Evening star., 1936-01-03
BALLOU SUBMITS
|. BUILDING NEEDS
Asks Finance and LegisIa.
tive Committees of Board
to Study Suggestions.


Three suggestions embracing the
future needs of the administrative
Offices Of the public school system, the
teachers colleges and the senior high
schools, to be made part of the pro-
posed new five-year building program,
were submitted to the Board of Edu-
cation yesterday by DR.. Prank w.
Ballou, superintendent.
DR.. Ballou, however, refrained
from making specific recommends
tiops, but asked that the Finance and
Legislative Committees. Of the board
study the suggestions he had to make.
He also promised to submit further
outlines Of the needs of the school
system, embracing the junior high
schools, the vocational schools and the
elementary schools.
In presenting the need for a new
central administrative building, he
pointed out that field officers Of the
system are now quartered in nearly
score Of buildings in all parts of the
city: there are no adequate facilities
for keeping permanent records of the
board or the administrative officers;
there is no adequate warehouse for
storage purposes; and there is no place
to protect such valuable possessions
as the visual education library from
theft or fire.
Whether one or two buildings
should he constructed was also pre-
sented for consideration, and whether
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ministration Building should be
utilized was asked.
Teachers College.
AS for the two teachers. colleges.
the superintendent recounted that
many suggestions have been made that
both physical plants - Wilson at
Eleventh and Harvard streets and
Miner on Georgia avenue between
Fairmont and Euclid streets-be re-
placed. He asked that if the board
desires to abandon the present sites.
what shall be done with the deserted
plants. where shall the new inStitu-
tions be constructed, and shall the
present sites be used for new teacher
colleges?
Dr. Ballou gave actual enrolment
figures to indicate the need for addi-
tional senior high school facilities.
Citing the six white high schools and
the three colored schools, he showed
that at present they are over popu-
lated by LIT pupils. although three
Of them have less than their maxi
mum capacity Of students.
Central High School, largest in the
city, Dr. Ballou showed, has ca
pacity of 2,400, but actually has en-
rolled 1865, an excess of 265.
Eastern able to handle 2.lo0, ac-
commodities 1876, an excess Of BIO.
Below Capacity.
Mckinley can handle 1900 and
has 2,19o enrolled, ITO less than ca
pacity.
Roosevelt. built for 1900. has 1922
enrolled. That is an overflow Of 222.
Western. able to accommodate
1.4oo. has enrolled 1859. an excess
Of l5s.
Woodrow Wilson, built for l.5on
(and the newest addition to the sys-
tenn. has only 765 students. With
capacity for 735 more, the figure
leave the present system with total
enrolment of II e77 pupils in a total
capacity for only 1890. DR.. BalloI
did not mention the new Anacosta
Junior Senior High School.
In the three colored high schools.
Armstrong. with a capacity for l.ln0.
has an enrolment of 1889, an ex-
cess of 539. making it the second most
overcrowded high school in the city.
Cardozo is overcrswded by 81 ru-
pills, having an enrolment of l,le4
in a capacity of 1850 Dunbar CAL
accommodate SO more than its pres
ent attendance of l.407.
Together the white and colored
senior high schools have an overflow
of LIT pupils. DR.. Ballou did no.
give the current rate of increase in
annual expansion. but indicated that
the few spare spots in the system will
be filled at once unless added facil-
ties are supplied.