DETROIT JEWISH SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS
First figure in each category is for '89-'90 school year. Second figure is for '90-'91.
ENROLLMENT TOTALS
SCHOOLS
2500
ORTHODOX
= 500
students
2000
1500
1000
500
0
90 91
Nursery
2500
90 91
K-8
CONSERVATIVE
90 91
9-12
= 500
students
2000
1500
1000
500
0
90 91
Nursery
90 91
K-8
2500
2000
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been asked for its input. The
commission is also meeting
with Detroit's rabbis and
cantors, lay leaders, school
representatives, teachers,
parents and students.
"The study is trying to find
out how we can best educate
all Jewish children in the
metropolitan Detroit area,"
says Robert M. Lask,
educators council president
and educational director at
Temple Beth El. "But you
don't want to take from
other programs."
He advocates funding for
everyone without hurting
established institutions.
dat Shalom Synagogue,
with 545 students, and
Congregation Beth
Achim, with 120, house the
bulk of the United Hebrew
Schools' enrollment. But the
two programs are dissimilar
in one aspect:
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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1991
Some 67 percent of Adat
Shalom's enrollment are the
children of Adat Shalom
members. Ten percent of
Beth Achim's enrollment —
12 students — are children
of members.
These statistics are a
major factor in the two syn-
agogues' differing ap-
proaches to the possibility
that they will have to estab-
lish their own schools if the
Giles Commission recom-
mends, and the Federation
decides, to eliminate UHS
elementary classes.
At Beth Achim, 51 of the
120 students pay full tuition.
The school was running a
deficit of $64,000 for 1990-91
— a figure that is made up
through Federation's alloca-
tion to the Agency for Jew-
ish Education.
"That $64,000 would be
approximately 15 percent of
the synagogue's budget,"
says Beth Achim Rabbi Mar-
I
500
0
90 91
Nursery
2500
90 91
K-8
OTHER
ORTHODOX
Akiva
Darchei Torah
Lubavitch Center
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
Beth Jacob for Girls
Yeshiva Gedolah
49 58
19 24
35 25
109 42
N/A
N/A
Total
212
SCHOOLS
NURSERY
'90 '91
CONSERVATIVE
Agency for Jewish
Education
Beth Achim UHS
B'nai Israel UHS
Community H. S.
UHS special ed.
Adat Shalom UHS
Adat Shalom Nursery
Beth Abraham
Hillel Moses
Beth Shalom
B'nai Moshe nursery
Hillel
Shaarey Zedek
205 219
34 70
100 110
209 280
218 222
N/A
149 766
29 35
88 80
52 51
901 169 166
9-12
K-8
'90 '91 '90 '91
45 47
139 120
67 66
142 145
24 25
548 545
326
70 75
149 155
159 169
23 10
4 —
533 557
352 334
69 92
30 6
209 195
Total
354* 649 1971
SCHOOLS
NURSERY
'90 '91
1971 238 247
9-12
K-8
'90 '91 '90 '91
REFORM
Beth El
Beth Isaac of Trenton
Emanu-El
Kol Ami
Shir Shalom
Shir Tikvah
Temple Israel
Yavneh Academy
1500
1000
9-12
K-8
'90 '91 '90 '91
90 91
9-12
= 500
students
REFORM
NURSERY
'90 '91
130 160
215 166
40 10
8 11
— 4
275 332
Total
668
SCHOOLS
NURSERY
'90 '91
486 490
17
348 333
230 257
305 253
— 96
940 956
12 14
683 2321
86 72
33 44
110 23
52 36
15 23
253 260
2415 549 458
90 91
9-12
= 500
students
1500
OTHER
Birmingham Temple
Jewish Parents Inst.
Workmen's Circle
1000
Total
2000
10 —
5 4
65 61
80
K-8
9-12
'90 '91 '90 '91
89 85
126 102
30 30
65 245
— 17
2 9
217 2
26
500
0
rr
90 91
Nursery
90 91
K-8
90 91
9-12
NURSERY
'90 '91
K-8
9-12
'90 '91 '90 '91
DETROIT TOTALS' 1310* 1546 5303 5505 1 958 897
* = does not include Adat Shalom Nursery