# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S106
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106 Elementary Education

Schools

Early Statistics.—The impression prevails that the schools sus
tained extremely heavy losses during and immediately after th
World War. This is decidedly not the case. Before 1918, and t
some extent up to 1921 and later, all conceivable forms of instructio:
or agency were reported as “parochial schools,” including Satur.
day- and summer-schools, confirmation instruction, or even th:

was credited with 260 “parochial schools” in 1917 was found to have
only 118 regular schools and 142 other forms recorded as schools.
Since 1918 the revised statistical questionnaires have brought about
a more exact classification of schools and part-time agencies of re-
ligious instruction. The corrected figures reveal that there has
been a wholesome growth in the number of full-time schools in
Synod. Since 1917—21 the number of schools has increased from
1,277 to 1,370 in 1927 and to 1,380 in 1936.

Statistics for the Last Five Years
1932 1933 1934 1935 1936

Number of schools 1,377 1,347 1,360 1,368 1,380
Enrolment ow ---. 79,204 78596 78,681 77,667 76,811
Teachers 0. stone 1,362 1,289 1,289 1,297 1,285
Woman Teachers see 892 348 330 327 349
Pastors Teaching __. see 349 341 339 319 329
Students 00 settee 128 130* 100* 115* 135+
Candidates ve sceseeateaeceenaeee 52 173 222 216 214

* Including from 53 to 57 lay teachers in Brazil
t Including 69 lay teachers in Brazil

School Extension Fund. — The Cleveland convention in 1935
resolved:

tailed working-plan be submitted to the next convention.” (Proceed-
ings, p. 101, 7.)