Evening star., 1921-05-12
DIVISION
.. BADLY CONGESTED
.TWenty-Eight New Rooms
Needed to Replace Porta-
! bIeS and Crowded Classes.

fwenty-eight additional classrooms
are needed Immediately to provide
adequate accommodations for chill
dren enrolled in the public schools of
the eleventh division. according to
school authorities. This is one of the
seriously overcrowded divisions In
the school system.
Eighteen of the extra rooms are
wanted to accommodate classes now
in portables. eight to reduce over
size classes and two to eliminate part
time classes.
The eleventh division covers a por-
sion of the northeast and northwest
sections OF Washington and is bound
Cd In general on the north by sthe
District line, on the east by the Dis
trict line, on the south by Benning
road and on the west by the western
boundary of Soldiers Home and a
line extending southwark approxi-
mately to Iowa circle.
There are twelve school buildings
IN It. They are the Bunker Hill.
Bunker Hill road between 18th and
18th streets northeast: Burrville. Di-
vision avenue between Corcoran and
Dean streets northeast: John +.
Cook, . street between 4th and 5th
streets: Crummell. Gallaudet avenue
and 18th street northeast: Deanwood,
"hittingham and Lane places north
east: Garnet. 10th street between L
and V streets; Patterson. Vermont
avenue between L and V streets:
Phelps, Vermont avenue between T
and streets; Langston. P street be-
tween North Capitol and 1st streets:
Slater. street between North Capt.
tol and 1st streets: Mott. 4th street
between Bryant and W streets, and
Smothers. Benning road and 42d
street northeast.
Even Use supply Room.
There are eighty-nine classrooms
In the schools in this division. with
total enrolment of 1924. There is
only one vacant room in the build
inss in the District. and that is in
the Bunker Hill school One room
at the Cook School now used for a
classroom is unfit for use. The sup
ply room in the Mott School is used
for coaching classes. and the assem-
bly, hall and the boys platform in the
same school are each used for
ffth-grade class.
Overcrowding in the eleventh divi-
son has caused school officials to
press into use thirteen one-room por-
tables. Five of them are in use at
the Deanwood School and four at the
Burrville School. the greatest centers
of congestion in the district. Two
others are used at the Mott. one at
the Cook and one at the Garnet-Pat-
tersonPhelps group school. The con-
Eestion in this division also has
caused school officials to create sixty
FIVE oversize and three part-time
classes.
Although the board of education
has esta bli shed a class of forty pu-
pills as the standard there are in this
division twenty-five classes with en-
ro'lments ranging between forty-six
and fifty pupils. and thirty-nine 9TH
ers have a registration between for
ty-one and forty-five. Like other di-
visions. the overcrowding in the
eleventh. according to Superintendent
of Schools Ballou. has resulted in
classes altogether too large for satis-
factory school work
Relief in Big Program.
Sixteen of the twenty-eight rooms
needed to remedy the overcrowded
conditions in the eleventh division
are provided for in the COial So
600. 900 building program of the school
board. which school officials hope
Congress will approve at this ses-
sion. 1t proposes an eight-room ad-
dition to the Mott School. a four
room addition to the Deanwood and a
four room building TO replace the
Smothers School. The cost of pro-
estimated at s511.0 900.
The less than $1,000 900 emergency
construction project now before Con-
Eress provides an appropriation of
SSV.Vv' lot IOuG-ToONl DuiJOlnR TO
replace the Smothers School This
is the only provision for relief of
conditions in this district. and there
fore. school officials are doubly anx-
ious that the original $1,000. 900 pro-
gram be carried out. in order that
adequate accommodations can be fur
nished the children enrolled in the
schools in it. Unless Congress ap-
proves the larger program. school
officials predict more serious condi-
moi nn1r iv, hi i,,;
sion. but all others in the school
system.