The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1946-09-01
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SCHOOL ENROLMENT


schools at 10000 100000 in the
elementary schools and 10000 in the
high schools.) The estimate was
based on reported enrolment in 70
large cities. Two years later, Mr..
Ben Rosen raised this estimate to
100000. The present estimate,
which is based on returns from l5o
communities, places the number OF
children enrolled in all Jewish
schools, Sunday and weekday, ele-
nentary and secondary, at 23l,O20.
The number is probably larger
since the high school and parochial
school registrations included in the
above figure covers only cities
which reported such data. The
above total may be broken down as
follows:
The Sunday school enrolment in
1856 was 12o,36s. This was cal
culated on the basis of returns from
l35 cities which reported an aggre-
gate enrolment of 60,028 pupils;
and on estimates for the unreported
communities based on a pattern OF
registration found in 129 communi-
ties outside the large metropolitan
certers. For estimating the enroll
ment in the Jewish weekday schools
the same technique was used.
Ninety-four communities reported
an aggregate registration of 5000.
Including the unreported commun-
tiles, the total enrolment in the
Jewish weekday schools of the
country was 1865.
The prevailing notion that most
OF the weekday afternoon schools
are of the two or three-day-a-week
type, is not borne out by the facts
gathered for this survey. OF. POO
weekday afternoon schools, distrib-
uted over 81 communities, and re-
porting on the number of sessions
their schools meet per week, SO
schools or 297 per cent conducted
five sessions a week, 70 or 200 per
cent met four times week, II or
23.9 per cent three times and SO
or 1916 per cent twice per week.
Similarly, the largest enrolment
was claimed by the more intensive
type OF school. Thus, the five-day-
a-week school claimed 9,985 stud
ents or 36.2 per cent OF the total
weekday school enrolment in the
90 cities, the four-day-a-week
schools had 1928 students or 26.5
per cent of the enrolment. the
three-day-a-week school 8,165 or
29.6 per cent of the enrolment.
INCREASED ENROLMENT
IN SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Sunday school enrolment increas-
ed in 1945-46 in most cities through
out the country. if the polled sample
of 90 cities is a fair indication of
the situation in general. OF the 90
cities which reported enrolment
both for 1945-46 and 1944-45, sixty
one communities or $50 per cent re-
ported increases: IL or 1911 per cent
declines. and II indicated no change.
In New York the registration in
the Reform Sunday schools, accord
ing to the report of the New York
Federation of Reform Synagogues,
has increased from 1925 in 1o45, to
1922 in 1916, an increase of 7.3 per
cent. For the ninety polled cities
the increase was only So per cent.
The weekday school enrolment
has increased more than seven per
cent the past year according to the
70 cities which have reported en-
rollment for the years 1945-46 and
1o44-45. The afternoon schools of
types participated in the increase.
The two-day-a-week schools, how
ever, claimed the largest proper
tionate increase of 23.7 per cent,
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