Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-10
Six New Buildings to Be
Erected If Program is
Carried Out.
Excess of $50 Pupils at
One, and of 325 at
Another Now.

fOur-rOom school and purchase OF
sites for three 16-room schools. one
eight-room school and an addition To
the Elizabeth V. Brown School. if
the provisions of the five-year build
ing program are carried out. In adj
dition. provision is made in the pro
gram for the purchase in this III.
vision of five playground sites and
the construction of combination
gymnasium and assembly At the John
Eaton School
TODAY there are two outstanding
emergency situations in the first di-
vision. One is at the Elizabeth V.
Brown School. near Chevy Chase
Circle. where there is capacity Of
$40 pupils and an enrolment of 800.
or an excess of $50. and At the John
Eaton School, in Cleveland Park,
where the capacity is $40 pupils and
the enrolment $50, leaving net eN-
cess of 325 pupils.
Excess of pupils also prevails. how
ever. in the Curtis Hyde. O street
near Thirty-third; Jackson. Il street
near Thirtieth. and the Reservoir,
south of Conduit road
~ ClassrOomS Needed
Estimate is made by DR.. Frank w.
Rallnu. superintendent of schools. that
the opening of ~ new claSSrooms will
be necessary between now and 1873
to relieve the accumulated shortage
Of classroom space in the first division
as well Rs to replace the four-room
Threlkeld. the one-room Conduit road
school and provide for an estimated
increased enrolment of 100 pupils
each in 1926. 1927. 1928 and 1929 and
of $50 pupils in 1890.
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alent to slightly more than six S-room
school buildings. 10 insure the ade-
quate housing of these communities
children for the first time. is listed by
DR.. BallOu as follows: Thirteen rooms
needed to eliminate first and second
grade part-time pupils; seven rooms
needed to remedy undesira ble situa :
tons. such AS rented quarters or con
version of Railways into classrooms:
four rooms needed to reduce oversize
classes: five rooms to replace the
four-room Threlkeld and the one-room
Conduit road schools: four rooms
needed to release as many porta bleS
and IS rooms needed to take care of
estimated growth during the next five
years.
Sensa tional growth of the northern
half of the first division, where nu-
merouS subdivisions are being opened
up. is strikingly evidenced by the
emergency school acommoda ton needs
arising in this section. Foreseeing the
dema nds in this region. the Board of
Education has Incorporated in the
f1ve-year building program request for
sites for three 16-room schools a the
following points: Connecticut avenue
and Upton street. Foxhall road and
Calvert street and in Wesley Heights
3 Out of I3 New.
OUT of the 13 schools in the first
division only three can he considered
new and one of these is the Tenlev-
Janney. dedicated last September,
which will not be entirely a new
school until Congress agrees to the
provision in the building program
which calls for an eight-room addition
to the Janney to replace the Tenley.
How the first division enlarged on
January ! through the absorption of
the Weightman School from the
fourth division and the Toner and
Grant Schools from the eighth divi-
sion. has Jared and will fare in the
future through the f1ve-year building
program. follows:
Construction and purchase of sites
benefiting the first division already
appropriated for in the first year of
the program: Erection of the school
on the Calvert street site. near
Wardman Park, which has been
recommended to be named the
James F. Oyster School. An appro-
this school which will relieve the
John Eaton SCHOOL, include gym
nasium and assembly hall and will
be opened next September. Appro-
priation of 500. 900 for a site for the
Junior high school for Georgetown
which will he located at the inter
section of Wisconsin avenue and
Thirtv-fifth street, merging with the
site of the Fillmore School.
Items In Pending Bill.
Construction and purchase of sites
authorized for the first division in the
pending appropriation bill which is
taking care of the second years needs
in the building program: Appropria-
ton of 100000 approved by the
Budget Bureau to start erection of
the Georgetown Junior High School
for which the Board of Education
asked an appropriation of $500 900
1t is expected the additional appro-
priations will he made as needed. Pur-
chase of A site for a school At .Potomac
Heights to cost $4,000.
Several provisions in the interest Of
the first division which were recon-
mended by the Board Of Education tc
be carried in the second year of the
program were turned down either by
the District Commissioners or the
Budget Bureau. These were: Pur-
chase of S45 900 site on Grant road
as urged by the board, cut down to
entirely eliminated by the Budget Blu
reau: purchase of $4,000 site at
Connecticut avenue and Upton street
disallowed by the budget. and pur-
chase of a $4,000 site for an addition
to the Eliza beth V Brown School. dis.
allowed by the Commissioners. 1t is
the hope and belief of the Board OF
Education that these items will be
taken care of in the last three years
of the program.
Items Needing Attention.
Following are the items listed by
the Board of Education as urgently
recurring the attention of Congress
during 1928, 1929 and 1880:
Erection of an S-room extensible
building including combination
gymnasium and assembly hall. on a
site On Grant road now owned by the
District.
Erection of a 4-roOm extensibfe
building on the site to be purchased
in Potomac Heights.
Construction of an S-roOm addition
to the Janney School to replace the
present Tenley School. including nee
essary remodeling of the present Jan
ney building.
Construction of combination gym
l. l. II L. L.
Eaton School, in accordance with the
original plans for the construction of
shat building.
Purchase of land In The vicinity al