secondary schools within three weeks.

Ever since new Education Minister Jerome Dill announced that he will be reviewing the number of students proposed for the senior school at Prospect, speculation has increased about whether Government would expand the number of senior schools from two to three.

Mr. Dill last month said the only problem the public seemed to have with Government's public school reform plans was the fact that some 1,200 students would be placed at Prospect and he promised a review of that plan.

Government could either increase the number of senior schools from two or expand its redevelopment plans for Berkeley Institute as the other senior school, making it more like the school at Prospect.

It is understood that Government officials have considered turning the former Roger B. Chaffee school -- now St. George's Secondary -- into a senior school and reducing the number of middle schools. But sources said yesterday that it was likely to remain a middle school.

And Mr. Dill vehemently denied the idea of reducing the number of middle schools.

"We can't do that,'' he said. "Where would we put the additional people?'' He said he would be able to reveal Government's plans for the senior secondary level "over the next three weeks''.