Evening star., 1935-07-03
WOODROW WILSON
HIGH MAKESP[ANS
FOR 900 STUDENTS
Staff Of 30 Teachers to
Relieve CroWding at
Western High.
PUPILS LIVING IN AREA
TO GO TO new SCHOOL
Kramer Expects 1900 to 1000 in
Year or So-Anacostia Plans
Wait Upon Building.

Organization plans now being made
for the new Woodrow Wilson High
School call for an institution this COM
ing year which will care for 900
pupils and be stalled by about 30
teachers.
First Asst. Supt. OF Schools Stephen
E. Kramer and Norman J. Nelson. re-
Gently appointed principal, have been
hard at work for several weeks map
ping out details of pupils and teach
ers' shifts and staff organization.
A. territory bounded on the north
by the District line. on the south and
west by Massachusetts, avenue and
Woodley road. and on the east by
Rock Creek Park, has been assigned
to the school. The requirement that
pupils In that area attend the Woodrow
Wilson School will be rather rigidly
enforced because of overcrowded con-
ditions at Western High School,
Kramer said. He added, however, that
considerable latitude will be allowed
pupils from other areas who wish to
go to Woodrow Wilson.
1t is expected to transfer about 400
pupils and Is teachers from Western
to the Woodrow Wilson, since this
number of Western students now live
within the territory assigned to the
new school.
500 Others Expected.
In addition about 300 pupils who
were graduated from the Alice Deal
Junior High School last month will be
enrolled. approximately 100 students
will be transferred from Central High
School and school officials estimate
that approximately 100 children not
previously accounted for will be on
hand when the school opens next
September.
For the first year there will be only
two grades, the tenth and eleventh, but
thereafter the school will operate on
a regular three-year basis.
The current appropriation act pro-
vides for the salaries of only IS addi-
tional teachers to stan the Woodrow
Wilson, making necessary the shift Of
teachers from Western, which will
furnish the largest contingent OF
| pupils.
DR.. Kramer said he expected that
the new high school will grow rapidly
reaching an enrolment of l,500 OF
1000 students within year or SC
after its opening.
With only 80 teachers. classes at
the woodrow Wilson will be somewhat
larger than the average for the white
high schools here. Each teacher would
be required to instruct about 80 chill.
dren. whereas the average is % anc
the ideal is figured at 26.
Other Teachers May Be Shifted.
All the teachers at Woodrow Wilson
will not necessarily be new to the
school system or transfers from West
ern, since shifts also may be made
involving individuals at other high
schools, DR.. Kramer said.
A paradoxical situation developed
in this regard when several Mckinley
High School teachers requested few
days ago to be transferred to the
Woodrow Wilson in order to be re-
lieved of the added burdens incident
to administration of the character
education program at Mckinley. I'm
mediately upon the heels Of this re-
quest, the Board Of Education voted
Monday to transfer the character
education program itself from McKn'
ley to the Woodrow Wilson.
No organization plans have ye'
been made for the new Anacostis
Junior High School because schoo
officials do not believe 1t will be ready
for occupancy until the beginning o1
| the February term. The Anacostia
opening originally was scheduled fol
September, but school authorities art
afraid construction delays will neces'
state the postponement.