Original Disrict Lines for Fairfield's New Andrew Warde High School First Proposed at Board of Ed Meeting on This Date in 1956

District lines for the new Andrew Warde High School, which opened in September of 1956, and for Roger Ludlowe High School were recommended by Dr. Carlyle G. Hoyt, superintendent of Fairfield schools, 56 years ago this evening, at a Board of Education meeting in the administration building. That's according to a story which appeared in The Bridgeport Telegram, Saturday, January 7, 1956.

Under Dr. Hoyt's high school district line proposal, which was not acted on at the meeting, all Roger Ludlowe pupils, with the exception of those from the Pequot and Mill Hill school areas who receive bus transportation, will be transferred to the Andrew Warde High School.

This would leave Roger Ludlowe High School with all pupils who walk to school plus those who are now transported from the Pequot and Mill Hill school sections, Dr. Hoyt explained.

Transportation was provided to students living at least one-and-a-half miles from school.

Andrew Warde High School, under the plan, would open with an enrollment with 1,174 students, while Roger Ludlowe High School, now on double session with an enrollment of more than 1,500 students, would have 874 students.

Dr. Hoyt said that it was impossible to divide the town into east and west sections for the district lines without continuing double sessions at Ludlowe.

He warned that by 1958, unless steps are taken to expand Roger Ludlowe's facilities, double sessions will again be required.

The enrollment in the 1,500-student Andrew Warde High School in the 1957-58 school year was estimated at 1,404 and at 744 at Roger Ludlowe High School. In the 1958-59 school year, Dr. Hoyt estimated the Andrew Warde enrollment at 1,625 and at 805 at Roger Ludlowe, with a total of 1,776 expected at Andrew Warde by the 1960-61 school year and 906 at Ludlowe.

Paul