Evening star., 1925-01-11
HIGH SCHOOLS FACE
FURTHER CROWD|NG
Midyear GraduationS From
Junior Highs to Add to
Heavy Burden.

WaShingtons already overcrowded
high schools will be further taxed at
the beginning of the second semester
February ,, despite the fact that the
junior high schools will receive a
large portion of the graduates of the
elementary schools, according to tenta-
tive figures compiled yesterday after
noon by school officials showing the
prospective midyear reorganization OF
the school system.
While 400 pupils will graduate from
the five white high schools, the ele-
mentary schools viii promote $50 to
the senior high schools, making net
gain in the high school enrolment of
$50. Central will get 239. the largest
number of the eighth grade graduates.
Two hundred and nine have elected to
ATTEND Eastern, lO7 Western, 1872 Busi-
ness and 143 Mckinley. Columbia
J@nIor High School will transfer 130
OF It's graduates to the senior insti-
tUtions
The total number of pupils to gradu-
ate from the elementary schools is
estimated at 1.S43, of which 493 will
enter the junior high schools. One
hundred and eight will enroll in the
Jefferson Junior High, 107 in Columbia
Junior High, loo in Langley Junior
High, So in Macfarland Junior High
and two in the new Powell Junior
High, which will open at the beginning
of the second semester.
Central to Graduate 100.
Central will have the largest grad
Mating class of the high schools. 1t
expects 10 award diplomas to 100
of its pupils. Business will graduate
49, 46 of whom Will complete the
two-year course and 33 the four
year course at the end of this month.
Fifty-three will be graduated from
Eastern, 2S in the two-year class and
25 in the four-year class. Mckinley
viii have SO graduates and West
ern %.
Columbia Junior High Will have
the largest graduating class of the
white junior high schools. Miss Alice
Deal, principal Of this institution ex-
poets l30 to graduate. Langley will
have so graduates. Macfarland As,
and the Hine %.
Although the high school enroll
ment will increase February 2, the
gain will not be great as it was
at the corresponding period last year.
due to the fact that the junior high
schools will absorb some of the pu-
pills who otherwise would have en-
tered the senior institutions. Busi-
ness is the only high school sched-
uled to get more new pupils than it
dld at the beginning OF the second
semester last year. And that gain
will be but Is pupils.
Comparative Figures.
A comparison of the figures of the
high school enrolment last February
and those tentatively set for this
February, follow: Central, 239 this
year, 276 last year; Eastern, 209 this
year, 225 last year; Western, 107 this
year, 110 last year; Business, 1872 this
year, 137 last year, and Mckinley, 143
this year and 203 last year. Columbia
Junior High School also is sending 26
more pupils to the senior high schools
this year than it did last year
The fifth division is sending the
largest number of graduates to the
high schools. The figures show that
in this district 151 of the graduates
will enter the high schools. The
number Of graduates from the other
divisions follow: First, 141; second,
145; third, 90; fourth, SO; sixth, 1928;
seventh, SO, and eighth, 23.