New Britain herald., 1919-01-11

the cfty llD lE E76naI Equipment and facilities assal'e necessary for the satisfactory accomplishment of effec-s tive and complete education and train ing.
 Schools Overcrowded.
 The last school census, completed in September, 1918. showed school population of IA, Iii children between and 16 years of age. These ages are the limits of compulsory school at tendance ages, and these 14,711 chil- dren are entitled, under the law of Connecticut, to be provided by the city with adequate school accommoda- tions. The increase during the past year, i. e., from Septem Der 1917 to September 1918, was 629. If all these 629 children were to be taken care of in the public schools, the minimu um number of school rooms additional which would accommodate them in a satisfactory manner would be not less than eighteen on the basis of thir- ty-five pupils per room, which is a reasonable unit of calculation.
 ''It is true that some portions of this increased number has been and is taken into the parochiat schools, but 1t seems safe to say that not less than threefourths of the increase or 475 of these additional children must be taken by the public schools, and for them not less than twelve ad- ditional school rooms are needed to provide for the increased enrolment in g. single school year. It should further be noted that all of the pa rochial schools in the city are now filled to the limit of their capacity ho Q of the parochial schools, because of overcrowded conditions, has dismissed a total number of 142 pupils for whom the~public schools have been sudden il and unexpectedly called upon to provide three school rooms.
 Report On Buildings.
 "At the present time the situation is as follows: The high schools are filled to the limit of their capacity. The Grammar school and Prevoca tionaI school have also reached the limit of their accomm odations. The East Street school has every room fully occupied and some overcrowded. Tn the Sma1ley school all regular rooms are occupied and six basement and corridor rooms are in use as school rooms, The Smith school is filled with a basement room in con- stant use. The new Elihu Burrltt school is overf1owing. Tn the Oid Burritt school eight rooms are used for school purposes, two are used hy the day nursery, and two other rooms are used--one for the An1erica1fza-- tion center, and the other for the ot- flee of the attendance department Of the public schools. The Bartlett school is now overcrowded in spite of l the fact that considerable 1umber of pupils was transferred to the l Elihu Burritt school in April, 1918. | The Rockwell school is much over- 1 crowded, @ basement room being in constant use, as well as the school l room of a portable school house sit uated in the Rockwell school play ground
 The Northend school is filled and has overfowed into q single room i portable school, located in the school yard The Monroe Street school is l filled to it's capacity. The open air school is now accomm odating 75 pu- pils-its full capacity-and long waiting list of candidates for this 1 school cannot be accomm odated for 1 lack of room.
 ''The relief for the Camp school, l which is now a district school, which 1 is in prospect through the building of a proposed addition will doubtless provide for it's immediate needs. The Lincoln Street school has ten school ! rooms, of which nine are fully occu- pied, but the rapid growth of the dis trfct makes it probable that seV- eral additional school rooms will oa 1 urgently needed in this district in the immediate future. The Elm Street school, a four-room building, is fully occupied.
 The Osgood Hill school now has four school rooms These are all filled and there is need for more rooms in order to meet even the pres i ent needs of this district. The Stan 1e7 school is another four-room school. All the rooms are occupied and more school rooms should be planned for and provided in the very near future in order to take care ot the needs of this growing section ot the city.
 .'Tn summary--there are only five school rooms in the entire city which are not occupied at the present time for school room purposes. These arc the four rooms on the first floor ot the Old Burritt school, at present de voted to the uses of the day nursery
 the Americanigation center, and the attendance department, and a singls
 room in the Lincoln Street school |
 is plain to see that neither the capac
 ;tv nor the location of these unoccu
 pied rooms can afford accommodation
 for any pupils living outside of tht
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