The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-06
GAINS IN SCHOOLS
AT THE END OF FIRST WEEK THE
ENROLMENT is COCA.
ON WAITING LIST STILL
NAMES OF 1877 CHILDREN WHO ARE
YET TO BE GIVEN PLACES.

They Are Applicants for Admission
to the First, Second and Thira
Grades of the Schools--Most OF
Them VIII BE Admitted During
the Week, but Some Few Will BE
Left 0ut-New Grade May Be Es-
tabIished-White Schools show an
Increased Attendance of PTS,
While the CoIored Schools Show a
Loss of Thirty, I'm Comparison
With First Week of Last Session.
There are 6,O64 pupils in the public
schools of the city of Savannah, as
against 5,S19 at the end of the first
school week of the last session. a gain
of 245. In the white schools there are
1858 pupils. a gain of 275, and in the
colored schools. 2,106, a loss of 80.
There are 127 children still on the
waiting list of the white schools, de-
spite the fact that more than twice
that number have been admitted since
the day the schools opened. Those on
the waiting list now are applicants for
places in the First, Second and Third
grades of the public schools.
Those who desire to enter the First
grade belong in the Cathedral, Chat
ham and Henry Street Schools chiefly,
and Supt. Ashmore purposes to make
room for them by transferring a suffi-
cient number of pupils from the schools
in which this grade is crowded to Bar
nard Street and Massie Schools, where
some seats in the First grade remain
unoccupied.
Almost all of those who are .appli-
cants for admission to the Second grade
live in the Thirty-eighth Street School
district, and for these places are to be
made by transfers to Henry Street
School. The Third grade applicants,
who seek admission to-. the Barnard
Street and Cathedral Schools, will be
sent probably to Chatham, Massie and
st. Patricks.
All of these shifts and changes that
are possible will be made in the course
of the next few days, but despite all
that can be done there will be some
few, living in the Chatham and Henry
Street districts, for whom no provision,
with the present accommodations, can
be made. These will have to remain
longer on the waiting list. Supt. Ash
more says he will report the condition
of affairs to the next meeting of the
Board of Education, and that 1t is
possible that the board will relieve the
pressure by directing that a new grade
be established. There is an unoccu-
pied room in Chatham Academy. and
the establishment of a new grade would
mean simply the employment of a new
teacher and such incidental expenses
as would arise during the year.
The schools have been now four days
in operation and they have proceeded
smoothly and without appreciable fric-
ton from the first. The plans were we'll
laid, the project of school districts and
the, arrangement of the grades has been
shown to be a good Tone and no change
has been necessary, despite the diff
culties with which the superintendent
was confronted this year.
Full reports of the enrolment in the
country schools have not yet reached
the office of Superintendent Ashmore.
Enough of them have come in, how
ever. to indicate that there will be a
substantial increase in the number of
pupils attending these schools over the
attendance at the last session. In them
the school work is progressing salts
factorily, and. as in the city schools,
Superintendent Ashmore feels that. he
has every reason to feel encouraged at
the showing that has been made.