The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-07-02

of the school housing conditions
made by The Pleasantville Press,
which carefully investigated con-
ditions in the city's school system
this week.
In making the survey, the four
grammar schools and the high
school were included, and exam
ined as to the number of pupils
enrolled, and the number of
grades that were on part time.
Glasses have been held outside
the actual school buildings in
rooms rented for the purpose.
This condition existed in School
No. 2. Basement rooms have
been used in School No. 4.
Practically every school last
year was in crowded condition,
in many cases teachers having
to instruct more children than
they could teach with justice to
the students. The high school
building was included in the
schools listed as over crowded.
Authentic figures secured from
school officials list the school
population Of Pleasantville as be-
tween $500 and $500, including
the high school. There are five
buildings, as follows: The high
school building. on Washington
avenue, and four grammar
schools-School No. l, Shore
road and Woodland avenue;
School No. 2, Park avenue and
Doughty road; School No 8,
Leeds avenue; and School No. 4.
Decatur avenue.
Two of these buildings have
been completed in the past three
years. They are School No. 4,
located at Decatur avenue, which
consists of some fifteen rooms,
accommodating children from the
| kindergarten to the eighth grade.
School No. 3 consists of four
rooms, taking children up to the
sixth grade, and having no kim
dergarten.
According to figures obtained,
in School No. 1 there are four
grades on part time. One hun
dred and sixty students of the
lower grades, the first and sec
ond, are attending school on part
time schedule.
In School No. two grades are
on part time, with an enrolment
of 60 pupils. They also are in
the lower grades.
These are the only two build
ings where pupils are going to
school on part time schedule.
The total number of pupils on
part time is 220.
In School No. 2, three rooms
are rented outside the school
building. and 100 students are
sent to school there, which makes
a full schedule possible. In
School No. 4, one of the newest
schools, three classes are attend
ing school in the basement. They
total 100 students.
In the high school building 295
pupils We're enrolled last year.
The normal capacity of the high
school is 256. Thirty students
graduated this year, while more
than 100 graduated from the gram
mar schools, and of this number
100 are expected to enroll in the
high school this fall.
A number of these students
will go to Atlantic City High
School in the fall, rather than the
Pleasantville High School. Also,
number of grammar school stu
dents from Egg Harbor township,
which was not included when the
Board of Education made the de-
cision some years ago to take
pupils only from this city, will
enroll.
Many propositions have been
considered to provide students a
public school education.
One Of the fairest seems to be
the plan now widely discussed, to
construct model high school
near the center of the city, which
would again accept students from
every community in the county.
The present high school building
could then be turned into a Ju-
Nor high school for students in
the higher grades of the gram
mar schools and the lower grades
of the high school.
At present, it is understood,
Mainland communities 'aending
their students to Atlantic City
High School have entered into
an agreement with the school
officials of the resort that such
students must be sent for per-
iod of five years. The agree
ment was made some three
years ago, and as the present
high school building in Atlantic
City is in an overcrowded con-
dition, Mainland communities
may find themselves with a num-
Der of high school students, and
no place to send them, as the re-
sort may take action similar to
that taken by the Pleasantville
School Board a few years ago,
and bar students from the Main
land to give better care to their
own pupils from Absecon Island.
It is very evident that the At
lantic City officials would offer
no serious obstacle to the Main
land community Withdrawing its
students from the resort institu-