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ing, or on the same premises, such grade work may also be under the direct
control of the county board of education, and the principal of the high
school shall also be principal of the elementary school.

By passage of act of 1910, ch. 386, the management and supervision of school com-
missioners over high schools of state were intended to be enlarged; nothing in that
act repealed secs. 16-18 of ch. 275 of acts of 1896, applying to the Annapolis High
School. School Commissioners v. Henkel, 117 Md. 110; Zantzinger v. Manning,
123 Md. 181.

For a case arising under sec. 120 of the Code of 1904, see Wiley v. School Commis-
sioners, 51 Md. 402.
See notes to sec. 11.

An. Code, sec. 126. 1908, ch. 635, sec. 122A. 1910, ch. 386, sec. 121 (p. 228). 1912, ch. 41.
1914, ch. 739. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 126. 1918, ch. 105, sec. 126. 1920, ch. 118.

193. For the encouragement of secondary education in Maryland, the
State shall extend aid to such groups of high schools in such amounts and
in such manner as hereinafter designated and described. All high schools
of the counties of the State of Maryland receiving State aid shall be
arranged by the State Board of Education into three groups, to be desig-
nated first group, second group and third group, according to the number
and average daily attendance of pupils enrolled, teachers employed, and
number of years and quality of instruction given. High schools of the first
group shall fulfill the following minimum requirements: (a) They shall
have an enrollment of not less than forty bona fide high school pupils, and
an average daily attendance of not less than thirty pupils; (b) they shall
employ not less than three full-time teachers for the high school work; (c)
they shall provide a four years' course of instruction of not less than one
hundred and eighty actual school days in each year, the same to conform
to the standard required by the State Board of Education. High schools of
the second group shall fulfill the following minimum requirements: (a)
They shall have an enrollment of not less than twenty-five bona fide high
school pupils, and an average daily attendance of at least twenty pupils;
(b) they shall employ not less than two full-time teachers; (e) they shall
provide a three years' course of instruction of not less than one hundred
and eighty school days in each year, the same to conform to the standard
required by the State Board of Education, and shall not attempt more than
a three years' course of instruction unless additional teachers are provided
for the additional work.

High schools of the third group shall fulfill the following minimum
requirements: (a) They shall have an enrollment of at least fifteen bona
fide high school pupils and an average daily attendance of at least twelve
pupils; (b) they shall employ not less than one full-time teacher for high
school work; (e) they shall provide for a two years' course of instruction
of not less than one hundred and eighty actual school days in each year,
the same to conform to the standard required by the State Board of Educa-
tion, and shall not attempt more than a two years' course of instruction
unless additional teachers are provided for the additional work.

No promotion of pupils from grade to grade in any approved high school
shall be made without the approval of the county superintendent of schools;
nor shall any pupils be graduated from an approved high school without