National Republican., 1885-11-21
THE SCHOOL EsTIMATEsJ
President Lovejoy's Estimates and
Recommendations New Buildings

President Lovejoy's Estimates and
Recommendations Now Buildings
Needed.
B. G. Lovejoy, president of the school
board, has transmitted brief report of the
operations of the public schools and a state
ment of estimates and needs Of the public
schools for the next year to the District com
missioners. He says "The numb erof youths
of school age (6 17inclusive) in the District
Columbia, according to the census of 1880,
was White, 29,612; colored 13,9i6-total,
43,t5S. The whole number of pupils en-
rolled in the public schools for the school
year ended June 30, 1886, was: White,
1918; colored, 1000; total, 30,1S2. The
average number Of pupils enrolled in the
public schools for the school year ended
June 30, 1885, was White, 16,347; colored,
S,679; total, 25,026. The number of
teachers employed for the school year ended
June 30, 1885, was In the white schools,
36S In the colored schools, 1877 total, 555.
The total payments for the support of the
public schools for the school year ended
June 80, 1885, were $5S2, 81. The num-
ber of school rooms owned is For white
total, 414. The number of school rooms
rented is: For white schools, 2S; colored
schools, 10; total, AZ.
"For one superintendent first six divi-
sions, So, 700: for one superintendent seventh
and eighth divisions, 1885, for one secre-
tary to the board and clerk to the superin-
tendent, 81 200; for one clerk to the super
intendent, $500; for one clerk to the COM
mittee on accounts, $500; for teachers. at
an average salary of $685., $430,000; for jani-
tors and care Of buildings and rooms, $685.
$40; for rents, $1,000; for fuel, $25, ,000 for
contingent expenses, $50, 1000; for sites and
new buildings, 100000 for furniture, &c.
600. Total, $641 ,09S.
"The additional school rooms absolutely
needed for the accommodation of the pupils
In the several divisions are as follows: In
the first division, white schools, one eight
room building to take the place of the
building at corner Of Twenty-second and
streets; one eight-room building for the re-
lief of the first and second divisions, white
schools. In the third division, white schools,
one eight-room building. In the fourth
division, white schools, one eight-room
building, to relieve the pressure In over
crowded rooms, and to remove the schools
from the basement of Jefferson building
and from rented rooms. In the sixth divi-
sion an additional story two rooms) to
school house at Tennallytown (for white
children), and one four-room school build
ing at Good Hope dor colored children).
In the seventh division, one eight-room
building to accommodate the pupils
now in basement of Miner school and at
the building at corner of Fourteenth
and q streets (owned), (soon to be
sold) and in rented building at Twentieth
and r streets. The pupils In two remain
ing rooms, now occupied by the lower grades
Mt the Miner school, will be crowded out by
the growth Of the high school at the be-
ginning of the next school year (colored
schools). In the eighth division, one eight
room building in South Washington, to re-
lieve the very crowded rooms at the Randall
school, and also one eight-room building, to
take the place of the Proctor building
(rented), and the schools now situated in
basement Of John L. Cook building. The
sixty-two rooms above asked for are abso-
lutely needed to properly accommodate the
pupils now attending the schools, without
making any provision whatever for the
annual increase of the population of the
District. One thousand and three more
pupils had to be provided for in September
Of this year than in the corresponding
month of last year."