Evening star., 1948-09-12
IA Building Projects
Expand D. {. Schools
Al Cost Of $9,775,000
rteen major nublic school

Fourteen major public school
building projects-costing ap-
proximately So, IT'S, ,000-are under
way in the District at present
and are expected to be COM
pleted, before the end of nexi
year. e,.,.ea d, s.,,,.s ..-ss5;ss
In addition, four other projects
totaling $2.44o.000 will be adver.
tized for bids from contractors in
the next few months.
All classroom space is needed to
meet immediate needs without look
ing into the future, school officials
said. Increasing school enrolment,
which is expected to reach peak
in 1852, has them worried and
everything is being done by both
school heads and the municipal
architects Office to speed construc-
ton.
"One encouraging trend is evi-
dent now, however" D. Chester
Cutcheon, acting associate super
intendent in charge of buildings and
grounds, said. 1--WE are getting q
number of bids on each project we
advertize and the bids are within
the appropriations authorized by
Congress.
Two Jobs Deferred,
Two projects, however. have been
deferred until the cost limit can be
raised since the money appropriated
Is not enough to let the contracts
There are the new Spingarn High
School, to be built at Twenty fourth
street and Benning road NE. at an
estimated cost of $3,620,00 (con-
gressional limit is $2,050,00O, and
an addition to the Bannecker Junior
High School, to cost an estimated
$250,000 congressional limit, $175,-
000).
In the planning stage only-that
is Congress has approved the con.
struction and appropriated none,
for drawing architects plans-ar.
another II projects totaling ap.
proximately $11, 1,486,000.
How the Work Is Progressing.
Projects under construction al
present, their cost, approximate per
centage of work completed and ex.
pected date of completion are q!
follows:
Randall Junior High School ad.
dition, First and I streets NV
($450, ,000), 80 per cent complete
ready in November: Logan Elemen.
tary School addition, Third and c
streets NE. (s498 ,00O, So per CEN
complete, ready next March: Kim
ball Elementary School addition
Minnesota avenue and Ely plac,
Sc. $(525,00O, Is per cent com.
plete, ready next May; Anacostis
High School third floor completion
Sixteenth and r streets Sc. ($128,.
75O), SO per cent complete, ready ir
November.
Also, new Kelly Miller JUNO,
High School, Forty ninth street ane
Washington place NE. (s1,741 5000
10 per cent complete ready mex
July; new Tyler Elementary School
Eleventh and g streets Sc. (s670,-
00o, 80 per cent complete, ready
next March; Taft Junior High
School addition, Eighteenth anc
Perry streets NE. t$874,525), % pei
cent complete, ready next july; new
Sousa Junior High School, Thirty
fourth street and Minnesota avenue
Sc. 81, 1895, ,00O, 4 per cent COM
pIete, ready November. 1919; Crum-
nell Elementary School addition
Fourteenth and Jackson streets NE
| (s115.o00). just started, ready In
December; new Montgomery Ele-
mentary School, New Jersey avenue
and p street NV. $500, ,000), 5 per
cent completed, ready next June.
Four to Be Advertised.
Also, Young Elementary School
addition, Twenty fourth street and
Benning road NE. ($244.475). 5
per cent completed, ready next
March; Beers Elementary School
addition, Alabama avenue and
Thirty sixth place Sc, f$487, ,800), 5
per cent completed, ready Septen-
Der, 1949; new Nalle Elementary
school, East Capitol and Benning
road ($775, ,000), just started, ready
next July, and new Birney Elemen.
tary School, Nichols avenue and
1See BUILDING, Page ESD