and three rooms in the basement, one now used as a classroom and another as a cooking room, with a small room for sewing. There is also a vacant room in the basement, which could be used as a shop. The enrollment is now 410 pupils, and a 20 per cent increase in five years would make 492 pupils, or 12 classes to provide for. Under the work-study-play plan six classrooms would be needed, and there should be four special rooms-for example, one manualtraining shop, one nature-study room, one cooking room, and one drawing room. This makes a total of 10 units, but there are already 11 rooms in the building. The eleventh room could be used for a library if so desired, or a music room, or a teachers' rest room. Therefore, the only thing to provide for in this school is a portable auditorium and gymnasium, $7,000. There is plenty of space on the grounds for the erection of these two units. It will be necessary, however, to have equipment for the boys' shop, $2,000, and for the cooking room, $3,000. Furthermore, an additional item of $5,000 should be provided for repairs around the building, for the toilets, etc., and for equipment for the playground. The total cost for this school under the work-study-play plan would be as follows: Under the traditional plan it would be necessary to have 6 additional portable classrooms at a cost of $1,000 each, which would make the total cost under the traditional plan $23,000. 4. College Avenue School. This school is also housed in a comparatively new building of 13 rooms. As a permanent proposition it would be most undesirable to keep two small buildings like the College Avenue and Childs Street Schools, but inasmuch as the amount available in the bond issue is so limited, it will be necessary to use this building for the time being, and there is ample room in it if the school is organized on the work-study-play plan. The present enrollment is 429 pupils. Make it into a 12-class school. There has been practically no increase in the past 10 years, due to the fact that the children have been transferred to the Childs Street School; under the work-study-play plan it would be necessary to have 6 rooms and 4 special rooms, 1 manual training shop, 1 nature study room, 1 cooking room, and 1 drawing room, or a total of 10 units. But this building has 13 rooms. Therefore, 10 of them can be used for the classrooms and special rooms and the partitions between the cooking room and the 2 rooms on either side of it on the Exhibit C for plan of building.) The equipment would be $8,500, making the total cost of the building $66,460. It is possible to secure a portable auditorium 30 by 60 feet, fully equipped with opera chairs and stage, for $3,500," and a portable gymnasium for the same amount. These units are eminently satisfactory, well lighted, well heated, and well adapted to the purposes for which they are built. The total cost, then, for Baxter School would be $73,460. Under the traditional plan, four additional rooms would be needed at a cost of $40,000, which, with $2,000 for additional equipment, makes a total of $42,000, or a grand total, under the traditional plan, of $115,460, which would be prohibitive with the funds available in the present bond issue. 2. A new building for Oconee School. The enrollment to be provided for in this school is as follows: As was pointed out in the permanent building program, six classrooms would be needed under the work-study-play plan. The school should also have one auditorium, one gymnasium, a nature study room, manual-training room, and drawing room. This makes 10 units. There are available in the existing building 6 classrooms. The addition proposed would be added at the rear of the building, after the two rear classrooms had been torn down. This building would contain six units, an auditorium, and gymnasium. The whole of this addition with the exception of the auditorium and gymnasium could be erected with the funds available in the present bond issue. The cost of the building minus the gymnasium and auditorium would be $45,000 and the equipment $7,500, making a total cost of $52,500. It would be necessary to erect a portable auditorium for $3,500 and a portable gymnasium for the same amount, making a total cost for this school of $59,500. The only difference from the plan proposed in the permanent building program would be that the auditorium and gymnasium would be in portable buildings for the present. Under the traditional plan six more classrooms would be needed, $60.000, with $3.000 for equipment, making $63,000, or a total of $122.500. 3. Childs Street School.-This school is now housed in a comparatively new school building, fairly modern. It has eight classrooms 1 Cost of portable auditorium $1,800, foundation and cost of erection $700, installation of electric lights, plumbing, and heating, approximately $1,000. and three rooms in the basement, one now used as a classroom and another as a cooking room, with a small room for sewing. There is also a vacant room in the basement, which could be used as a shop. The enrollment is now 410 pupils, and a 20 per cent increase in five years would make 492 pupils, or 12 classes to provide for. Under the work-study-play plan six classrooms would be needed, and there should be four special rooms-for example, one manualtraining shop, one nature-study room, one cooking room, and one drawing room. This makes a total of 10 units, but there are already 11 rooms in the building. The eleventh room could be used for a library if so desired, or a music room, or a teachers' rest room. Therefore, the only thing to provide for in this school is a portable auditorium and gymnasium, $7,000. There is plenty of space on the grounds for the erection of these two units. It will be necessary, however, to have equipment for the boys' shop, $2,000, and for the cooking room, $3,000. Furthermore, an additional item of $5,000 should be provided for repairs around the building, for the toilets, etc., and for equipment for the playground. The total cost for this school under the work-study-play plan would be as follows: Under the traditional plan it would be necessary to have 6 additional portable classrooms at a cost of $1,000 each, which would make the total cost under the traditional plan $23,000. 