The number of Jewish children attending Jewish day schools here has increased almost eightfold in a fourteen-year period, it was revealed in the release of data by the Canadian Jewish Congress Research Program. The data also showed a widespread trend toward new areas of settlement in this city.
According to the CJC figures, 426 children attended Jewish day schools in 1941, as against 8,694 Jewish children in attendance at Protestant schools. In 1955, when a total of 17,494 Jewish children were attending school, 3,300 of them were enrolled at Jewish day schools, and the rest attended Protestant schools. Thus, while total Jewish school population was just short of having doubled, the shift to Jewish day schools showed a proportionately much greater increase. The report also made the point that while in 1941 all Jewish day schools were in older areas of settlement, 40.6 percent of Jewish children attending Jewish day schools in 1955 were attending institutions in the newer residential areas.
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