Some time ago the Commissioner of Education was requested to offer advice in regard to the reorganization of the Francis Scott Key School, to meet more effectively the needs of its children and the adult population of that section, and to suggest plans for a building to be so constructed as to adapt it to the use of the school so reorganized. In order to secure the data necessary as a basis for recommendations for the reorganization and for plans of building, and to make an intelligent presentation of the matter to the school board, the author was asked to make a careful study of the condition and needs of the people and of that section of the city. The manuscript transmitted herewith contains a report of this study, together with recommendations for the reorganization of the school and the units which should be included in the new building. Appended are: (1) Comparison of teaching staff of proposed intermediate school with that of the upper grades in the present school; and (2) A proposed scheme for training technologists, executives, and engineers for the Baltimore Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. (Contains 17 tables, 2 figures, and 4 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]