Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-03
HIGH SCHOOLS GET
100 NEW PUPILS
FOR COMING YEAR
Operation of Ninth Grade at
Gordon Junior to Relieve
Western Congestion.
CENTRAL TOPS LIST,
WITH Asst EXPECTED
44s to 60 to Mckinley, 41o to
Eastern and 25S Will Take
Course at Business.

Approximately 100 boys and girls
will be promoted to senior high school
from the elementary and junior high
schools during the scheduled commence
ment exercises, according to estimates
made public today at the Franklin Ad-
ministration Building.
At the same time 1t was estimated
that 2,445 children will go up from the
elementary schools to the junior high
schools.
The LOO scheduled to enter senior
high schools next September represent
an increase of only ~ over the num-
Der promoted to senior high schools a
year ago. This slight increase is caused
by the maintenance Of a ninth grade
in the Gordon Junior High School.
which, through this year. was In fact
only an elementary school, transferring
all its ninth-year pupils to Western
High School and graduating none from
the full junior high school course.
Western TO Get III.
Western High School will receive only
l21 elementary school pupils this year
and only 6 from the junior high schools,
compared with the 252 which Western
enrolled from both sources last year.
This apparent decline also is caused
by the retention Of the ninth grade pu-
pills in the Gordon Junior High School
until they are graduated there.
Our ability next year to operate
ninth grade or first year high school
in the Gordon Junior High School,"
Stephen Kramer. first assistant super
intendent, explained today. will permit
us to eliminate the double shift pro-
gram next year. It leaves us in pretty
good shape for three years to come,
but II, by the end of that time, We do
not have a new high school for the
northwest section Of the city We will
have to revert to the Objectionable
double shift program. That will be the
argument We will take with US into the
hearing this year in our effort to secure
site for a sixth white senior high
school"
Central High School will receive the
largest number of new pupils from the
elementary and junior high schools next
September with Asst scheduled for pro-
motion to it. OF these 312 are going
forward from the junior high schools
and las are from the elementary
schools. Mckinley will be second with
445 newcomers. while Eastern. with 4l0
students headed its way. will be third
Business will receive 253 newcomers
from elementary and junior high schools.
First Division Leads.
The first division of elementary
schools, embracing most of the North
wect section, will send $50 pupils to
senior high schools, to head the list Of
divisions promoting directly to those
schools. The sixth division with 1877
going to senior high schools will be
second. while the nth division, with
1885, will be third. The third and sew
enth divisions each is promoting 1l6,
while the ninth Is promoting only 16.
The Langley Junior High School
probably will promote the largest num-
Der Of its pupils to senior high school,
with 154 on its estimated list. The
Mcfarland Junior High School. with
1873, will be second. while the Column
bia Junior High School, with 1879. will
be third. Other junior high schools
will promote classes 10 senior high
schools as follows: Hine, 12l: Stuart,
Ill; Paul, 1903; Powell, l0l, and JEFF
ferson, a.
Eliot Junior High School will receive
the greatest number OF elementary
school pupils next September. with 492
graded school graduates scheduled to
enter that building with the reopen
ing Of school. The Deal Junior High
School. to be opened for the first time
| next September. will be second. with
473. comprising its initial student body.
Stuart. with 281, will be third.
Other junior high schools and the
| number of elementary school pupils
they will receive in September follow:
Langley. 253: Gordon. 100: Hine. 1873:
Paul, 179; Mcfarland, $50: Jefferson,
lol; Powell, 81. and Columbia, Sc.