Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-17
Plan new SCHOOLS
FOR entire CITY
Proposed Buildings Will Be Al.
located With View to Rem
edying overcrowding
TWO NEW HIGH SCHOOLS

Every section of the city will receive
additional public school buildings il
the Board of Education finds means to
proceed with the large building program
which Superintendent Broome has esti I.
mated will cost S15.OOO.OO0.
The new buildings have been allocated
by districts, so that each Of the city's
eight educational divisions will receive
It's share of the improvements.
The school officials are hard at work
planning details of the program so that
the urgent needs of each individual dis
trict may be met. If carried to COM
pletion the project will go far toward
providing accommodations for the IL 900
school children now on part time.
FIRST will come the construction of
two new high schools. It is expected
mat one will be in tie north central
section of the city. The present high
schools are ovcrcrowded and the stu !.
dcnts are only accommodated now BY
double sessions each day and making use
OF every possible bit of space in the
buildings. The Germantown High
SchOol. which in comparison to the
Others is the baby of the system, is
filled to capacity, and it is almost inn
possible to find room for the constant
stream of applicants at its doors. The
GOO each.
The greatest of care is being exer.
cised, by the building experts of the
board in the ALLEGATION of the new build.
ings. It has been found that injudi.
cious placing of buildings has caused
large waste of public funds. The future
as well as the present must be carefully
studied, and the probable drift of the
population is an all important item.
Today there are several school buildings
empty: while others are overcrowded,
caused entirely by change of residence
of the people thereabouts.
In West Philadelphia II Is expected
there will be Mt least one new iunior
high school. That section may aln
receive a senior high school and an eie.
mentary school is needed by the Leidv
School, Thompson street and Belmont
avenue. to relieve conditions there.
X new elementary school is also
planned for the extreme southern seq
ton, at Seventieth street and BUST ave.
nus: as the last school built there was
High School.
According to estimates each Junior
high school is expected to cost about
SSOO,O0O, while the elementary schools
vary from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900 each.
according to the number of classrooms
and cost Of property to be purchased.
The southern section will probably get
n junior high. and the board has been
considering locations in the neighbor-
hood of Tenth and Tasker streets. A
junior high is planned for the north
eastern section on the Whitehall Com
mons site. which was given the board
by the city. There is also need for
two junior high schools in the region
lying between Spring Garden street and
Allegheny avenue and Broad street and
the Schuylkill. Another junior high
school probably will be placed in the
eastern central section somewhere near
Fourth street and Girard avenue.
In addition to the regular buildings
for routine school work there will be
girls trade school to relieve over
crowded conditions in the present school
at Eleventh and Pine streets, and a
boys trade school to relieve the Central
High annex at Seventeenth and Wood
streets. Other plans include CON
tinuation school in the heart of the
northeastern industrial section.
An administration building has long
been discussed, but rs the money for
its construction is on hand its cost
will not have to come from the loan
funds.
One of the districts of the city that
is causing some concern through over
crowded conditions Is the territory ad- |
jacent to Roosevelt Boulevard. which is /
now the scene of home building oper-
atiOns. Here there will be constructed
as soon as possible new junior high |
school, and enlargements of the Fell !
tonville and other schools.