Education in Israel: Statistics on Primary Education

	1948/49	1959/60	1969/70	1979/80	1989/90	1999/00	2009/10	2012/13
Hebrew Education
Primary Schools	467	1,149	1,235	1,261	1,204	1,720	1,889	1,999
Special Schools	--	352	284	214	188	160	199	203
Arab Education
Primary Schools	45	138	207	294	309	355	479	519
Special Schools	--	1	12	18	21	46	58	63
Total	512	1,640	1,738	1,787	1,722	2,281	2,625	2,784

	1948/49	1959/60	1969/70	1979/80	1989/90	1999/00	2009/10	2012/13
Hebrew Education
Primary Schools	91,133	357,654	375,534	424,173	473,189	549,558	627,210	670,207
Special Schools	--	17,410	18,820	12,214	13,279	9,082	10,260	10,880
Arab Education
Primary Schools	9,991	36,652	85,094	121,101	138,482	179,446	243,979	247,237
Special Schools	--	77	355	884	1,118	2,194	3,236	3,489
Total	101,124	411,793	479,803	558,372	629,068	740,280	884,685	931,813

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Sources: Central Bureau of Statistics