Evening star., 1928-09-09
75,O|)D TO ENROLL
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
System Officials Estimate
Represents an Increase of
5000 Over Last Year.

Public school officials are preparing
to receive an estimated enrolment OF
$4,000 students in the city's element
ary Junior high, senior high and nor
NAL schools when they open Their
doors for the 1928-29 school year, Mon-
day. September II, it was announced at
the Franklin Administration Building
yesterday.
With a peak enrolment of 72,03l
registered last year during the month
of December, the school officials esti-
mates anticipate a total increase In
both white and colored schools of near
ly 5000 pupils. Of this total increase
nearly 1000 will go to the schools foi
colored pupils since the Districts col
ored school population is slightly less
than one-third of the white school
population.
While school opens one week from
tomorrow for the students, the teach
ers and officers of the system will be-
gin their years work on Friday OF
this week, when elementary school
teachers meet with their respective
supervising principals and high school
teachers meet with their principals IN
their respective buildings. Official
summons of the teaching personnel OF
the school system will be issued from
the office of the superintendent OF
schools within day or two. At the
initial conferences Friday, the teachers
and their officers will set into opera
ton the machinery which will steer
Washington youth down their educa-
tional courses for another years
| progress.
Admission Boards to Sit.
Concurrent with the first teachers
meetings of the season Friday, the two
| boards of admission will sit from
am. to pm. Thursday and Friday
for the purpose of examining the ere.
| dentials of graduates of private anc
parochial elementary schools and thost
of out-of-town institutions to determine
their eligibility for entrance in the
District high schools. Where the Gre
, dentials of applicants are found salts
| factory, pupils will be assigned to IN
| stitutions within proximity OF theii
homes by Stephen E. Kramer and Gar
net C. Wilkinson, first assistant super
| intendents in charge of high schools
in the white and colored divisions, re-
| spectively. In those cases where un'
| satisfactory credentials are presented
written examinations will be admin
istered before the students will be de-
clared eligible for entrance in hlgf
school of the system. These examina
tions probably will be given next Sat
urday. While assignments to the hlgf
schools will be made principally in &C
cordance with the addresses OF th'
applicants, it was indicated at Franklin
Administration Building yesterday tina
the wishes of parents regarding tn
enrolment of their children in specific
institutions will be earnestly considered
and where practical in the opinion o
the school officials. the wishes o
parents will be granted
School Board Already at Work.
The board of admissions for tn
white Schools--those of divisions 1-9-
will sit at the Franklin Administrator
Building. Thirteenth and K streets
while the board for the colored school
divisions 10-l3-Will meet at tn
Dunbar High School, First and !
streets. The divisions 1-9 board !
High School, chairman; Miss M. c
HaWes of Eastern, secretary: DR.. A. |
Howard of Business, Miss D. F. Sher
man of Central, Miss j. B. Edmondso
of Western and Miss Ella Monk @
Eastern.
The divisions 1913 board consist
! of Clarence o. Lewis of Dunbar. chair
man; Cato w. Adams of Armstrong
| w. F. DeBardeleben of Miner Norma
, School and Walker Savoy of the Franci
Junior High School, representing tn
: Junior high schools.
, With preparations for the launch
ing of the school year by the variou
| schools themselves scheduled for thi
, week. the Board of Education alread
has returned to its 1928-29 sessions
having met in the boardroom at th