Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-05
Present Building So Crowded
That February Classes
Cannot Enter
SUPERINTENDENT ELLIOTT
FAVORS MAKING CHANGE
Over Hundred viii Be Added
to Present Enrolment
in February

That Salem is in imperative need of
some immediate and effective solution
of the problem of congestion in the
High school and that the adoption of
the Junior high school system offers
the best and quickest way out Of the
difficulty which the district finds itself
IN was the cOncensus of opinion Of the
school board at the regular meeting
last night. As result Of the discus.
sion Of the crowded conditions Of the
high school and the urgency advanced
by City Superintendent Elliott for the
early consideration of the Junior high
system the board will hold special
meeting on next Friday evening when
Superintendent Elliott will submit the
outline Of plan for its Inauguration
upon small scale as an entering wedge
to its final adoption in all Of the
| schools Of the city.
The question came up directly when
Superintendent Elliott called attention
TO the fact that at the beginning of the
second semester, February 8 40 pupils
who graduate from the eighth grade in
the grade schools will enter the High
school and there is no way of making
room for them in the high school with
out using all of the available space In
the building and crowding the domestic
science department out Of its present
quarters into more cramped and made
quate space. Superintendent Elliott
confessed that he was worried over
what to do with the new pupils and ar
rangements will have to be made for
/ the employment Of at least three more
teachers to handle the new classes.
He pointed out that there are four
vacant rooms already available in the
East school, and two more would be-
available if the junior high system
were adopted which contemplates the
training of the 9TH Sth and 9th grades
in the grade school building prepara
tory to entrance into the advanced
high school grades. Room would alst
be available in the Grant, Lincoln
Park and EnglewOod schools, il thu
junior high system were to be put int
effect and in this manner plenty Of
room would be provided in the higl
school for the three higher grades fo
several years to come. When Super
intendent Elliott submits his plans fo
the adoption Of the junior high system
it viii probably be upon a small scat
which will permit Of the working int,
n general system gradually and will
take about two years 10 work up to th,
complete junior high system in all o
the schools.
Mr. Elliott reported at last night ;
meeting that there are G04 pupils in tn
high school at present which with th
40 new pupils who will enter at tn
opening Of the second semester, vii
bring the total up TO an even 800 whicl
is too many pupils for the present ac
commodations in the high school build
ings BY using three Of the yacan
. rooms in the East school for handlinI
the new entrants into the high schoo
: course temporarily, until better al
rangements can be made for their in
struction Superintendent Elliott think
he can worry along though the balanc
Of the school year. and, with the com
pletion Of the proposed new eight.roor
school building for South Salem nex
fall he says he will be ready TO IN
augurate the junior high system in al
Of the schools.