Evening star., 1954-09-22
More Transfers
of Junior High
Pupils Planned
Further Speedup
OfSchool lntegrotion
Announced by D. c.
By jones 6. Deone

District school officials plan
to invite more Negro junior high
school pupils to transfer to for
mer white schools next week.
Officials have decided to speed
the use of new non-racial junior
high boundaries, along with new
boundaries in senior high and
grade schools, it was learned
today.
Senior high and elementary
students eligible to attend a
different school under the nom
racial boundaries already have
been invited to ask for transfer.
Officials now plan to extend the
same invitation to junior high
students, both white and Negro.
Junior high principals will be
informed of the new plan to-
morrow. Pupils will be required
to submit transfer requests by
next Monday, the same day as
the deadline for elementary
school transfer requests.
Several hundred additional
transfers may result, one official
said. They probably will take
place October 4.
Basis for transfer action en-
both levels is a decision to put
new non-racial school boundaries
into effect sooner than originally
planned for pupils who were en-
rolled last year. The new
boundaries already are in. effect
for new pupils.
Surplus of Space.
DR.. Corning disclosed last week
that formerly white high schools
had more extra space than an
ticipated after enrolling fall
students Monday and that more
colored pupils could be accom-
modated in them.
Assistant Supt. Harold A.
Haynes subsequently revealed
that 438 students in the four
high schools of the former coll
ored division repeatedly wanted
to transfer elsewhere.
Students invited to seek trans.
fer are those living in new nom
racial zones outside those of the
schools they now attend. Under
lntegration plans, all such stu-
dents have a choice of moving
to the proper school according
to the new map, or staying where
they are. 81
DR.. Corning announced yes
terday that 452 high school stu
dents have asked for transfers.
Officials today were checking adj
dresses, and quick action on tho
requests was expected. One off,
cial said he hoped they could be
carried out by next week.
Permission Not Automatic.
OF the 452 high school students
who want to move, all but a few
are understood to be colored.
DR.. Corning said they want to
go to the following schools, in
the numbers indicated: Eastern,
173; Roosevelt, 1873; Mckinley,
SO; Anacostia, 26; Western, 8;
Spingarn, 6; Dunbar, Q; Arm
strong, Cardozo and Coolidge, /
each.
Only Mckinley has any sizable
group of colored students as yet
among the formerly all-white
high schools, although Eastern
already has a majority of colored
youngsters in its Junior high unit.
Officials have not disclosed
whether all the requested trans
fers will be permitted. No plans
for similar transfers on the
junior high level have yet been
announced, either. Junior high
graduates next February are
slated to enter high schools with
out race restriction anyway.
On the elementary level, par
ents are to be asked to make
written requests for transfers by
next Monday, if they wish them.
The transfers granted will be
made October 4. At least several
thousand transfers may be made,
although officials have made no
estimate of the potential number.
Some teacher shifts may also
be required by the pupil moves,
Associate Supt. Carl F. Hansen
said.