Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-31

Mclean, with a pupil capacity
Of 480, built at a cost of $780,
900.
Parklawn School. intended
for seventh and eighth graders.
is behind its building schedule
and will not be open until a
week from tomorrow. Students
will make up the lost week
later in the year. The capacity
is 600 pupils and the cost,
$456,000.
A fourth school, Edsall Park
Elementary, will be ready for
occupancy sometime in Novern-
Der to accommodate 400 stu
dents. Its cost is $382,000.
PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY
The enrolment of 81 GOT stu
dents includes more than ST.
900 elementary school pupils.
Some 1877 new teaching posi-
tons and 144 additional class
rooms since last year will be
available to help take care of
the $500 student increase.
The school bus fleet has been
increased by 90 vehicles, bring
ing the total this year to 215.
The county is in its best posi-
ton in the case of double
shifts since 1856 when q record
2,467 pupils were on double
sessions.
This year. 270 seventh and
eighth graders will be on double
shifts at Laurel Senior High
School until November, when
the new Laurel Junior High is
completed. About 1870 first
graders will attend double shifts
at Forest Heights Elementary
School all year.
A space-saving extended-day
initiated at Bladens-
burg Senior High School last
year, will be continued at that
school and started at Suitland
Senior High.
At Bladensburg, about 1900
of the 1900 enrolment will
start classes at 8 am, with the
remainder coming in at stag
gered hours up to IL am. Stu
dents will be leaving school
between 1870 and 4::30 pm.
At Suitland, the bulk of the
l $50 student body will start
classes at 9 am, and the re-
mainder will arrive one hour
earlier.
School officials have planned
for a 182-day school year, in
two days when schools
may be closed because of deep
snow.
New schools to be opened are
the Buck Lodge Junior High
at Adelphi and, in November,
Laurel Junior High. Elemen-
tarieS to be opened are the
Berwyn Heights, Carmody Hills.
Chestnut Hills in Beltsville.
Gaywood in Lanham, Holly
Park in Hollywood. Mccormick
in Langley Park, and Riverdale
Hills.
Additions will be opened at
the Forestville, Suitland and
Park Elementary
Schools and at Northwestern
High School in HyattSville.
ARLINGTON
An enrolment of 23,500 is
expected to include 300 more
Junior high students, 600 more
senior high students, but 400
fewer elementary students. The
elementary school drop Is the
first in years, and officials be-
lieve it reflects the move Of
World War II babies from the
elementary into the JUROR high
level.
The only new construction
will be at Kenmore Junior High
where the second and final unit
Of the $2.5 million building is
ready to be opened for the fall
term. The first unit opened
two years ago.
Temporary double shifts will
be held for some students at
Cherrydale and Clay elemen-
taries because of remodeling.
At Cherrydale, 900 children in
IL classes will report to double
shifts. pupils in the first
through fourth grades at Clay
.240 in eight classes-will go
to Fillmore. Fifth graders viii
go to Wilson and Monroe and
sixth graders to Barrett and
Maury, altogether about 100
children. Construction work at
both schools should be COM
pleted by mid-term.
Shifts are being made in Sec
ondary schools to avoid over
crowding in North Arlington
schools. Children who were
graduated from Williamsburg
Junior High will be shifted to
Wakefield instead Of attending
Westinghouse High. Some
students who were graduated
from elementary school will go
to Swanson Junior High instead
Of Williamsburg, and other
seventh graders will go to Ken
more Junior High instead Of
Swanson. Some TOO students
are involved in these shifts.
ALEXANDRIA
Total enrolment of 14,780 is
to represent an in
crease Of more than 300 over
last year.
Two new schools will open
when the session begins a week
from tomorrow, the William
Ramsey and the yles-Crouch
elementaries. Lyles Crouch,
built for Negro students. is in
Alexandria and will
replace a nearby old Lyles-
Crouch school. The Ramsey
built for white students.
IS between the Dowden Terrace