Annual report. [1946]

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conditions as recent as June, 1947, revealed
that there were 2,265 children in the elementary schools on hall-day sessions, as
compared with 1,434 in January, 1946. At
the same time, 4,735 were being transported
as compared with 4,102 on the previous
January. In addition to this, 7,582 were
housed in temporary or obsolete buildings,
as compared with approximately a like
number of six months previously. In all, the
June, 1947, housing report showed 14,582
children in the elementary schools inadequately housed, as compared with 12,875
inadequately housed as of January, 1946.
Secondary Housing Needs Great
The high school housing problem offers a
need of major concern. In January of this
year there were 24,662 children on hall-day
sessions. This number is approximately the
same as for January, 1946 and represents
one-hall the enrollment. It should be borne
in mind that while these students are on
hall-day sessions, yet they receive all of the
academic instruction that would be possible
were they on a full program. They are,
however, required to do practically all of
their studying outside of the school building.
In addition to the four completed building projects of the school year just ended,
the Board has twelve projects for new
buildings or additions for which contracts
have been let and work is under way. These
projects represent a cost in excess of
$5,200,000, although they were originally
estimated at $3,100,000. The cost increase
results partly from the necessity for enlarging the building plans because of increases

to a high school. The eleven elementary
buildings here referred to will increase the
capacity by 4,300 pupils. In the area served
by these eleven elementary buildings, there
were in June of this year 2,296 children
transported at public expense, 1,25:3 on
hall-day sessions, and 1,465 children housed
in temporary school quarters.
Of the estimated building needs included
in the thirty-four projects submitted in
January, 1946, there remain eighteen
unaffected by the present program. In addition, however, it has been necessary to add
another twenty building projects because of
the rapidly increasing number of children
of school age in certain of the newer,
undeveloped areas of the city.
A study of the two-page map of the city
as reproduced in this report reveals that in
the areas west of Greenfield Road, designated (H-I-J) there were in 1940 a total of
22,350 families. Six years later., however,
the number of families had increased in this
area to 37.,930. The 1947 school census is
still in the process of tabulation, but will
undoubtedly -show a further substantial
increase in the number of families in this
northwest area.
Families Double In Year
In the area north of Six.Mile Road lying
between Woodward and Greenfield, here
designated as area "G. pages 16, 17, there
were 9,886 families in 1940. This number
had increased to 16.,560 in 1946.
In the extreme northeast part of the city,
designated as area "C" on the map, there
were 17,228 families in 1940. L~ast year the,