Some 18,000 boys and girls attended a variety of Jewish schools in Philadelphia last year, it was announced here today as the new school year began.
Congregational schools–Conservative, Reform and Orthodox–had an enrollment of 13,466, while non-congregational communally supported schools educated 3,139 other children. Unaffiliated schools had an enrollment of 1,102, and pre-school children receiving education in Jewish institutions numbered about 250. The total of 17, $57 was a 10 percent increase over enrollment for the year before.
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