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• • • i {1. t The Committee, appointed in June, 1934, to make a study of the future needs for High School accommodations, has included in its report the four following items: • • A. Need for Increased High School Accommodations. B. Ways of Relieving the Crowded Conditions. C. Problems in,Selection of Future Building Site. . D. Recommendations. A. Need for Increased High School Accommodations • _ The Annual Report of the School Committee for 1934 presents-much• } information relative to the present needs of the Senior High School. The enrollment October, 1934 in the Junior High School was 607 and the enrollment in the Senior High School was 637 making a total of 1244 • pupils in the entire building. Of this total enrollment 92 were from Bedford and 118 were from Burlington. The following tables show the estimated enrollments for the Junior • High School and the Senior High School for the next six years: - Junior High School Year Enrollment Pupils from • Burlington 1935-1936 615 42 1936-1937 638 58 • 1937-1938 650 42 • 1938-1939 689 56 1939-1940 711 61 1940-1941 733 40 In arriving at these estimates the present enrollment in the lower grades were considered. Senior High School . Year Enrollment Pupils from Pupils from : Bedford Burlington 1935-1936 659 100• 1 1936-1937 704 118 97 1937-1938 . 747 125 • 119 1938-1939 757 128 125 • 1939-1940 745 114 137 • 1940-1941 '782 107 140 In making these estimates we have deducted four percent from the present enrollment of each class. This has been the average decrease over x the past few years. Post-graduates have not been included, because their number is most uncertain. I Combined Junior and Senior High Schools ' Year • Enrollment • Pupils from Pupils from Bedford Burlington 1935-1936 1274 - 100 129 1936-1937 '1342 118 155 • 1937-1938 • 1397 125 .. 161 1938-1939 1446 128 181 1939-1940 1456 114 198. • 1940-1941 1515 ' • . 107 180 3 . . . 1