# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S240
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

id'the latter part of the table consti
jiiments and teacher demand up to 1955, based on actual statis-
tics of child Baptisms. Child Baptisms are the nearest data we have
to indicate the birth rate in our Synod, and they form the most .
reliable basis for prognosticating. future enrollments and teachers

needed.

Years o-vear Poe Kinderperen to oth Gr. of Bap’, Instractors
, 271,350 76,277 28.1* 2,342
roca a re 78,254 291 = 2'373
193340 ___... 280,608 82,029 29,2 2,514
1934-41 289,249 ---— 87,859 30.3 2,806
193542 __.... 300,606 92,487 30.7 2,964
Bene re. Estimated Enrollment oe Cet ins an eral
1936-43 __ 315,650 1949 97,220 30.8 3,106
1937—44 ___ 328,851 1950 __. -.- 101,615 30.9 3,246
198845 ___ 341,072 1951 ___ -- 105,732 31 3,378
1938-46 358,851 1952 __. -- 111,244 31 3,554
19047 384,989 1953 119,347 31 3,813
194148 409,731 wevceneeee 127,017 31 4,057
194249 429,862 (’49 est.) 1955 133,257 31 4,257
* Note the ascending rate of percentage. This Means that while
Baptisms show a large and constant increase, school enrollments increased

centage was allowed to rise to 31 and was then arbitrarily kept at that

indergartens, which are comparatively few, and 9th 8rades,

are rare, were included in the enrollment figures (Col. 2) because
teachers must be furnished for them as well as the other 8rades,