Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31

fairly satisfactory, window screens need
ed for north windows to protect them
from balls used in play by boys Of Hine
Junior High School on adjoining lot,
as small children in class rooms are in
danger Of being struck by balls coming
through windows.
Tyler.
Tyler. Eleventh street between @ and
I streets southeast-Eight class rooms;
seating capacity, $40; enrolment, 301 /;
two part-time classes, a pre-primer
class with % pupils and a IA class
with 81 pupils; all available space in
building occupied; teachers room very
small; small, unsatisfactory space for
dental clinic; hall narrow; lighting sat
iSfactory; steam heat, but plant does
not heat entire building satisfactorily;
old-style toilets; playground inadequate
and poorly equipped; floors of building
old and splintered: exterior dingy and
unsightly! no place for girls manual
arts.
Cranch.
Cranch, Twelfth and G streets south
east-Eight class rooms, also small Office
and small teachers room: seating ca
pacity, 800; enrolment, $50; no part
time classes; lighting satisfactory, ex-
cept that basement gets very little day
light; steam heat, satisfactory; old
style toilets; one basement room used
for girls special activities and one base
ment room for boys manual training
work, including boys from other schools;
hall and stairs very narrow, no outside
playground, except very small brick
paved yard used by the younger chill
dren; purchase of adjacent lot for play
ground needed There appears to be
a nf nla nj "a
school building to replace the Cranch-
Tyler group. Neither building now has
an assembly hall or adequate hall space
for assemblies. Rooms for various spe-
ctal activities, necessary under modern
system OF education, are lacking.
Buchanan.
Buchanan, n street between Thir-
tenth and Fourteenth streets south
east-Sixteen class rooms; an addition
now under construction will provide
four more class rooms and an assembly
hall, which will also be used as a gym
nasium; two rooms on the basement
floor, which is level with the ground,
are used for sewing and cooking in
struction; total seating capacity, 700;
enrolment, $50; two part-time classes,
both first grades, one with 20 and one
with 81 pupils; also two kindergartens,
one in the morning and one in the
afternoon, of 81 and 40 pupils each,
use the same room; lighting satisfactory;
steam heating plant, satisfactory; old
style toilets; wash basins too few for
such large number of children; play
rooms satisfactory; outside playground
too small for all children to use at one
time, but satisfactory with staggered
recess; playground surface in poor con-
dition, muddy in wet weather, needs
grading, resurfacing and protection by
fence from trespassers; teachers desks
and chairs old; no athletic equipment;
Landscape gardening needed to improve
exterior appearance.
Bryan.
Bryan, B street between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets southeast
Eighteen class rooms, also three Office
rooms, one teachers room, one carpen-
ter shop and an auditorium; seating
capacity, 673; enrolment, 656; no part
time classes; lighting satisfactory;
steam heat, satisfactory; part old-time
toilets; one inside play room for girls,
none for boys; outside playground sat-
isfactory. With the exception of the part
old-style toilets, this building is in very
good condition. 1t has been furnished
with new desks and chairs throughout
for both pupils and teachers. 1t lacks
room for manual arts for girls, who
must 60 for this instruction to another
building.
Randle Highlands.
Randle Highlands. Thirtieth and r
streets southeast.-Eight class rooms,
seven being used for regular classes and
one for domestic science instruction
seating capacity, 265; enrolment, 247
no part-time classes; lighting satisfac-
tory; old hot-air furnace, not satisfac-
tory; rooms on lower floor cold In Sc
we're weather, sometimes too cold for
use; SCOT covers walls, ceilings and
desks, often coal gas permeateS atHnos-
phere; old-style toilets: inside play
space normal, outside playground large
enough, but mostly gullieS and bitches,
muddy in wet weather, badly in need
OF reSurfacing, partly covered with I'M
dergrowth; building surrounded by mud