I 70.000 ENROLLMENT
II SCHOOLS FACED
j| This Record Predicted as
First Week’s Total Con-
I • tinues to Gain.
VV •'Analysis of the enrollment figures
M the'first w«pk of the public schools
i, I fhrni there wfr* 66.721 pupils #n
r’ffliwi on Frida v a a compared with
;] *£.861 on th® earn® dav last year. or
■ I ala increase of 861 pupils.
; VlThis increase. announced last night
r I M- Dr. F-ank W. Ballou, superintend-
I ent. la slightly less than was anttri
; I pat»d. hut th® school official*. judging
I ffinm peat experiences. haa predicted
: I title would be a loan enrollment year
with an apprn\imat* Increase of be-
I tween 1 ,nr>«i and 1 .200 pupil*.
:;v ‘Th® enrollment of 61,237 thp first
'-.I 4iy of arhool wa« surprisingly low.
I h’jt each dav of th® wpak ahowpd an
I in/rease of a trlflo tnorp than 1.000
I pupila with thp five day* rolling up
I a K grand total increase of 5,484 ovpr
• I thp opening. figures.
Th® pnrollmont Tuesday waa *3.978
I an* oomparPd with 64.481 in 1925; on
I Wednesday. 65.551 at oomparPd with
<5 5j 1B 4 in 1925. and on Thursdav.
f I 66.462 as compared with 65.506 in
I 1??s
--'J ft is confidently nrPdirtpd that th®
I ppak enrollment of thp aohoola thi*
‘ I tpitr will exceed 70.0n0, a mark never
I hpforp reached.
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