The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
MISTAKE
Unless Ample
Room
is SOON PROVIDED.
So Says Carroll About High
School Accommodations.

Superintendent of Schools Clarence
F. Carroll submitted his annual report
at the meeting of the school board last
night. He said, in part:
The total number Of different pupils
enrolled in the day schools in 1898 was
21,SS4, against 10000 in 1S97-an increase
of 1880 The total number of different
pupils enrolled in the high schools in
1898 was 1884, against 2174 in 1S97-an
increase of $50. The average number
belonging in the day schools in 1898
was 17,4S0, against 1884 in 1S97-an in
crease of 1106. The average attend
ance in the day schools in 1898 was
1920, against II, l34 in 1S97-an increase
of 1865.
These figures show that our school
enrolment increases steadily about 1000
each year. An additional 1000 children
in school enrolment calls for an addi-
ton of about 20 school rooms each
year.
SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS
After reciting the new buildings and
additions provided by the city council
during the year and calling attention
10 those requested of the city council,
but not as yet provided, Superintend-
ent Carroll refers to the proposed new
hlgh school building as follows: Since
public sentiment appears to be strong
IN the direction of a new high school
building remote from the centre of the
city, it is no longer the part of the
superintendent to offer any recommen-
dation upon this subject
1t is, however, clearly my duty to
state what effect the proposed build
ing would have upon the attendance
at the central schools. Such a high
school building could not be completed
earlier than 1900. If we should assume
that all pupils now attending Wood
land and Millbury streets We're to en-
ter such a high school, and, further
more, that the pupils in the upper
classes attending the central high
schools were to be transferred to the
new nigh school, the attendance could
not possibly amount to more than 500
or 500 pupils the first year.
But TINS would be an extreme sup
position, since the pupils in the senior
and junior classes could hardly be per
suaded to withdraw from the central
schools. Four hundred would probably
be the largest number that we could
reasonably expect to be enrolled in the
nrst year This is scarcely larger than
the number now chartered in the
branch high schools.
We may expect that the number of
high school pupils will as steadily in
crease in the future as II has in the ma Ct
two years We must therefore ASSUME
that if in 1900 400 children ave anroIia(j
in the new high school. we should sin
have on hand a surplus of more than
200 high school children. IT is 1ilxeIv
that this number will he nearer 90C
than 200. The present Recommendations
does not therefore look to the hernia
nent relief of the high schools
ONE IS NOT ENOUGH.
- we were 70 reverse the conditions
anu suppose that we We're simply to
eaIse the classical nigh school, we
snoulu De ntlie OF no better off. II
loiloMs IosIcaily, therefore,, that two
SShools snould De punt instead of one
~ an aqqilloh should be made to the
ciasslcal nlsh sGhool co-ordlnately with
tne eIectioh OF new school at the
south ehd, tne question Of high schoo
ocGoiliuoaatioEs would be fully met.
ms Is slflCIiy business statement
ana one Whlch cannot be overlooked by
me schooI eolnrnittee II all the condi.
LIONS are 10 pc taken INTO account. II
eII!oar[asSlllg 10 an concerned to at
SSWpI any halI-Way measure. Wher
insuinclent ADDITIONS are asked for, the