Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060306/SCHOOLS/603060312/1026

On March 6, 2006 The Detroit News reported, "The Makki-Hammoud family [whose daughter Hannah attends the private Muslim American Youth Academy] represents a growing trend across Metro Detroit. Jews and Muslims are increasingly eschewing public education for private schools that will steep their children in the traditions of their religion -- and allow them to grow up with, meet and maybe marry someone of the same faith... Attendance at the Muslim American Youth Academy in Dearborn has nearly tripled from seven years ago, and now there's a waiting list. Yeshivas Darchei Torah and Akiva Hebrew Day School, both Orthodox Jewish schools in Southfield, have had double-digit increases in the past five years. The area's newest Jewish school, the Jewish Academy of Metro Detroit in West Bloomfield, has gone from 52 students to 176 in its six years. There are about 96,000 Jews in Metro Detroit, according to the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. The Glenmary Research Center says there are more than 61,000 Muslims in the area, but other estimates put the number much higher... Catholic schools still top the list of all private religious schools in the United States, with more than 8,000 schools in 2002. But Jewish and Muslim schools are increasing nationwide, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, whose most recent statistics reflect 2002. The number of Jewish schools increased from 658 in 1991 to 730 in 2002, while Muslim schools showed a more dramatic increase, from 44 in 1991 to 188 in 2002."