Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10

The above table shows that each
year from 1888 to 1886 enrolment
on the opening day of school was
greater than the enrolment on the
opening day of the preceding year.
In 1887, for various reasons, the
opening day of school witnessed a
decrease of 1910 pupils. However.
1888 showed an increase over 1887 of
532 pupils.
A glance at these figures will show
how difficult it is to estimate school
enrolment on the opening day of
school. However, a declining birth
rate throughout the Nation has sub
stantially decreased the enrollmentS
In elementary schools. Such de-
crease has not been felt in WASH
ington as much as it has been felt in
other cities because such decrease
as might have resulted from a de-
Ginning birth rate has been offset to
some extent by the number of new
pupils coming into the school system
each year. Many pupils do not
enroll on the opening day of school
because their parents have not yet
reached Washington.
New Buildings Data.
The following tabulation shows
the buildings that have been appro-
priated for and the probable dates
OF completion of construction:
Calvin Coolidge Senior High
School, at Fifth and Sheridan
streets NV, February II, 1910.
Banneker Junior High School, To-
Gated on Euclid street between
Ninth street and Georgia avenue
NV, September 81, 1899.
Rudolph School, eight-room ex-
tensible building on the site of the
Petworth Playground. Third and
Hamilton streets NV, not yet de-
termined.
In addition to the above buildings
the following additions to present
buildings have been secured through
P. w. A. funds. The dates of the
completion of these buildings are
indicated:
Bancroft School, assembly-gym
nasium, September 3, 1899; Giddings
School, bly-gymnasium, Au-
gust 81, 1889; Kingsman School,
eight-room addition and assembly,
gymnasium, February IT, 1910; Mon
roe School, assembly-gymnasium,
August IL, 1899; Smothers School,
eight-room addition and assembly,
gymnasium, November 8, 1899; M. NJ
Washington Vocational School, 10
room addition and assembly-gym-
nasium, and additional room for
cleaning and dyeing, March IA, 1910;
Whittier School, assembly gymna-
SUM. July 20, 1899: Bunker Hill
School, new eight-room building and
assembly-gymnasium -four rooms to
remain unf1nished), to replace the
present Bunker Hill School, October
4, 1899.
AS the information indicates,
these buildings and additions to
buildings will be completed and &C.
cupied before the end of the school
, year, 1939-40. The school system
Is greatly in need of additional
schoolhouse accommodations and
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congressional committees are be-
coming increasingly convinced of
that fact.
Five New Clerical Positions.
The clerical and secretarial work
Of the public school system is per-
formed by staff of 1T clerks. This
number includes five new clerical
positions which were appropriated
for in the Appropriations Act for
1910 and which are distributed, one
each, to the Abbot Vocational
School, Anacostia Junior Senior
High School, Banneker Junior High
School, Cardozo High School and
the woodrow Wilson High School.
The custodial staff of TAI employees
In 1899 was increased in the Appro-
priations Act for 1910 by 10 posi-
tions, distributed as follows: Ban
neker Junior High School, 6; Lenox
(Chamberlain) Vocational school,
1; Moves School, /; Rudolph
School, 2.
In 1938-39 there were salaries for
B,093 teachers. In addition to the
1908 teachers salaries, the public
schools of the District of Columbia
now receive certain funds from the
Federal Government under the
George-Deen Act for vocational ed
ucation. Teachers salaries can be
created out of the savings which are
made, which savings are matched
by the Federal Government. The
Appropriations Act for 1910 carries
b additional salaries for teachers
h the vocational, junior and senior
high schools, and in the Third De-
ociency Act for 1889 seven salaries