Evening star., 1941-09-22
Schools
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have delayed the reporting Of this
class until this afternoon.
Total May Be 1906.
Nor, they added, does it include
Jewish students who have been ex-
cused for the Jewish holiday.
Last year, opening day registra-
ton for Anacostia Junior High to-
tailed 829. If today's enrolment is
approximately the same, the figure
for the Is schools will be raised to
9,3O6.
A tour of some of the Southeast
elementary schools early today re-
vealed good sized classes forming,
with perhaps the heaviest pressure
at the Benning School. Mrs. E. D.
Armes, teaching principal at the
Benning, reported registration of
442, with numerous pupils still wait
ing in the corridors. This is more
than double the 204 who signed up
at the Benning on opening day last
year.
No other figures on enrolment will
be available until late this after
noon or tomorrow morning, it was
said, the special check being kept
only on the Anacostia- -Benning
schools, where the pressure is ex-
pected to be heaviest because of the
national defense population influx
to those areas.
Discount First Day Figures. :,
School officials discounted first
day figures as measure of the load
they will be required to bear, saying
that a clearer picture will be avail
able by the end of the week. They
said they had no knowledge of how
many pupils would delay entering
because of the Jewish holy days.
They declared, however, that the last
time school opening fell on the holy
days, in 1881, the difference between
the opening -day registration and the
end of the week was more than 8, 700.
The year previous the difference was
4,300 and the year following $500.
This might indicate between 5000
and 1000 Jewish children attend
public schools.
up, five at Benning School, five at
the Ketcham-Van Buren, and two
at Randle Highlands-O Orr, according
to Acting Superintendent of Schools
r. L. Haycock.
Two of the five at Benning are
housed in two portable buildings at
tached to the main eight-room
structure. Another is in a base
ment room and two others are on
part time.
Navy Department Influx.
At the Ketcham-Van Bureau
School, where opening day registra-
ton already is SO over that of last
year, the five additional classes are
formed especially to handle the
children from the Navy Depart
ment's housing project between
Boiling Field and the Naval Re-
search Laboratory. Four of the
five groups, Mr.. Haycock said, will
be cared for in the old Van Burer
building, which was abandoned last
January on completion of an addi-
ton at Ketcham. The fifth will be
held in a downstairs room at Ketch-
UNI, previously used as a practical
arts room.
The remaining two new classes al
Orr school are part time sessions
the groups sharing the same class.
room, one in the morning and an.
other in the afternoon. Enrolment
reported there already is 81 above
opening day last year.
Mr.. Haycock said he believed th'
parochial schools, which opened
earlier this month, have absorbed
some of the population increase il
the area. Elsewhere in the educa
tional system indications were tina
opening day registration was goin,
smoothly, and night school official
were preparing to take over tn
buildings where night sessions ar