page_title: Bat Yam
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Bat Yam / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Tzikva Brot, mayor of Bat Yam, playing with children at a Bat Yam kindergarten
context_page_description: Bat Yam is a city located on Israel's Mediterranean Sea coast, on the central coastal strip just south of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area and the Tel Aviv District. In 2020, it had a population of 160,000.
context_section_description: In 2008, the Weitzman-Albert Education Initiative headed by Jane Gershon, wife of fashion shoe designer Stuart Weitzman invested over $2 million in Bat Yam's Harel Elementary School, which received a top Education Ministry award for academic achievement and immigrant integration.
  In 2017, the percentage of high school students eligible for a bagrut matriculation certificate reached 86.3%, compared to the 68.2% national average. The number of high school students doing a five-point exam in mathematics is also on the rise thanks to a program inaugurated in 2015 in cooperation with the Donald J. Trump Foundation and Alliance Israélite Universelle to encourage excellence in math.
caption: Bat Yam mayor Tzvika Brot at local kindergarten
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