Zionist/Jewish Schools in Palestine before Nakba: Table 11 showing the Total Expenditure of The Hebrew Public System Analyzed By Types of Schools in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 660. Chapter XVI: Social Services : Section 2: Description of Education Systems

CHAPTER XVI.

Table 11.

TOTAL EXPENDITURE OF THE HEBREW PUBLIC SYSTEM ANALYSED BY TYPES OF SCHOOLS.

Types of schools No. of No. of No. or Expenditure
school teachers pupils
]P-.--
Kindergartens 233 308 8,485 80,000
Elementary schools 2Hi 1,638 49,181 500,000
Secondary schools 25 528 7,846 170,000
Vocational schools 5 47 603 20,000
Training colleges 5 94 624 20,000
Central expenditure
(administration, etc.) 30,000
483 2,615 66,739 820,000


Precise figures for 1943/44 are not available, but the total expenditure is estimated at close on £P.1,000,000, of which about 30% was in respect of Compensatory Allowances. The distribution of expenditure among the various controlling authorities on the one hand, and among the various types of schools on the other, was substantially the same as in 1942/43.

Table 18 shows, as explained above, the total expenditure of the Hebrew Public System analysed by controlling authorities and sources of revenue.

Other Jewish schools.

88. In addition to the schools of the Hebrew Public System, there are a number of schools under private or charitable ownership. Prominent among these is the Evelina de Rothschild for girls in Jerusalem , maintained by the Anglo-Jewish Association with 410 pupils; this is the only Jewish school in which English

is the principal language of instruction. '

The Alliance Israelite Universelle maintains 8 elementary schools with 3,816 pupils, the principal language of instruction being French, and an Agricultural School (boarding) with 468 pupils. These schools were cut off from their headquarters in France during the War, and were maintained by Government with the help of a special grant which amounted in the financial year 1944/45 to £P.12,480.
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* The figures arc partly conjectural and are given only to the nearest £P.10,000.

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