Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-19
RECORD Enrolling
AT SCHOOLS SEEN
Largest Opening Day Regis
tration Looms as Ger
tainty as Doors Open.

With the largest opening-day en-
rollment in the history of the school
system looming as a certainty, the
Washington public schools opened
their doors this morning to receive
the city's juvenile population to forge
another link in its educational career.
Early estimates from various prin.
cipals at high, junior high and ele'
mentary schools indicate that the i'm
pending school term will be decidedly
large one, so far as enrolment is con-
cerned, even exceeding the expecta'
tions of school officials.
The comparative calm which pre-.
vailed at the Franklin School through
! out the morning gave evidence OF the
fact that the opening routine was be-
ing taken care of efficiently and with
out untoWard incident in the field. By
| , o'clock this afternoon all principals
are expected to have filed their open
| ing day enrolment, it being explained
that no official figures could be ex-
| pected from them much before this
| hour.
BallOu at Desk.
| Dr. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
|
| out the morning, comforting with his
/ corps of assistants and taking care of
| the few individual situations which
were taken up at the Franklin School
He will make a tour of some of the
schools tomorrow.
| Charles Hart, principal of Eastern
High School, predicted this morning
| that the enrolment at his school
today would reach 1880. Of this
number, 1000 are girls and 800 boys
| This opening day enrolment would
| be 1872 higher than Eastern last years
! opening enrolment of 1,61S, and
shows that there will be substan
tial increase in the high school en-
rOllment this year.
Principal Hart declared today that
/ he believes the enrolment at Eastern
High School will be 1000 by October
/. An enrolment at Eastern of this
proportion would I'LL the school be.
yond its capacity. The situation at
Eastern, however, is expected to be
partially relieved next February when
the Stuart Junior High School begins
taking ninth year students.
| At Western High.
| Another case of todays enrolment
substantially surprising that of last
/ year is observed at Western High
School, where it formally was an
| nounced at l o'clock that the enroll
ment was 1885 pupils. This is 154
more pupils than were enrolled on the
| opening day last year, when the en-
| rollment was 1,031. The increased
| enrolment, however, was expected on
account of the large number Of recent
building projects in the Western High
School section.
Among the elementary schools, par
| ticular congestion was reported at the
E. V. Brown School. 1t Is expected
that the enrolment at this school will
be materially greater than last year
due to erection of number of new
apartment houses in the Chevy Chase
neighborhood. Due to the unusual
congestion at the e. V. Brown School
it has been found necessary to eX.
clude numbers of Maryland pupils,
who had sought admission to the
school.
Spots Of Congestion.
Assistant Superintendent of Schools
G. c. Wilkinson, reported that con-
gestion prevailed t. day, as was eX-
pected, at the Garnet-Patterson group
where the patterson is being razed
Schools. The unprecedented enroll
ment at these schools is due to the
growth of the colored population in
the Seventh and Florida avenue re-
gion.
While there was number of cases
where expected furniture was not on
| hand, noticeably at the Wesley
! Heights portables, there were no seri-
Gus inconvenience on this score, and
officials declared all schools would
have all the necessary furniture with
| in the week.
Increaee of 1872.
At / o'clock, the Hine Junior High
| School reported an enrolment of 7o9
pupils as compared with SIT pupils on
the opening day of last year. This
is an increase of 1872 pupils.
An increase of $50 pupils also was
netted at the Mckinley Manual Train
ing School, where the enrolment was
given at 1854 for today as compared
with 1,104 for the opening day last
year.
With increases of approximately $50
or more maintaining at Eastern, West
ern and Mckinley High Schools and
the Hine Junior High School, it ap-
pears that the total enrolment for to-
day opening not only Will De the
highest in the history of the school
system. but will be far in excess of the
expectations of school officials.
Daily Increase Seen.
In fact, these three high schools and
one Junior high school have run up
IN increased enrolment of 66S over the
opening day last year.
TodayS enrolment is expected to
be materially increased daily for the
next 10 days, as in years past the
true enrolment has not been ascer-
tanned before the seventh day at
least.
There are scores of children who
are not being enrolled today, due to
delay in vaccinations, while there are
others who are transferring who are
not shown in any of the enrollments
which will be turned in.
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