Evening star., 1933-09-03
SCHOOLS To OPEN
HERE ON SEPT. IS
Record Enrolment Near 1O,.
600 Expected in City
This Year.

With orly two weeks remaining be-
fore the public schools reopen. Sep
tember 1S, Washington school author
tiles are making plans for expeditions
enrolment of the largest student body
in the Districts history. The enroll
ment is expected to approach the 100.-
900 mark since last years peak eX-
ceeded 10000.
The beginning of the new school year
will witness the opening Of only l6
new class rooms. Four of these will be
in the new Rose Lees Hardy School on
Foxhall roac. serving Foxhall Village
and adjacent territory This school is
- new institution, that section of the
..1y having been without school facili-
ties since the village development was
begun more than seven years ago. Chill
dren in that territory previously were
required to attend the Fillmore School
at Thirty NTH and r streets or the
Horace Mann School at Wesley Heights.
The new Hardy School is the first
unit of what eventually will be l6-
class room and auditorium gymnasium
school of the most modern type 1t
was named in honor of Miss Rose Lees
Hardy, expert in elementary education
and an assistant superintendent OF
District schools who died last year.
Taft School Delayed.
Four of the new rooms to be opened
for the first time this month are In
the Kenilworth School, new. four
room building erected to replace the
abandoned original Kenilworth School
Building, which was threatened With
collapse more than year ago.
The remaining eight new class rooms
are in the addition to the Bancroft
School in the Mount Pleasant section.
The original Bancroft building was
overcrowded for many seasons and
the addition will relieve not only con-
ditions at that school but also the con-
gestion in other schools in that section
Of the city.
The new William Howard Taft Junior
High School. now nearing completion
and designed to serve the Langdon-
Woodbridge Burroughs section of north
east Washington will not be turned
over to the District by the contractors
until October IS. the most recent COM
pletion date" set
This is the "cupola school, over
which bitter fights were waged last year
for the incorporation of Colonial type
cupola in its design. The cupola was
slashed from the design prepared by
the late Albert L. Harris. municipal
architect, as a result of the fight OF
former Representative Simmons, Re-
publican, of Nebraska. who objected
to what he called "doo-dads" for Wash
ington school houses.
Board Meets September 13.
While October Is is set as the COM
pletion date, it will be at least 80 days
more before the new building can be
properly equipped for occupancy. The
Taft School will afford relied to the
elementary schools and to the Langley
Junior High School.
The school authorities annual in
structions for the enrolment of pupils
have not yet been issued, but they will
be substantially the same as on previous
years. New pupils-those entering the
public schools for the first time-will be
required to show evidence of successful
vaccination before they will be eligible
for admittance to any school. Children
who are to enter first grade should be
taken by their parents or guardians to
the school nearest their homes for
initial enrolment Pupils who we're in
school last year should report to their
former classrooms, from which they will
be transferred to their new quarters.
The Board of Education itself will
meet for the first time following the
Summer vacation at the board room in
the Franklin School administration
building at Thirteenth and K streets
September 49, Last-minute plans for
the operation of the system under the
economy y-slashed budget will be worked
out at that meeting.