Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
CENTRAL HIGH MAY
HAVE DOUBLE SHIFT
1882 Enrolment FIRST Week
Threatens Pupils With
Half Days.

A double shift program, affording its
pupils only half-day's schooling, looms
as a definite threat for Central High
School. which closed the first week Of
the 1882 school year with an enroll
ment of 1882 students.
Built to accommodate scarcely more
than 1000 students. Central probably
will be put en- double shift schedule
as soon as its enrolment passes the
1000 mark. Before this remedy Is
adopted. however, officials said last
night. every other means OF meeting
the emergencies of congestion viii be
tried. The first-week figure OF 1882 is
900 more than the first-week enroll
ment in that school a year ago.
The total enrolment in the public
schools at the end of the first week was
77.7o7, a figure 2.4l3 higher than the
enrolment for the same period last
year.
14,2I0 in Senior Highs.
The senior high schools had enrolled
I4210 against 1921 at the same time
last wear. The junior high schools
rolls totaled 1920, or 2,4o9 more than
a year ago.
The elementary schools were credited
with a loss of LII pupils at the close
of the first week this year, in compare
son with the same week in 1880, Win
an enrolment of 1902. The flrst
week of last year saw 50,l33 chlloren
in elementary schools This years total,
however. is evidence only of further
ADVANCE toward the complete installa-
tion of the Junior high school system,
which places the seventh and eignfn
grades within those newer schools. In
Guiding the seventh and eighth grade
nunils accommodated in junior hlgh
schools, there are this year 58-9OU eIe
rnentarv grade children as compared
with the grand total of 53,l36 elemen-
tary pupils in the schools at the close
of the first week last year.
Western High School, which last was
placed on the double shift scneoule:
this wear is the only senior high scnool
in the CITY to enroll fewer students
than it had the first week OF last term
Westerns first-week roll reached l,TO4
as compared with 1873 OF the same
date in 1880.
Mckinley High School is beginning
to feel the press of excessive enroll
ment with 1862 students. This ngure
represents a gain OF ITO. Mckinney
was designed to accommodate only
! ann students. but it's equipment has
been added to in order to meet heavier
demands.
Other EnroIlments.
Other white senior high school rolls
at the end of the first week were: East
ern. 2.29o, representing gain OF ll5,
and Business, 1927, showing a gain
of II.
Dunbar held the lead in the colored
senior high schools with a roll OF l,476
as the week closed. This was So more
than it accommodated a year ago.
Armstrong was second with 1922 or
166 more than its last years compare
BILE figure, and Cardozo was last with
537. or $50 more than it had last year.
Langley Junior High School closed
the week with 1,471 students to lead
the entire junior high school field.
J Other white junior high school en-
rollments were: Hine, 1,047; Macfar-
land, 933: Paul, 919; Stuart, 905; Cor
don. 90l: Powell, 1870; Jefferson, 592;
Eliot, $50, and Deal, 523.
The Shaw Junior High School en-
rolled 1,275 students to be second in
the city-wide junior high school list
and first in the colored field. Randall
was second with l,137 and Garnet-Pat-
terson was third with 1,006. Other col
ored junior high school rolls were:
Francis, $50, and Cardozo. 270.