Nearly 60,000 pupils are enrolled in 517 organized Jewish schools here, it was disclosed in a statistical report published today by the Jewish Education Committee of New York.
The report accounts for 361 Talmud Torahs and Hebrew Schools, 31 all-day Yeshivoths, 36 Sunday schools and 89 Yiddish schools. There are 36,355 pupils enrolled in the Talmud Torahs and Hebrew Schools and 6,270 in the Yeshivoth. In the Sunday-schools and in other schools where sessions are held only once a week, there are about 12,000 pupils, and in the Yiddish schools there are about 5,000 students. The report does not include the pupils in the small “chedarim” and in certain small schools, as well as the children who receive private instruction.
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