Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-09
Prince Georges
Orders 12-Year
School System
PIon Long Advocated
By Parents, Teachers
Effective Next Fall

Establishment of a 12-year system
for white and colored schools in
Prince Georges County, long advo-
Gated by county civic and parent
teacher associations, will become a
reality next fall.
Plans for reorganization of white
schools in order to effect the transit
ton from the present 11-year sys-
TEN were announced yesterday by
Supt. Of Schools G. Gardner Shu-
CART. A similar revamping of the
colored school system was announced
last month.
Z Six Thousand to Be Affected.
To facilitate the change, in which
approximately 5000 students enter
ing the seventh and eighth grades
will receive an extra year of high
school instruction, the following pu-
pill transfers will be made:
1 Eighth-grade students from the
Laurel Elementary School and
9th, 9th, 10th and 18th grade pupils
from Bowie High School will attend
Laurel High. Since the Bowie
School combines both elementary
and high school, the change will
result in the closing of the high
school. Seventh-grade pupils at
Bowie will continue to attend the
school.
Greenbelt High School will receive
eighth-grade students from the
Beltsville School and seventh and
eighth grade pupils from the Green
belt and Berwyn Elementary
Schools.
Split in One Case.
y Eighth-grade students from the
Hyattsville, College Park, University
Park and Calvert Hills Elementary
Schools will attend Hyattsville High
School. One-half of the eighth
grade students from the Riverdale
School also will attend Hyattsville
High while the remaining one-half
will attend Bladensburg High.
Eighth-grade students from the
Brentwood, Ager Road and j. Enos
Ray Elementary Schools will at
tend Mount Rainier High School.
Those in the seventh grade in these
schools will attend the Brentwood
School.
Bladensburg High School will re-
ceive eighth-grade students from
the Bladensburg, Wildercroft, Lam
ham, Cottage City and Glenn Dale
Elementary Schools.
Ninth, tenth and eleventh grade
students living at Suitland who
now attend Surrattsville High
School and eighth-grade students
from the Lyndon Hill, Seat Pleas
ant and Bradbury Heights Schools
will attend Maryland Park High.
Seventh-grade students from the
Hyattsville, College Park, Univer-
sity Park and Calvert Hills Schools
and one-half Of the seventh-g grade
pupils from Riverdale School will at
tend Hyattsville Elementary School.
The remaining oile-half of the
seventh-grade pupils from River
dale will attend the Bladensburg
Elementary School.
Plan Junior High.
Bladensburg Elementary also will
be made a seventh grade center for
students from the Wildercroft, Lam
ham, Cottage City and Glenn Dale
Schools. Seventh-grade pupils now
at Bladensburg Elementary will re-
main there.
Lyndon Hill School will be made
a junior high school for seventh and
eighth grade students from the Suit
land and District Heights Schools
and seventh-grade pupils from the
Lyndon Hill, Seat Pleasant and
Bradbury Heights Schools. One
half of the Forestville School
seventh-grade students also will at
tend Lyndon Hill while the remain
der will attend the combined MARI
boro Elementary and High School.
Students in the first six grades of
these schools will attend either the
Capitol Heights or Seat Pleasant
Schools.
Seventh and eighth grade students
from the Surrattsville, Camp Springs
and Silver Hill Schools will attend
lSurrattsville High while those in the
same grades at the Marlboro, Multi
kin, Nottingham and Brookridge
Elementary Schools will attend
Marlboro High.
I Need 10 More Teachers.
Seventh and eighth grade stu
dents at the combined Oxon Hill
Elementary and High School will
remain there while seventh-grade
students from the Brandywine
Baden and Accokeek Schools will
attend Gwynn Park High.
Mr.. Shugart emphasized that
plans for both the white and COL
ored schools must be approved by
the State superintendent of schools
before becoming final. He estimated
that about 10 additional teachers
will be needed to effect the change
in white schools.