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From Sixteen Students to Twenty Two Countries

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

The Baha'i community's own Baha'i World, Volume XVI, covering 1973 to 1976, records that New Era High School had by then grown to enrol more than 370 children from twenty two countries, studying from kindergarten through the higher secondary level, with a teaching staff that had grown from three in the early days to more than sixty, both Baha'i and non-Baha'i.

That growth from sixteen founding students to an internationally drawn student body in three decades describes a genuine expansion in scale and reach, not merely in numbers: a school serving twenty two countries' worth of families had become something closer to an international institution than the small local hostel it began as in 1945, run by a staff that had itself grown twentyfold over the same period.

The school marked its 80th anniversary on 1 August 2025, continuing to operate today. The published 1976 enrollment figures are the most detailed scale data recorded here; the school's present day enrollment, staff size and country count as of its 80th anniversary are not separately published in the sources available to this entry.

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Source The Baha'i World, Volume XVI (1973-1976): The History of New Era High SchoolThe Baha'i World Centre, under the supervision of the Universal House of Justice
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The Baha'i World, Volume XVI (1973-1976): The History of New Era High School
The Baha'i World Centre, under the supervision of the Universal House of Justice, Baha'i World Centre, Haifa, 1978View the Source
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