, was that basic
facilities such as sanitary facilities were (i) absent, (ii)
badly functioning, or (iii) - in the best case - unequally
divided over the country. Thus, out of the 1,441 schools 458
schools had no toilet facilities and 521 schools even had no
access to water from any type of source. Only 238 schools had
some pump or tap water, 360 drew water from nearby rivers,
TABLE 62
THE CREATION OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS COVERED BY THE 1978 SURVEY
NUMBER OF SCHOOLS
PERIOD ESTABLISHED
1883 - 1920 20
1921 - 1930 20
1931 - 1940 41
1941 - 1950 103
1951 - 1960 282
1961 - 1970 414.
1971 - 1978 4.03
UNSPECIFIED 158
1883 - 1978 TOTAL 1,441