Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Herald Telephone, April 26, 1966, Sec. 1, p. 7. NOTE: The item below was abstracted from the original by Randi Richardson. This article is one of several articles intended to assist readers in preparing for the May 3 referendum on school reorganization. There are nine school systems in Monroe County with a combined enrollment of 12, 207. It has been proposed that these nine systems be combined into one administrative unit. This is the major issue involved in the May 3 referendum. Noted below is a brief description of each of the nine systems. The Bloomington Metropolitan School Corporation has an enrollment of 8,223 or approximately two-thirds of the county's total. The corporation operates one high school, three junior high schools, and twelve elementary schools, and cooperates with IU in the operation of the 12-year University School. Two new elementary schools are being planned. The Richland-Bean Blossom Metropolitan School Corporation operates one high school and two elementary schools with a combined enrollment of 1,770. The high school, Edgewood, in Ellettsville was opened in September 1964. Washington Township operates one school with 224 pupils from Kindergarten through seventh grade. Eighth and ninth graders are transferred to Dyer Junior High and tenth through twelfth graders attend Bloomington High School. A new elementary school is being planned to be located on Highway 37 seven miles north of Bloomington. Benton Township operates a 12-year school at Unionville with an enrollment of 427. Clear Creek Township operates both a 12-year school at Smithville and an elementary school at Harrodsburg with a combined enrollment of 619. Salt Creek and Polk townships are to be closed in June by order of the Indiana State Board of Education because the schools have no library books and some of the teachers do not hold adequate state teaching licenses. The ruling may be appealed. The schools involved are Knightridge and Phillips schools in Salt Creek and Chapel Hill School in Polk Township. Pupils are enrolled at each school in grades one through six. Knightridge has an enrollment of 44; Phillips 41, and Chapel Hill 48. Indian Creek Township operates one school, Kirksville Elementary, with 172 pupils in grades one through eight. In Van Buren Township nearly 300 seventh, eighth and ninth graders are being transferred to Bloomington's Central Junior High School this year because of the overflow at Grandview, Van Buren's one school. The 639 pupils enrolled at Grandview this year exceed its desirable capacity by about 90; classes are meeting in the cafeteria and in the teachers' lounge.