 The first major attempt to improve the situation was made by a Jeddah merchant, Muhammad ʿAlī Zaynal Riḍā, who founded the Madrasat al-Falāḥ in Makkah in 1911–12 that cost £400,000.The school system in Makkah has many public and private schools for both males and females.As of 2005, there were 532 public and private schools for males and another 681 public and private schools for female students.