Falling enrolments, high fees threaten viability of Sydney’s Jewish schools | lucy_carroll
Falling enrolments and soaring fees will threaten the viability of Sydney’s Jewish schools as families are squeezed out of the private system, a review led by businessman David Gonski has found.
“Some people feel that the additional cost [of a private school] isn’t warranted because they might be able to get enough religious education elsewhere,” said Gonski, who led a landmark review into school funding. “Families are struggling to afford the cost of a Jewish independent private school education ... and increasingly need to decide between housing or school education,” the report said.Jewish students are increasingly attending public primary schools, with 50 per cent attending in 2016, up from about 38 per cent in 2006.
“High levels of fee assistance [are] resulting in operating deficits and a heavy reliance on communal funding to maintain solvency,” the report said.
Gonski said that, while the review looked at multiple ideas and potential solutions, “we didn’t prescribe. These were only suggestions. The people who run the schools should be in charge of running them.”Phil Roberts, principal at Mount Sinai College, said parents who send their children to private primary schools were increasingly finding there was no way they could afford private high school fees.
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