Claim: In 1925 Hamtramck Public Schools had 7,526 students and most classrooms had 45 students per room.
Evidence: The public schools typically had 45 students per classroom while the parochial schools in Hamtramck had 70 students per classroom. In 1925, of the school district's 7,526 students, about 5,400 were ethnic Polish. By the mid-1920s, of the school-attending children in Hamtramck 66% attended public schools.