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rate prediction, he added.
A definite increase is expected in
the elementary schools, however, as
some 1000 more children will enter
school this fall than last year.
Peak enrolment in the schools.
which went up to $4,000 last year,
will be reached later in the year.
so Per Cent Increase Forecast.
The increased enrolment in the
elementary schools here is following
the countrywide trend and is due
to war babies" just getting old
enough to go to school, DR.. Corning
pointed out. The high birth rate
of the past few years is expected to
jump the enrolment of the white
elementary schools here to 44,417 by
1852, an increase of 1922 or so per
cent, and the colored schools to
1880, an increase of 10,564 or 80
per cent.
AS a result of this jump in en-
rollment, school officials have been
forced to place some students In one
more elementary school on part
time instruction. The first grade
at Stanton Elementary School is the
last to be added to the "over- q,
crowded" list.
This means that tomorrow, five
white elementary schools will have
48 classes on part-time basis.
Some 1000 children will be affected.
all in the lower grades up through
the fourth. Last September when
school opened, only 9l0 white chill
dren were going to school part time.
No increase in part time in the
colored elementary schools is ex-
pected Immediately. But, total OF
II colored elementary schools will
continue to give part-time instruc-
ton in 35 classes to some 1859 chill
dren.
Triple Shift at Cardozo.
At Cardozo High School, the more
than 1900 students will go on what
amounts to "triple-shift." This Is
necessary since the enrolment Is
more than 300 above the rated
capacity of the school.
Under the "triple-shift" system,
however, students will fare better
than last year. The length OF
classes will be increased to the
standard As minutes used In District
high schools. Last year classes were
reduced to IS minutes in an effort
to take care of an enrolment OF
1880
This year the colored high school
will open an hour earlier than usual
and close an hour later. The
school will be divided into three
sections and have three separate
receSseS.
Schools Open at 8.
Opening time for schools tomor-
row is 8 am. with the exception, OF
the vocational high schools, which
will open up at $3.50 am. New
pupils in the elementary schools will
report to the schools at 10 am.
All students of the Powell Junior
High School will report this year
to Central High School. Powell has
been closed down as Junior high
unit and turned over to the Bell
Vocational High School for a voca-
tional training unit. Central, in
turn, will become six-year high
school.
The boys who attend Bell with re-
port to Powell. After classes have
been organized, they will start a
schedule which calls for academic
work at Powell one day and shop
work at Bell the following day.
Some of the students will spend
full time at Powell, since five shops
have been reconditioned there.
Nonresidents Must Pay.
This arrangement will continue,
DR.. Corning explained, until money
can be obtained from Congress TO
convert Powell into a full time voca-
tional high school. The old Bell
building at Seventh and o streets
NV, will be demolished and the
site used for new Shaw Junior
High School.
DR.. Corning emphasized that all
nonresident students tthose dwelling
outside the DISTRICT must pay
tuition this year under the District
APPROPRIATION Act of 1949. There =
are no exceptions, he said. Last
year 1000 nonresident attended
school here.
Nonresident students desiring to
attend District schools should note
the following: Students from the
Takoma Silver Spring area will at
tend Coolidge High School; students
from Virginia will 60 to Central or
Western High School; only students
from the Bethesda Chevy Chase