OJPAC on Tuesday released statistics it obtained from the New York State Education Department showing massive increases in the number of students enrolled in yeshivos over the past 20 years.
In September 2001, yeshivos had fewer than 100,000 students, yet by September 2021, those numbers rose to more than 160,000 – a staggering 60% increase. That jump is largely being attributed to a 200% increase in Yeshiva students in Orange County and a 144% increase in Rockland County – the counties of Kiryas Joel and Monsey, respectively.
In Brooklyn, the number of yeshiva enrollees grew by 46% over the past two decades, not quite as stunning as Orange and Rockland, but still quite impressive.
Over the past ten years, enrollment in yeshivos is up 63.2% in Rockland, 53.5% in Orange, 34.4% in Queens, 12.6% in Brooklyn, and 24.5% statewide.
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The Chazaq organization transferred over 1200 children from public school to Yeshiva over the past few years.
Really? Anyone with a calculator can tell that this is only a little more than 2% growth per year. Multiply 100,000 x 1.02 x 1.02 …. 20 times. Thats almost 150,000. How is 2% yearly growth that impressive? It’s 60% but over 20 YEARS
The growth virtually entirely comes from the Chasidishe communities. The young non-Chasidish families have largely moved from New York to Lakewood, NJ. The Litvishe Yeshivos in New York have rapidly shrunk over the last 10+ years.
How about lakewood? I bet lakewood beat all those numbers
And make sure they keep them away from the Democrats & their ideology or it will all be in vain.
With all due respect ….אל תפתח פה
it would be interesting to see what are the current numbers compared to 7 years ago .. as so many have moved to other states meaning if your child in the 6th grade has 20 kids in her class yet had 25 when she started in first means they only lost 1 kid a year but over 5-6 years its 20% which is a big number… kein yirbu
Tell the SED וכאשר יענו אתו כן ירבה וכן יפרץ
Beautiful. Let the kids marry younger will have more Yeshiva boys and girls and overrun the reform population. Make Orthodox Jews number one.