B~ JliMIE C'lnNGTO,A'j The Shelby County Board of ~ation yesterday approved a request for $13 million in county school building. projects over the next two years, including four new schools and several school additions to meet enrollment increases. The request must be submitted to the Shelby County Court and federal court. Approval and funding of the projects plight mean that county government would have to provide about $70 million for Memphis city school system capital improvement projects. State law requires that county funding for schools be divided between the city and county school systems on an average daily attendance basis. In recent years the city-county attendance ratio has been about 85-15. For several years, the county has not had to share school construction funds with the city because of credits received from the city system for county schools which were annexed. However, about $4 million in county school building projects approved for this year apparently have about exhausted the credits, which stemmed primarily from annexations in the Whitehaven and Raleigh areas. In presenting the request to the school board yesterday, county schools Supt. Ward L. Harvey cited the rapid enrollment growth in Germantown, Southeast Shelby and other areas of the county. "We are going to be overcrowded in certain areas of the county over the next few years ~s far. as I can see,'! said Harvey, who said he IS also considering buying 10 additional portable classrooms to add to the 26 presently in use. . Harvey said Germantown High School was built to serve about 1,600 students but now has about 2,200 "with a prospect of about 3,000," . Over all, county school enrollment in- SChool Board Approves /~!