What Is the Ideal Balance of Age Groups in a Growing Sunday School?

Thursday 14th June, 2007
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I received some interesting statistics today. The table below contains the averages of Sunday School enrollment by age group for the six state conventions in Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (GOs=general officers and OOBS=other ongoing Bible study):

Age Group Enrollment % of Total
Total
2,253,676
 
<6
207,427
9.2%
6-11
264,737
11.7%
12-17
267,515
11.9%
18-24
141,472
6.3%
25-34
216,255
9.6%
35-54
410,837
18.2%
55-64
280,554
12.4%
>65
326,530
14.5%
GOs
37,604
1.7%
OOBS
100,745
4.5%


How does your Sunday School compare? I plan to do additional research to see if statistics vary by church size, church location, community growth, or church growth. Allow me to do a little informal research first. Check out your own statistics and compare them? Then press the comments button below or e-mail me to let me know how close your Sunday School age group percentages are to those above.

In advance of doing further research, I would imagine that the demographics of the community would play into the statistics for the church. But I wonder if a growing church will tend to have a different distribution of preschoolers, children, youth, and young adults. What do you think I'll discover? Stay tuned, and I'll let you know.

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