Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-09
PUPILS SNEED MORE
SPACE IN TEN[EY
SCHOOL BUILDING
Officials Estimate Eight Ad-
ditionaI Rooms Are
Required.

Overcrowding conditions at the
Tenley School. Wisconsin avenue and
Yuma street, and the rapid develop
ment of territory in its vicinity nave
made the addition of eight rooms to
the structure most vital. Of these
conditions school officials are cog
Ai<Hnt, and are urging in the es-
timates for the next fiscal year ap-
preparations for necessary improve
ments for this building. Whether
congress will approve granting funds
Tor this school. however, is matter
of conjecture.
Children attending the Tenley
School number $50, more than the
building can accommodate comfort
ably: Forty-eight pupils are crowd
ed in some classes. and between
forty and forty-five in others.
With an enrolment larger than
could be cared for in the permanent
school building, a portable and a
frame dwelling near the structure
according to school officials, is so old
it's age cannot be ascertained. It
has two rooms, which are being used
by pupils in the first grade and chill
dren in sewing and cooking classes.
The school has adequate playground
cpaee' WHICH is wen equipped. But IN
lnclement weather the children are
forced to remain in their classrooms
during recess due to the lack of play
space in the building. There is one
small. dark playroom for the girls in
the basement of the school. The boys
have no indoor play space.
The Tenley is one of the few schools
in the District which has a good heat
ing system. Teachers at the school
have no complaint to make relative to
the heating facilities. However, they
do desire the installation of electric
lights The building is lighted by gas,
but the number of lights is said to be
insufficient to insure a first-class
lighting system.
With an eight-room addition to the
school, an assembly hall is desired,
which, it was pointed out, is essential
because under present conditions there
is no space to hold functions of any
kind.
Commencement exercises at the school
are held on the lawn in the school
yard, weather permitting. Passing
street cars and heavy vehicular traf-
fic. it is said. often interrupt any
function which is staged in the school
yard.
No Extra Funds Needed.
If Congress grants an appropriation
for the erection of the desired eight
be provided for the purpose of ac-
quiring additional property. Teach
erS at the school say that sufficient
property adjoins the building, which
is owned, by school officials, for the
erection of an addition.
An addition to the school would
make it possible to eliminate the use
of the portable structure and the
frame dwelling. If an addition is con-
structed school officials desire to
have 1t so planned that sewing. man.
nual training, and domestic science
classes and sufficient indoor play
space will be provided.
In the estimates sent to the Dis
trict Commissioners by the board of
education; it was learned today. an
appropriation of approximately $10.-
000, 900 is asked to provide for the
school needs for the next fiscal year.
This is the largest fund school Off
cials have ever requested in one year
Therefore. belief is prevalent that
Congress will not grant that amount
or even two-thirds of it.
1t is understood that provision in
the estimates requests an appropria-
ton of about $1,5O0.O00 for the erec-
ton of a new high school in Ecking
tion or vicinity. The building of
high school in this section has been
urged for years by civic associations
in the northeast and northwest.