Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-26
PLANS SUGGESTED
FOR BUILDING Up
SCHOOLS OF CITY
Details of the Project Outlined
in the Government
Survey.
WOULD REQUIRE SOME YEARS

Concerning the school building program
for Wilmington, recommended in the
Federal survey, which was referred 10 in
Every Evening, the report says:
Tho school building program for VIII
ruington, which is fully described in
section 2 of this report, is designed 10 do
three fhings-relieve existing congestion,
provide for growth for period of 10
years, and consolidate n great number If
inefficient and inadequate plants into a
small number of modern up-to-date school
buildings with adequate Fairgrounds, thus
providing for the maximum educational
opportunities for children as well as for
community uses of the plant
Three different plans for q building
program are submitted. In each case the
cost under the traditional type Of school
organization and under the work-study-
play plan arc presented In all cases the
program and estimate Of cos. have been
worked ont on the basis Of actual ton
tativc building plan. Photographs of the
types Of the buildings arr also submitted.
Plan ] is worked out on the basis Of
erecting five complete schools with grades
from the first through the ninth. This
plan is by far the most economical.
Plan II is worked out ON the basis If
the 6-3-3 plan and provides for four
separa'e junior high schools and eight
sixth-grade buildings This has been done
hecanse of the possibility That the school
authorities may wish 20 house the junior
high schools in separate buildings.
Plan III is also worked out on the basis
Of tho G-3-3 plan, but provides for re-
taininr four old buildings. This has been
done in order ~ show conclusivcly whas
4 a. A II
ings This plan is tho least satisfactory
and most expensive Of the three.
Section 2 a this chapter gives the
specific recommendations IN regard to tho
building program. together with de.
scriptions of The buildings. Section 3 con
tnins detailed tables 81 cost under The
three plans. Section contains detailed
description Of tho condition of the old
buildings The tables referred 20 in the
text viii be found in the appendix.
THREE BUILDING PLANS PROPOSED,
The Wilmington public school system
has an Enrolment OF approximately 12.00l
children in its elementary grades. There
are two sitaatioils 10 be met as regards
the building program for thesr children
81 adequate housing, f2) provision fo1
the educational requirements Of present
day demands. There are three propoNec
plans that will effect solution to thess
two problems A discussion Of these piaus
with reference 10 the two situations JUS
mentioned. followe:
WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
PLAN NO live COMPLETE SCHOOLS
Scrapping all the existing buildings
and substituting FIVE complete sehoo
plants with housing capacity of 2,0of
pupils zach. together with one smaller
unit with capacity of | POO pupils, and a
small building for No. II school, across
the Christiana, solves the housing prob
lem, and IN addition meets the require
ments OF eu enriched curriculum demand
ed by prssent-dsy education.
81 In each of the three plans submitted
No. Ia school has been treated as 8 sepa-
rate unit, since it is across the Christians
and can not be combined with any Other
school
See charts and photographs OF eomplete
schools oi this tyTe recommended herein,
According 10 plan /, the total ho'isi pe
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