The latest available statistics for 1958-59 indicate there were 8,084 small schools and that they had enrolled in them 1,650,000 pupils. It is a matter of conjecture how much these figures will be reduced in the next 10 years, but there is considerable doubt that the reduction will be a truly significant one. In any event the current figures are rather formidable ones when it is recognized that these represent 42 percent of all 19,191 high schools and 20 percent of the 8 1/4 million young people enrolled in high schools. This bulletin presents a story of the first modifications to have been brought about in recent years which involve broad experimentations designed to improve the instructional programs of small high schools. (Contains 1 figure.) [Best copy available has been provided.]