New-York tribune., 1902-09-08
RECORD SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.
ny SPITE OF ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS.
THERE WILL BE SEVENTf-TWo THU
SAND HALF TIME PUPILS.

Tho ,,,blic schools open to-day 1t Is expected
that the first days attendance Will break all rec
ords for similar days For many years the hed'leS1
orroInoent has been about october l. and not on
.ho opanfng dav This was due. according 10 some
1T soboo1 teachers TO the large number OF
f-ri1ias remaining in the country until some weeks
afar the opening of the schools and OF course the
children did not return to the city uhtI tneir par
ents did. So cool has been the present sui'
mt many of these families returned from Vaca-
80 aar1iar than usual. Therefore. the sons ana
daughters are expected to be on hand to-day 10
begin the school year
Another thing which is thought to point even
.+ro,g1v 70 a record breaking attendance to-
t ts the regular annual increase of pupils Ihls
>-o ,-ories considerably each year The total
,or og nupils registered last year was 461o".
apd of that number something IKE Ii per cent "0io
half time attendants. II IS thousht that lhe to,4
enrolment this year Will lie ABOUT ooV'oV- ihuo. o
trasa over the previous enrolment would be
a.. m ooo As there are only $3.50 more seats in
The schools than at the last June term William H.
nroxweU Superintendent Of Schools, Will nave
,,ucb more difficult task in securing seat 1or
- an,Iicant to-day than ne has ever had before.
,,t5ad the increase in attendance is as large as
proSlGsu Sbouid the attendance for the school
which begins int fhlS npis Would be about 200
IoeL trease c in sealing capacity of the schools IS
st,S 1ne iiS b six new schools which will be opened
furnished pa Short time the school Sixtieth
sf and Fourth-ave.. Brooklyn. with 1hirty claSs-
rooms rooms 6rtober the new school at Greenpont-ave
Lon
% t. Mn have seven hundred seats Ine Dig scnooi
IL MI % y-ffth-st. near Am
-. with sXty-two claSsroorns ana tnlrty-
, 80 seats will be completed by November
one nun -, month later the High School OF
l. anu jT Sfxtv-ffthst.. near Broadway which
9i ~ -qn children. will also De done IL IS SAID
WI. MI seat for the fall term VIII be found for
every co bonIs or additions to schools ready for
occupancy to-day are as foio"s'
MANHATTAN.
vyad1a,gh High for Girls in hundred and
Waaie!s" batyeen Seventh and Eighth aves: seats
for 2To T., one hundred and sixteeuth-st, between
Wv aves. fifty classrooms; seats for 900
l fa5dition) In Sheriff St near stanton st; seats
for Lloo- BROOKLYN.
No 49, at Manhattan ave ana ''is'S ST. twenty
eight classroons; seats for lyoI g., Ca, od5,.;or
eit and Robinson ST. tan ADDITION
., s;sht c,assrooms and seats tor fto'.
u ~ QUEENS.
~ 1,ox, in Van AIst-ave.. Long Island City. with
sly cIassroons and seats for 4so-
~ RICHMOND.
n, 90 at stapleton. Staten Island: eight classrooms:
for 400
- r,or,, II is expected that there Will be
10y more than to-day
apolt -, ~ new buildings mentioned twenty-five
Pee nev school buildings. with seating capacity
ohSr s 60, ~ "a 600 TO 350O0 are under way Some or
OF from ~ compIeted early next year. and be
oPeieu IA we're set apart last week for regStra
- opd in the question OF seating tnose nrst en-
loi- IN baya the preference over other pupils.
romeo W W vear's congestion in the schools may
Null en- "a 70 the previous administrations building
contracts now in force