4. College Avenue School. This school is also housed in a comparatively new building of 13 rooms. As a permanent proposition it would be most undesirable to keep two small buildings like the Collego Avenue and Childs Street Schools, but inasmuch as the amount available in the bond issue is so limited, it will be necessary to use this building for the time being, and there is ample room in it if the school is organized on the work-study-play plan. The present enrollment is 429 pupils. Make it into a 12-class school. There has been practically no increase in the past 10 years, due to the fact that the children have been transferred to the Childs Street School; under the work-study-play plan it would be necessary to have 6 rooms and 4 special rooms, 1 manual training shop, 1 nature study room, 1 cooking room, and 1 drawing room, or a total of 10 units. But this building has 13 rooms. Therefore, 10 of them can be used for the classrooms and special rooms and the partitions between the cooking room and the 2 rooms on either side of it on the second floor can be torn out and these 3 rooms made into an auditorium. A portable gymnasium should be put up on the grounds to the north of the building. Additional equipment will be needed and the additional cost will be as follows: Under the traditional plan 6 more classrooms would be needed, $6,000, and there is no space on the school grounds on which to erect them. The total cost would be $17,500. 5. Nantahala School. This district needs not only adequate classroom facilities but a school plant which will be a social center for the neighborhood. It needs particularly an auditorium for meetings, plays, etc., and a gymnasium for recreation in the evening as well as in the day. But the school is too small to justify the erection of a permanent building now, in view of the fact that in a permanent building program Nantahala should be combined with Childs and College Avenue and the seventh and eighth grades of Baxter in a new building on Chase Street. It is important, however, that the children in these schools, pending the erection of such a building, should have facilities for shops, nature study rooms, auditoriums, and gymnasiums, and it is possible to provide such facilities by the addition of portable units equipped for these activities. The net enrollment at present is 220. Allowing for 14 per cent increase in five years, at which time a permanent building program should be carried out, there are 250 children, or eight classes, to provide for. Four classrooms and four special rooms would be sufficient. At present there are available six rooms, i. e., counting as one the two rooms that were originally made out of one. Four of these rooms could be used as classrooms, one could be used as a nature study room, and one as a drawing room. It would then be necessary to provide portable buildings for the following units: Under the traditional plan four more classrooms would be needed, $4,000, making a total cost of $18,000. About $5,000 would be needed for additional land under the work-study-play plan and $20,000 under the traditional plan. NEGRO SCHOOLS. Two alternate plans are submitted for the Negro schools. The first, which would be by far the most economical in the long run, has been worked out on the basis of providing for two Negro schools, one at East Athens and one on the present High and Industrial School site. This latter school would be a consolidation of the High and Industrial, West Athens, and Newtown Schools, and it is proposed that the first floor of the new building recommended in the permanent building program be erected now to accommodate these pupils. The second plan is worked out on the basis of providing for three Negro schools-one at East Athens, one at West Athens, and one at the High and Industrial, which would combine the High and Industrial and. Newtown Schools. PLAN 1. 1. A new building for the High and Industrial School and West Athens and Newtown Schools.-The enrollment to be provided for in these three schools is as follows: High and Industrial: High school... Newtown.... West Athens, 1920. Total...... Increase in 10 years (39 per cent)..... Increase in enrollment in West Athens, due to extension of territory Total (in 29 classes). 111 163 182 291 747 290 109 1, 146 Over a 10-year period this should be counted as a 1,200 pupil, or a 30 class school, but the actual number to be provided for at present would be 856 pupils, of whom 745, or 20 classes, are elementary school pupils. It will be necessary, then, to provide 4 rooms for highschool pupils-for English, mathematics, Latin, and history-and 10 classrooms under the work-study-play plan for the 20 elementary classes. The present building has 8 classrooms and 1 small room in the basement used as a shop. There is also an additional building with a cooking room and sewing room. By erecting the outer perimeter of the first floor of the proposed new building for this school (see diagram of building in Exhibit A), 12 permanent rooms would be provided, which could be used either as classrooms or as shops. These 12 rooms, with the 11 already available, would make 23 units. Fourteen of these would have to be used as classrooms, as indicated above. This would leave the shop in the basement of the present building, the present cooking and sewing room, and six units in the new building which would be used for special activities-one for |