Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
PEAK ENROLMENT
LOOMS ON EVE OF
NEW SCHOOL YEAR
Added Facilities Encourage
Officials Waiting for
Opening Monday.
20 PORTABLE BUILDINGS
NOW RELICS OF PAST
Marked Decrease in Part Time
Glasses Seen as Indication of
Improved Conditions.

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schools at o'clock tomorrow morning
While the opening days enrolment Is
expected to be unusually low because
OF the absence of all Jewish children
in observance Of Yom Kippur, public
school authorities are anticipating a
record student body this year. Esti-
mates for the peak enrolment range
between $4,000 and 10000.
AS they completed last-minute prepa-
rations for the opening of classes, school
ofncialS last night were more optimistic
than they had been on the eve of q
school reopening for several years
officials In charge Of the white schools
cited the virtual completion of install
lation of the junior high school plan,
with only few scattered seventh and
eighth grades remaining in elementary
schools. Those in charge of the colored
schools pointed to the opening this
month Of SO new class rooms, together
with the promise of a new 24-room
school in February in the Browne
Junior High School.
Needs Finally Relieved.
Foremost among the new white
| schools which receive their initial
] classes tomorrow are the Alice Deal
Junior High School in Reno and the
| Charles Eliot Junior High School ad-
] Joining the Eastern School. The for
| mer will afford long-needed relief In
the Chevy Chase Cleveland Park area
| This building, together with the new
Lafayette Elementary School will per-
! NIT the removal of three portables from
the E. v. Brown School playground
three more from the John Eaton
School playground and two from the
| old Broad Branch road site, where a
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| served for several years.
The Eliot Junior High School will be
| opened with only seventh and eighth
| grade classes, so relief will be afforded
| hitherto crowded schools in the Eastern
| section of the city. This building will
relieve Eastern High School next year
| by establishing q ninth-year class and
thus leaving the senior high school only
three years to accommodate. 1t also
win permit removal Of the portables at
the Kingsman and Maury Schools.
Through the opening Of these two
! junior high schools all seventh and
/ eighth grades will be permanently re-
| moved from elementary schools in the
| eastern half Of the District, with the
| exception Of isolated schools in Ana
| costa, Benning and Langdon. SINH
larly, all seventh and eighth grades will
be removed from the Georgetown Sec
ton, excepting the Grant School.
Established in Southwest.
The Southwest part of the city al
ready is well established on the junior
! high school plan, while the opening OF
the new construction tomorrow will re-
move the two highest grades from all
Chevy Chase and Tenleytown elemen-
| tary schools.
The senior high schools are preparing
for record rolls this year. One reliable
indication of the increased enrolment
is the number of pupils from schools
other than public schools who have ap-
piled to the boards of high school ad-
missions. The board for the white
schools interviewed 602 children dur
ing Thursday and Friday, while the
proximately 100 more are expected to
apply for admission to the colored high
schools this week. however.
Mckinley High School Is expecting
the greatest congestion this year. AL
though designed for 1900 students, il
probably will enroll between 2,100 ana
$500. Armstrong High School may
lead in increased enrolment with indi-
cations pointing, to student body Of
/ 1900. Dunbar expects 1900, also.
The completion Of the addition tt
Burleith- Georgetown district will re-
lieve Western High School Of the dou-
ble-shift program it was forced into BY
the unexpectedly heavy increase in en-
rollments last year.
Large Increases Expected.
| Central High School anticipates a roll
of more than 1900. while Business High
School, which next year will be moved
s,-A los
construction at Thirteenth street anc
Iowa avenue, will continue accommo.
dating approximately 1000 or 1900 stu.
dents in building designed to hole
Langley Junior High School, adjoin
ing Mckinley High, anticipates a rea
lam, but looks forward to relief from
the opening Of the new Taft JUNO,
High School in Brookland in anothe,
18 months.
In addition to those eliminated b,
the opening of the Deal and the clio
Junior High schools, the portable
which will be removed from Service
include two at RoSedale and Twentieth
streets northeast, through the openinl
of the Young (platoon) School; fou
at Wesley Heights through the open
ing Of the new Horace Mann School
two at the Whittier School through tht
opening of an addition to that build
ing; one at the Brookland, and one a
Tenth and Franklin streets northeas
through the opening Of the new CROSBY
Noyes School, and two at the Syphal
School through the transfer of thu
Smallwood School to the colored di
visions.
Besides these, three more portables
now used as storehouses for schoo
property at their respective sites viii
be torn down by the end Of the frs
week of school. One each remain a.
the Mann School, the Lafayette Schoo
and the NoyeS School.
Opening Of the Smallwood School a.
colored school will relieve the con.
gestion generally in Southwest Wash
ington.
| COlOred Schools Benefit.
The greatest relief in the colorec
schools, however, is that to be gained
from the transfer Of the Monroe Scloo
to the colored divisions. The 594 chill.
dren who were in part-time classes al
the Bruce School last Spring and the
258 who were similarly on half-timt
at the Mott School will be placed on q
full-time instruction schedule through
the use of the Monroe buildings II
rooms for colored pupils.
Heavy enrollments at the Garnet
Patterson Junior High School have
lnecessitated the establishment of 1,06C
as the maximum number Of children
which this school will accept. Many
other junior hight school children liy'