Evening star., 1948-11-28

the white senior high schools, except
for the recommendations for use
of Central High School. A stadium
for Coolidge, at $310,500, was rec
ommended.
The shift of Bell Vocational High
School into the former Powell Jun
ior High School was approved. This
move was made by the Board Of
Education in September. Changes
to Bell will run 100000, the report
said.
The three colored high schools,
Dunbar, Cardozo and Armstrong,
all are seriously overcrowded and
were rated below adequate.
Additions to give room for $50
more pupils were recommended at
Dunbar as part Of program to
modernize and expand it into plant
for 800 enrolment. 1t now has an
enrolment of more than 1,700 al
though capacity is about 1880. Also
recommended were q new cafeteria,
two modern gymnasiums and en-
llargement and development of the
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mated cost for this was $1,l00,0OO.
New Armstrong High Asked.
Armstrong should be vacated as
senior high school and new Arm
strong High School built on q site
already selected by the Board Of
Education in Brentwood Park at
cost of $4,600,000. Capacity would
be 1000.
The present Armstrong building
should be turned into new educa-
tional unit-a vocational school OF
Junior high level to take care Of
those who could not finish high
school.
/ Cardozo should be abandoned
completely and the students split
between the new Armstrong and
the new Spingarn.
The new Spingarn, which the
school board plans to build at
Twenty-fourth street and Benning
road NE, was recommended at
cost of $4,910,000. A stadium also
was recommended.
DR.. Strayer said the capacity OF
the three high schools for colored
pupils which he recommended would
total $500 with plans for addition
Of 1000 in the future. Present en-
rollment in the three is 4,625 and
the excess is not too much OF a
margin, he said.
Two Schools Praised.
Two colored vocational schools,
Washington and Phelps, although
overcrowded, were rated excellent by
DR.. Strayer.
Nine of the II white junior high
schools were rated adequate. A
complete replacement for Hine was
recommended, as has been done by
the school board, at a cost of ST.
800 900. Stuart should be improved
to the tune of $85, 1000.
Construction of the new Sousa at
81 1895 900 and an addition to Eliot,
at $290,000, both already recon-
mended by the school board, were
asked. improvements to Macfar-
land totaling $85, 900 were suggested.
The colored junior high schools
are operating at % per cent over
load, DR.. Strayer said.
He recommended q $270000 addi-
ton to Banneker to raise its capac-
ity 45O and a $575,000 addition to
Francis to raise capacity by $50,
both of which are on the school
boards program. Also recommended
was an addition to raise capacity
by 400 and new gymnasium at
Browne, costing $920,000.
Would Raze Shaw School.
Shaw should be razed and a new
building erected at Sixth and o
streets NV. at a cost of $3.50, ,00O
Also recommended for razing was
Terrell, to be replaced by a new
school at First and Pierce streets
INV. at $2,300,OO0. The school
board has both Of these projects on
its plan.
Recommended was g. new Junior
high in vicinity Of Pomeroy and
Stanton roads Sc. at $1,840, 900,
also on the board program.
DR.. Strayer recommended these
white elementary schools be aban-
doned:
Brookland because 1t is not At to
be rehabilitated; the old Benning,
for the same reason, leaving, the new
S-room unit standing; Oyster, for
economy, shifting pupils to Adams
and Eaton; lexington, for economy,
transferring pupils to Gage and
Emery; johnson. now annex to Bell,
razed to provide recreational area
for Bell; Carberry, now annex to
Stuart, razed when new Hine Junior
High School Is built; Cranch, Tyler
and Wallach, abandon when new
Tyler, now under construction, Is
completed Gas recommended by
school board; Grant, abandon If
enrolment drops much more and
Amidon, Greenleaf and Fairbrother,