A total of 48,000 students, an increase of nearly 3 percent, will attend Hebrew Day Schools in the New York Metropolitan area, which includes all of the five boroughs as well as Nassau and Westchester counties. These schools, offering a combined program of religious and secular studies, open their regular sessions on Monday.
Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, national director of Torah Umesorah, National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, reported that five new schools were established during the past summer, bringing the number of schools in the New York Metropolitan area to 159. Of these, 105 are elementary schools and 54 provide a high school educational program. The high school enrollment has, for the first time, gone over the 10,000 mark.
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