Table showing Distribution of Pupils Between Different Types of School in July, 1944 in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 637. Chapter XVI: Social Services : Section 2: Description of Education Systems : Table 1:

CHAPTER XVI.

On the Jewish side only the elementary schools can be reckoned as truly public. These schools are directly controlled by the Va'ad Leumi. The secondary schools and training colleges nominally subject themselves to the Va'ad Leumi but receive little support from public funds whether taxes or rates.

The following table shows the distribution of pupils between the different types of school in July, 1944 :*

Table 1.

ARAB:

Public schools, elementary and secondary:

Moslem 59,045

Christian 5.745

64,790

Private schools, elementary and secondary:

Moslem 17,815

Christian 22,013

39,828

Total Moslem Christian

76,SGO 27,758

104,618

HEBREW:

Public schools, elementary

Private schools, elementary and secondary

Gl,938 36,053

97,991

There were also 1,504 Jewish pupils in non-Jewish (Arab) private schools, giving a total Jewish school population of 99 ,495.

The term elementary is here used to include infant classes.

40. The Arab public system has been directly administered by Government with growing cooperation by local authorities. The Jewish public system has been Indirectly controlled by Government through a central Jewish authority. Down to 1932 this authority was the Palestine Zionist Executive, which represented world Jewry, and thereafter has been the General Council of the Jewish Religious Community in Palestine as established by rules made under the Religious Communities (Organisation) Ordinance of 1926)**. This authority is the Va' ad Leumi. Its administrative machinery is described further in paragraph 79 et seq.
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* Tables 12 to 16 show the distribution of pupils not by religion but by grades in the five categories, Public, Private Moslem, Private Christian, Va'ud Leumi and Private Jewish schools.

** Drayton, Vol. II, page 1292 and Vol. ill, page 2135.

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