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 i 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: 26 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