Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-07
URGE ADDITION
TO HIGH school
Board Of Education VIII
Ask Legislature For Bill
Appropriating $15O,OOO
GYMNASIUM Is
INCLUDED IN PLAN

venes next month City Council in all
probability viii present for adoption
bill approprialing s15OOOO for an
addition TO the present High school
That such addition will be necessary
by this time next year has been de-
clarcd by Clifford j. Scott. supcrin-
tcndcnt of public schools. and also by
Samuel II. Baynard. president OF iho
Board OF Education. Plans for the
proposed addition have been prepared
They call for a hreproof building
with a frontage Of SO feet on Della
ware avenue Tho structure will
have a depth of lS2 feet and it will be
the same length and height as the
present building. The addition will
scat 1000 students.
The plans call for 80 class rooms
in the addition, including chemistry
rooms, lecture rooms. etc. In the
basement the domestic science dem
onstrating rooms will be located and
second diningroOm, kitchen, etc.
The locker rooms and shower baths
viii also be located in this part of the
building. On the first floor there will
be class rooms. demonstrating rooms
and the balcony of the gym. On the
second floor there will be class rooms
and a large room CO feet by 30 feet,
which will be used for public meet
ings. The science rooms, drawing
rooms and class rooms will be on the
third floor, while the fourth floor viii
be devoted to a large room which may
be used for a girls gym.
The plans provide for the heating Of
the new addition with the plant now
in use at the High School building.
Ventilation will be provided by pat
ent window ventilators.
Prof. Scott Makes Statement.
Professor Clifford J. Scott. superin-
tendent of Wilmington schools in a
statement Saturday night sets forth
that new high school must be built,
and that If il is not built by next
September, they will be compelled TO
place the students at the High School
on part time He said: "The S-A
class which will graduate from the
grammar schools the first of February
has all of 225 students; the S-B class
which will be graduated into the High
School in June has an enrolment Of
about 1896. II Is conservative to esti-
mate that by the first of September
next, 500 pupils will be promoted into
the High School. The two senior
classes. the present Senior A and the
present Senior b classes will have
graduated by that time. In these
classes are about 100 pupils, which
means an increase i'm enrolment of
400 pupils into the High School, or
an increase of 40 per cent in one
year.
"At present every available room
in the High School is taken for school
purposes, and the question now arises
"What are we going to do with the 800
additional students?" Some people
think there Is no immediate necessity
for the additional school. Should OPP
erations begin on the new building
at once, we will be compelled to put
the pupils on part time next Septem-
Der until the new building is ready.
So il is very evident that we need a
new high school and likewise, right
away.
"The normal enrolment of the en-
tering classes each year will con-
tinue TO be 500 to 600 pupils We can
safely estimate, therefore, that one
wear from next September the enroll
ment I'm the Wilmington High school
will be from 1000 to 100. Within
five years. not even considering an
increase in the population in this
city. the High School eprollment will
be 1000. These facts show the in
crease demands the building to full
ell the school laws that make It
obligatory on the Board of Education
to supply facilities for every boy and
girl until they reach the age of TWEEN
ty-one. II will he impossible for the
Board of Education to comply with
the state laws unless they have the
new building"
As a proposition, the plans laid out
bv the Board of Education are the
most economical and the most prac-
teal that could be conceived of. one
reason why there is so much accom-
mediation IN the new High School is
that the present high School already
has an auditorium and there viii be
: no need for another one In the propos-
ed new structure thus permitting the
whole new ediice TO be given over
for class purposes.
President Baynard Is confident that
the whole expenditure will come with
I'm S150.O00 When the plans nave
been completed, which will be in q
day OF so, a tentative estimate of the
cost will be obtained and the Board
of Education will then confer will
CITY Council with the idea of secur.
ing their cooperation land then, II
things prove favorable, prepare tho
bill for the legislature 20 secure Tho
financial means.