The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-12

From the above It will be seen that tine
enrolment in Schools Nos. l. z. ., 4 ana D
uhe primary departments only beng
c~onsideredl exceeds the seating capacity.
In No, q School the seating capacity ex-
| ceeds the enrolment by 261. This is ac-
| counted for By the fact that No. 9 School
| is In the upper end of the city, q part not
as vet built up. The Hign School is now
| located in No. 6. This move gave six
new primary classes In No. 4, thus Gu
! abling the board to do away with the No.
| annex, which was located in the base
| meut of the Methodist Church on Garden
street. Now, only buildings erected as
public school buildings are being used by
| the HoboKen Board of Education for pub
| lie school purposes The excess of enroll
ment over seating capacity in the first
| five schools Is 272. II those 272 could be
! sent 10 No. q School. the excess would be
| ouly eleven. But this is not practicable,
| owing to the location of No. 8. The other
| five schools are conveniently located for
the bulk of Hopoken's population.
The total enrolment in the public
schools. Counting. primary. and gram
mer deparlments) this year, is as foliows:
| School No. 1. $40; Ne. 2. 949; No. 8. 1, ITO;
No. 4, 1901: No. 5, 9DS; No. &. 9l3; total,
6.OOl. Total enrolment the nrst week a
| wear ago. $500. The increase this year
is, therefore, so far. COL. This is fur
| above the natural increase, so that Que
can SAFELY GSbltudt6 tuHt SOU vi tu6 pa
rocniai school children have already been
enrolled in t"e public schools. This
| would leave $50 of the parocnIai school
| children vet to bs enrolled IL father Cor
| rigan does not upen his school. OF this
$50, not over 800 will apply this ear to be
| enrolled in the pubic school. A good
many cnildren are enrolled in the public
| schools every year in October. Tnis
wear, say 200. Thus 500. plus 200, plus
| The IL excess at present we have ia
total anticipated excess of Ill, or say in
round number $50 10 recapituiate:
| Seating capacity. 4.647: enrolment and
anticipated enrolment 5.397; excess. 750.
Fl ACCOMMODATIONS.
The question, thsn, il to accommodate
these $50. This Is the way the BosrI of
Education proposes doing it:-Iu the six
schools there are ninety-fuur class rooms
devoted to ths primary department. There
is room IN each class room for ut least
ten more seats, and this without undue
crowdlng. Thus. ninsty-four class rooms
with an Increase OF ten seats In each viii
increase the seating capacity $40. or 1870
| more seats than they anticipate scholars.
liz we drop out of this calculation No. q
| School (Which is out OF the way, but
| which, nevertheless. couIa be utiliztd to
some extent) with its thirteen classes.
| excess OF seating capacity of sixty.
The Board OF Education Will work
| on these lines. increasing the necessary
| seating CAPACITY ut once.
As to what steps Father Corrigan will
take in reference to his school, nothing
positive is known, or Will be known. be-
fore Sunday. In all probability he will
| reopen his schoola "a q pay school.
BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
The business transacted at the meeting
was OF Importance. sThe first was the
reading OF lists OF supplies needed nc all
| the schools. One school wanted Cham
bers' Encyclopedia. Trustee keid
thought this WAS a needless expenditure.
not because the book wasn't valuable,
but because 1t vas necessary for the
trustees to ecopomize. Tine committee
Will consider the matter. Miss Ida A,
Booth resigned 81 first vice-principal Of
No, i School,. the following teachers
applied for the position: Miss Louise
Bailey, teacher for twenty four years;
Mrs. Annie Il. Moore, teacher seventeen
years; Miss Jennie Held; Miss a. Bennett,
teacher twenty-sx yeats; Mlss Al.