The New York herald., 1922-09-06
TWO PUPILS ASEAT
IN SCHOOL INCREASE
$4,000 Extra Expected Mon
day With $1,000 New Sit
tings Provided.
MILLION MARK is NEAR
Predicted Registration Is
Four Times as Big as in
Chicago Schools.
PART TIME LOCAL ISSUE
Conditions Vary Throughout
City in Meeting Demands
Of Attendance.

waiting to occupy 1t. so that. in ef-
feet, the whole of the increase in the
school population will at once be put
on part time.
This Is really conservative state
ment, for while the number of adj
of Education, including those in small
portable schools, in additions and an
nexes and in the five new school
buildings to be opened, will total about
10000, the additional children to be
cared for in primary and high schools
| will total about $4,000. so that the
ratio is really more than two to one.
The total registration this year will be
near the million mark, probably more
than $4,000 pupils.
Registration will begin to-day. the
schools being open for registration from
| 8 this morning until 3 this afternoon.
The registration will continue tomorrow
and on Friday The total registration
! figures will be sent to the board on
Wednesday and the figures for the city
will be made public Friday.
| Comparison will be made not with the
registration at the end of the last school
year but with the registration in last
! September. Careful estimates based on
experience in other years indicate that
there will be an increase of 10000 pupils
| in the elementary schools and of $4,000
pupils in the high schools.
Part Time Local Problem.
The registration last September in the
elementary schools was S1S,393; in the
high schools S7,940. This year. unless
there is an entirely unlocked for devia-
ton from the rule. the totals Will be
S3S.00O and 100000. In the last two
years there have been abnormal in
creases in the high school register and
II is possible that the very high figure
of 10000 for the high schools will be
exceeded. 1t is fully apparent, there
fore, that the situation in the high
schools, which was very bad last year.
will be even worse this.
| Part time doesn't follow registration
very closely except as far as totals are
| concerned. Board of Education Off
| cials asserted yesterday that part time
| is always largely local problem. point
| ing out that the addition of one child to
each of the 81 900 school classes would
not necessitate any increase In the teach
ing staff. 1t is uneven distribution which
| is the important factor in the part time
problem. Each year there Is net loss
OF 10000 pupils. The number of pupils
leaving school is greater than that, but
additions make UP some of the loss. The
| loss, however, does not materially af-
feet the part time problem any more
| than the addition OF one pupil to each
class would.
The New York school problem as a
whole. 1t was said, has developed to an
extent where 1t Is without parallel. Chi
cago. the next largest city in the coun-
try. has school registration in the
neighborhood Of 100000 less than one
Iourth that of New York.
While the number OF additional sit
tings to be available In the entire city
next week is given as about 10000. the
list OF new buildings. annexes. additions
and portables to be opened shows to-
tai OF only 1890 new seats. Minor
changes in schools may account for the
remainder. The list OF the major changes
in the city's school facilities, with the
location of each school, the nature of
the change and the number of new seats
thereby provided. follows:
MANHATTAN Seats
r. g. SO (additIon), lo9th street, near
| Third avenue Observation-Disclosures. e60
r s. 1i5 (addition). i7eth street. near
Audubon avenue ..................... COO
Total Observation-Disclosures. I 800
| THE BRONN. Seats.
p. s. 20 taddition). Andrews and Burn
> se s ~ Vn tannex). i3oth stree, and Brown Wv
r. S. 55 taddition). 170ta street and
Washington avenue ................. $40
r. S. 90 tnew), Stebbins avenue and
Rogers place ....................... ,si3
p. S. ) portable). iseth street and Web
r. s. sss tportablc). strang avenue. ~
Edenwald ..............t....... $50
Total ...........................4.7i7
BROOKLYN. Seats.
y. s. "a new. Sanford street and VII
(First floor eight roorns)
T. S. 1i5 tnew), East Ninety second
street and Avenue IL, CRnhrsie. ...... T6j
=. s. % tportable). Coney Island and
=. s. io5 (portable). Tent. avenue and
Ffty-ninth street ........ ........... 2T0
r.. $. 1873 tportable). Deiamerc place,
Kings Highway ACKNOWLEDGING. iS0
r. s. 195 (portable), Manhattan Beach. is0
Total ........................ o35
QUEENS. Seats.
?. s. A (addtion). Rockawsy Beach,. 7iJ
Y. s. 81 tnew). i24th street. Morris
Bryant H. s. caddItion). Ions island
Semiown cMy II s. iaddl:icnj .Elmhur;.t Eilhi;;.t III
| L. s. % tportabe). Kiesena road.
4 Flushing .,........... ................... 90
lr. S. 81 tportabe). HIgbie avenue.
/ + S ss tportablc). Hampton avenue.
/ r. 81 ~ (portnble) New York and
Cherry avenues. South Springfield 27o
r s. NJ (annex). East Elml,urst. ..... 90
p s. i03 tanneS), Flushing Hcights.... 1so
N n s iOf (annex), Bayswnter. go
1 H. s. AZ (annex), Edgemere ........... $50
Total ...........................4.27a
RICHMOND Seats.
r. s. 20 new, Castleton Corners. $40
Curtis ". s. (addition) New Brighton. GIG
Continuation school. Elm Park.......... 800
| Total .....s.....s...s.... .....ss.. - 100
IL will be noted In the above table
that the high school additions, two In
Queens and one In Richmond, give an.
+, additional high school capacity OF 2.234
seats. while the expected increase in
high school attendance is 10000. The
Ave new school buildings. one In The
Bronx. two in Brooklyn, one In Queens
and one In Richmond are all elementary
schools and give an additional capacity
Of 4,018 seats. while the expected IN
crease in the elementary school regis
| ter Is 10000.