Where do New York’s
Jewish kids go to school?
Public, private or Jewish
Analysis by David Pollock based on data from:
Survey question
For each child 6-17 in the surveyed household the
following question was asked:
 What type of school is your going to on a
fulltime basis?
Respondents were read the following list of
options:




Full-time Jewish All-Day School
Public School
Private School, Not Jewish
At Home, Full-time Schooling
Education: Jewish or secular?




Slightly more than half of the
Jewish children (53%) in the
eight-county area go to Jewish
schools.
Two-out-of-three NYC, 26% of
Long Island and 26% or
Westchester Jewish children
attend Jewish schools.
Most Long Island (71%) and
Westchester (68%) Jewish
children attend public schools.
Almost 8% of NYC Jewish
children go to private, nonJewish schools.
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
0
NYC
Long Island Westchester
Private
8,200
500
500
Public
26,400
27,700
11,100
Jewish
72,400
10,200
4,200
School Choice by county
Full-time
Public
Jewish School School
Regional
Eight-county region
New York City
Counties
Bronx
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens
Staten Island
Nassau
Suffolk
Westchester
Private
School
(not
Jewish)
86,900
54%
72,400
68%
65,300
40%
26,400
25%
9,100
6%
8,200
8%
2,200
62%
58,000
83%
3,300
30%
7,900
44%
1,000
23%
9,900
34%
300
3%
4,300
27%
1,100
31%
9,800
14%
2,800
25%
9,500
53%
3,300
76%
18,600
64%
9,100
96%
11,100
70%
270
8%
2,400
3%
5,000
45%
460
3%
50
1%
375
1%
125
1%
500
3%
Total
Students
(6-18
years)
161,300
107,000
3,570
70,200
11,100
17,860
4,350
28,875
9,525
15,900
School choice by selected communities
Full-time Jewish
School
Public
School
Private
School
(not
Jewish)
Total
Students (618 years)
Selected
Communities
Brooklyn Bensonhurst/Gravesend
Borough Park
Brooklyn Heights/Park Slope
Canarsie/Flatlands
Coney Island/Brighton Beach
Crown Heights
Flatbush/Midwood/Kensington
Kingsbay/Madison
Williamsburg
Residual
Manhattan Chelsea/Gramercy
Lower Manhattan
Upper East Side
Upper West Side
Washington Heights
Residual
2,400
59%
17,800
96%
260
13%
50
2%
400
19%
3,800
100%
14,500
92%
2,800
78%
15,800
98%
400
21%
200
13%
600
36%
200
6%
1,650
48%
500
100%
160
18%
1,700
41%
700
4%
500
24%
2,300
98%
1,550
74%
0
0%
900
6%
800
22%
280
2%
1,000
53%
500
33%
600
36%
500
15%
600
17%
0
0%
725
82%
0
0%
0
0%
1,300
63%
0
0%
150
7%
0
0%
400
3%
4,100
18,500
2,060
2,350
2,100
3,800
15,800
3,600
0%
0
0%
500
26%
800
53%
450
27%
2,550
78%
1,200
35%
0
0%
0
0%
16,080
1,900
1,500
1,650
3,250
3,450
500
885
From Appendix B:
A Note on Methodology (p. 335)
It is not feasible to adjust the Jewish education data for each of the Jewisharea profiles given the smaller numbers of interviews in small areas
compared with counties. One can assume that in every Jewish area,
the percentage of children in day school is less than the percentage
presented in the Geographic Profile, however, it is extremely unlikely
that the difference is greater than 10% in any one area.
In general, the Jewish education data for small Jewish areas (below the
county level) need to be treated with some caution. The higher the
percentage of households with children 17 and under, the greater one’s
comfort level with this data. In small areas where the percentage of
households with children 17 and under is relatively high or where the
overall number of interviews is relatively high (even if the percentage of
children is low), one can be reasonably confident that the data are
usable. For example, one should not rely on the Jewish education data
for Northeast Bronx where only 10% of the households include a child
17 or under (second lowest rank) and where there are only an
estimated 8,200 households (the lowest rank).