Evening star., 1943-08-31
District Public Schools
Open September. 70;
Schedules Listed

Washington public schools will
open Monday September 20, on the
following schedule. Frank W. Ballou,
superintendent, announced today:
Elementary schools at 9 am,
Junior and senior high schools at
$3.50 am, with the exception of
Browne Junior High, which for the
present will operate on a staggered
schedule, and vocational schools at
$50 am.
First t-time pupils applying for ad-
mission this term must appear with
their parents from 4 to 6 pm. Fri
day, September IT, The law pro-
vides that mo child shall be ad-
mitted to public schools who shall
not have been duly vaccinated On
otherwise protected against small
pox." Principals also will interview
parents September 18 from 8 to 10
am. Children seeking to enter kim
dergartens and elementary grades
are urged to apply to the principals
of schools nearest their homes.
For admission to junior high
schools, in the seventh, eighth and
ninth grades, pupils should apply to
those schools in the areas in which
they live. To facilitate the registra-
ton in these grades, principals will
be on hand at the schools from to-
morrow on. Applicants must bring
with them a copy of the last report
card and birth and vaccination
certificates.
f. Students new to the city who plan
to enter the ninth grade, divisions
l to'9e twhite schools, may be ad-
mitted to Central High School, pro-
vided they live in that schools ter
ritory. Other senior high schools
in divisions to 8 do not offer a
ninth year of instruction.
Students new to senior high
school courses in the 10th. 11th
and 18th year are also advised that
they must apply at those schools
nearest their homes. Credentials
from the school previously attended
are required, in addition to the birth
and vaccination certification. Quail
1f1ed students desiring an intensive
business course may seek admission
at Roosevelt High School, and shop
work pupils or those interested in
nome economics courses are expected
10 apply at Mckinley High School.
For colored pupils of the 10th, 18th
and 18th year, registration is possible
at the Dunbar High School if thev
desire academic instruction; to
Armstrong High if they wish shop
courses or to the Cordozo High
School II they plan to undertake
courses in business.
Students desiring admission to the
Abbot, Chamberlain or Dennison
Vocational Schools should apply to
the principals of those schools. This
procedure also should be followed for
admission to the Phelps or Margaret
Murray Washington Vocational
Schools.
Calvin Coolidge High School will
accommodate the pupils living in the
Tacoma-Silver Spring area. Virginia
pupils, on the other hand. will at
tend Central or Western High
School. whichever is nearest their
homes.
Maryland pupils living south of
Massachusetts, avenue and east of
the District line may be enrolled at
Anacostia High School. Non-resi-
dent pupils In Maryland who ordi-
narily would attend Taft Junior
High School will be admitted to
Langley Junior High School. the
superintendents Office advised.
Other nonresident pupils whose
homes are in Maryland who ordi-
narily attend the Kramer Junior
High will be enrolled in either the
Eliot or Hine Junior High Schools,
depending upon the location of their
MONIES. Since Deal Junior High is
already overcrowded, no non-resi-
cent pupils will be admitted.
Bethesda and Chevy Chase pupils
may be admitted to Gordon or Mac
farland Junior High Schools. but no
seventh-year nonresident pupils will
be admitted at the Paul Junior High
school, Acting Superintendent of
schools r. L. Haycock warned. Nom
residents already enrolled there.
however, will be permitted to re-
main. Schools which will accommo-
GATE. the seventh-year nonresident
pupils are the Mcfarland and Pow
ell Junior High Schools,
Evening schools will open Monday
evening, September 20, and informa.
ton about them may be obtained
from E. j. Lockwood, director of eve
ming and summer schools (white)
at the Central High School. Thir-
teenth and Clifton streets NV
The telephone number there is co.
2683, G. o. Lewis, director of eve
ming and summer schools (colored)
may be reached at Shaw Junior
High School, Seventh street and
Rhode Island avenue NV.