Evening star., 1921-05-14
SCHOOLS
I. IN 18TH DIVISION
Other Provisions Adopted to
Relieve OvercroWded Con-
ditions. Is Report.

Three portable structures have been
pressed into use in the thirteenth di-
vision of the public school system and
thirty-nine oversize and two part
time classes created IN order to tenn
>orarily relieve congested conditions.
school authorities pointed out today
IN emphasizing the need for addi-
tional accommodations in this dis
trict- II Is estimated that to remedy
the overcrowting in this division
seventeen additional classrooms are
needed Immediately. Ten are wanted
bles. rented and other undesirable
quarters. six to reduce oversize classes
and one TO eliminate part time classes
Thirteen Buildings in Use.
There are thirteen school buildings
in the thirteenth division. the last one
In the school system. This division
lies in the southeast and southwest
sections. and is bounded in general on
the north by Florida avenue. on the
east by the District line. on the south
by the District line and on the west
by the Potomac river. Louisiana ave
nue. and the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road.
The schools in II are the Ambush
J. street between 6th and 7th streets
southwest: Bell. lst street between b
and c streets southwest; B;rney.
Nichols avenue and Howard street
southeast; Bowen. 9Th and r streets
southeast: CarGoza. 1st street be
tween One-halt and l streets: Gar
field. Alabama avenue and 25th street
southeast: Giddinss. Sd and streets
southeast: Lincoln. I'd and & streets
southeast: Logan. Sd and q streets
northeast: Lovejov. 18th and -
streets northeast: Pavne. 18th and {
streets southeast: all-Cardoza
1st and I streets southwest, and Sy-
phax. One-half street between and
Q streets southwest.
The greatest points of congestion in
the thirteenth division are at the
Iovejoy and SyphaN schools. where
portables are used. Two porta bles are
at the Syphax School and one at the
Loveioy. In addition. the latter school
has three of it's classes dated
in rented quarters, and on" in a base
ment room of the building.
Excess In Enrolment.
Although the board of education
has established class OF forty pu-
pills as the standard there are
twenty-five classes in this division
with enrollm nnts ranging between
forty-one and forty-five. and thirteen
others with from forty-siX to fifty
pupils Two classes have over fftv
pupils. Therefore. there are 20" pupils
in excess Of the standard of forty
pupils per class. II is estimated that
f. would take at least six additional
classes to accommodate these pupils
II they were all in one school. Scat
tered as they are in several schools.
officials say il would probably take
more than six additional classes.
Hence. the estimate of six classes is
minimum.
There are 126 regular classrooms in
the thirteen schools in the thirteenth
division. The enrolment totals
5.e37. an increase of 1913 since 1915.
Sixteen of the seventeen additional
c'assrooms needed TO remedv present
overcrowded conditions in this divi-
boards original 5000 900 building
program. which school authorities
and various civic organizations have
urged Congress to approve at this
session.
Additions RecOmme ended.
This project proposes an eight
room addition to the Lovetoy School
a four-room addition to the CardoZa
and a four-room addition to the Bell
The cost of constructing these addi-
tions and acquiring necessary sites
is estimated at S+12.000.
The less than 81. 100000 emergency
construction program now before
Congress contains only one provision
for relief in the thirteenth division
building to ultimately replace the
Rell School Ar appropriation of
s1s0.o00 for this work is asked.
II Congress does grant an appro-
priation for the Droposed new build
ing to replace the Bell School. Off
little relief will he afforded in this
division. Therefore they are not
abandoning their plans to have the
s5.o00.oo0 project approved.